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Good idea to learn useful skills. Just two caveats:

1) This can easily become cheap labor for outside companies, like book publishers, in this case. Books with many reviews sell better than books with none, I've been told. Any self-published author will receive unsolicited email offering to review their books.

2) With respect to "rehabilitation": a substantial number of prison inmates have psychopathic traits [1]. That's not to say they're unemployable; it may even be an asset in some professions [2] /s

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work-eb...?



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