Aside from the marked absence of research with regard to the factors necessary for prison rehabilitation program to be successful, the literature reveals other reasons for the failure of our current prison rehabilitation programs.

  Despite the significant amounts of money spent on conventional programming vs. the massive numbers of inmates in need, traditional programs still only exist on a scale so small as to have no significant prospect impacting in any meaningful way our huge prison populations. Our society has to this point consistently refused to provide for meaningful research or the delivery of positive programming for prisoners on a scale large enough to even begin to touch the massive numbers of incarcerated inmates. Neither classes, nor programs exist in sufficient numbers to even begin to counteract the damage caused by years of total immersion of new inmates into pervasive, hostile, caustic, anti-social prisoner societies. Providing large scale, valid measurable programs that the majority of prisoners can access is not feasible by conventional methods.

  There are many very complex and difficult problems associated with providing large-scale programming to these massive, non-motivated, anti-social populations in denial of their problems. Any amount of honest research done on the way current programs are being provided would reveal a hornets nest of complex behavioral and technical reasons why the implementation of "honest" large scale, high volume programming has not previously been attempted within our prisons. This study has revealed that virtually all of these can be serious problems can overcome. What will be much more difficult to change is the erroneous idea fostered by correctional systems upon the American public, that punishment is an effective deterrent to future criminal behavior. Aside from the many severe technical problems associated with the provision of honest large-scale programs to criminal populations, other factors that have delayed the implementation of large programs for prisoners has been the high costs associated with traditional delivery systems of psycho-educational programming of even a very limited number of conventional programs.

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