Allowing prisoners limited mobilization may better prepare them for release than suppressing it

Evidence

It is peculiar but possibly true that encouraging prisoners to mobilize rather than blocking their mobilization would be more effective in gearing them for return to society. The apparent need for control could be exercised by keeping opportunities for mobilization available only to relatively small groups. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 503

Categorization

• SEED: An angle on prison reform that treats trust-building as practice rather than control — allowing supervised collective action inside as rehearsal for social life outside.