Is Prison Really Helping to Rehabilitate Inmates?
Question by flowersinbloom25: Is prison really helping to rehabilitate inmates?
Mature and intelligible answers please!
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Answer by Jessica K
No. And I’ll tell you why.
I am a reporter, and last year my beat was to cover the area of New Haven in Connecticut. If you are unfamiliar with that area, it is extremely run down, mainly Black (not being racist, that was just the overall make up of the city), low income, residents. A lot of “gang” wars go on with guns and drugs, and a shooting is not uncommon in downtown New Haven.
I spoke with the State Representative of New Haven, his name was Bill Dyson. His main objective for his district was to intergrate people coming out of the prisons and set them up for better lives. He explained that people that go to prison often do their time, then get released from jail and are unable to be hired at any job because they have criminal backgrounds. They were already poor to begin with and now that they can’t get work, they have to resort to going back to what got them into jail in the first place, either violence, or drugs. It is a viscious cycle for these people.
Some other people tho get out and have families and friends who support them and help them get back on their feet when they are released. It all depends on what kind of person you are.
Another point to make is that a lot of people purposely try to get into jail because you get “three hots and a cot.” A lot of people who are unable to afford to live, commit a crime, get arrested and then they have a guaranteed roof over their head, a bed and three meals a day. Even though it is not the way to live some people do do this.
And even another point is that some people go to jail and get angrier and angrier with each day, week, month and year they spend in their. They get so consumed with anger and getting revenge on the person that put them there, that the second they are released they hunt that person down, kill them, hurt them, or whatever and wind up back in prison.
Also while you are in prison, unless you can defend yourself or become associated with “in prison gangs” you get eaten alive. Most people join up and become violent in jail so they can survive, once they are released they no longer know how to function normally in society and they often mess up and get into more trouble.
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