This article is heavily filtered through multiple stages of observation and interpretation. And it’s hard to draw policy prescriptions from broad comparisons between different countries–we’re often told that we should adopt wholesale the policies of France or Sweden, or in this case Israel, and these prescriptions usually ignore at least some of the reasons we haven’t done that already. But I hope Rabbi Adlerstein’s article helps expand what we think is possible and desirable in prisons: Can religion inform society... Read more