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I understand your anger about this. I really do. Some people in my area of Italy spent sixty years pursuing a case against some SS members who committed atrocities here in World War II. We won the case, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the German government blocked extradition for so long that most of them died without paying any price at all, having lived out a normal life span with their families while our family members were taken from us too soon and after great suffering.
There has to be punishment or there is no deterrence.
I was speaking mainly in general terms about whether or not there should be attempts to rehabilitate prisoners while they are confined.
If this prosecutor is proposing that former ISIS members of whom it is known that they committed atrocities, or who were present in the ranks of that group for long enough that there is a presumption of that type of involvement, be allowed to return and released unsupervised (and with full benefits) into the general population, she should be removed from office.
I think any government is within its rights to refuse re-entry. Let them stay in Syria or Iraq and meet their fate.
I hope that she was speaking about some of the young people who went to the Near East and quickly repented and came back. Even then, their return agreement should require they spend time in a supervised environment for deprogramming and psychiatric help. When released they should be kept under surveillance.
I'd also add that there are indeed people who can't be rehabilitated, and the people who make decisions about sentencing, parole, etc., have to be hard eyed realists not naive idealists.
I think refusing re-entry to ISIS fighters is a good idea.
But most of them leave anonymous to Turkey and there they cross the boarder.
Most of them return anonymous. Some of them got 'fame' over there and they come back as refugee, with another identity.
What exactly they did over there, we don't know. What we know, they volunteered for an organisation with the purpose of terrorising and killing other people. We know what's in the mind of these people and to what ideology they adhere.
I don't know the details of the plan of this lady who is responsable for the integration of Jihady fighters. She wants to offer free housing, I don't think prison or any other punishment is involved. I don't think she has the right to speak or decide in the name of the victims of ISIS.
I don't know if serious and decisive studies have been done about rehabilitation.
I think we don't know whether it works or not. There are not even reliable statistics to compare crime rates between two countries, because in every country statistics are made diffenently.
If we should believe statistics, Sweden has a very big problem with rape, compared to other countries, but I don't believe that is the case.
I guess rehabilitation can work for small criminals who act out of necessity or impulse or lost chances.
But I doubt it can work for people who make the free choice to join organistations like ISIS.
I'm afraid rehabilitation programs involve a lot of improvisation and wishful thinking.
It certainly seems the case with this lady who seems to have gotten some kind of political mandate without the proper competences but very biased by ideology.
That is at least the impression I get when I read this article.