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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr. <
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b14a28034b170301d6322d9bfccfc586.jpgPRISON'S DON'T WORK
Prisons & the criminal justice system actually increase crime. Gathering all the criminals together in a prison means they all get to share information, skills and ideas with each other. More experienced criminals pass their skills and attitudes down to less experienced criminals, teaching them how to be better criminals. Prisons are universities of crime. Once a prisoner is out s/he often has a tough time supporting him/herself because few employers will hire an ex-con. That difficulty encourages him/her to use their criminal skills, gained in prison, to support themselves, since supporting themselves legally is difficult or impossible. Thus, the system trains them in criminal skills and puts them in a position where they have little choice but to use them in order to survive. In addition, the mistreatment they receive in prison creates a feeling of powerlessness and resentment which they sometimes take out on innocent people once out of prison. If you want to turn someone into a career criminal send him/her to prison.
My address was to the problems of prison. I too think there are those who will need to be locked up for life. I have little sympathy for those who are violent offenders and will never change. My heart goes out to the victims in which I see daily in my center. We have to weed out those who can be helped from those who can not be helped. The persons or agency who makes these determinations also have to be monitored because power over powerless people causes one to become more powerful and less effective. It is a huge problem.
I think the idea of rehab is a good one. When we had rehab we had far less crime. We turned to a system of punishment and brutality over the past 8 years. And crime is worse, criminals are worse and more children are left homeless than has been reported since 193?
To explain what is wrong and what will help would take years to explain. Sociology is one course you can take to help explain the current situation and what won't help.
When people are insensitive to others, to point of taking from them their lives, property, innocence etc. we need to re institute a program to create within them a sensitivity. Rehab does this.
(If you want to turn someone into a career criminal send him/her to prison.)
Most of the men, women and children who are in the prison system were send there by their own behavior and lack of respect for the rights and properties of other people. If you want to stay out of the prison system then learn the laws and obey them.
The Lawless Ones think that this planet and everything on it belongs to them. All those sapps working to making a living are only gathering for the Lawless Ones, who come in the nights, come on older people or kids.
Do you have a better idea of where to put these people who believe that the laws of this land don't apply to them? It is indeed a problem
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