> In the seven-day intensive VR program, participants experience scenes from daily life, as well as some more adventurous ones such as traveling to Paris or paragliding, for four hours each day. Facilitators ask them to process emotions that come from these scenes through various art exercises involving theater tactics, poetry, painting, etc.
More generally, if you believe in prison for public safety and not retribution, for people who need to be in solitary for others’ safety, what’s the alternative? Deterrence is also important but can be achieved in other ways.