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Originally Posted by kane
You may not have used the word savages, but you did say, "Prison needs to be nasty, vile, and horrible." That sounds pretty savage to me.
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Savage is when you take one hundred prisoners, throw them into a open pen, and say "every man for themselves".
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Originally Posted by kane
To me the way you make them not want to go back is by helping them get some type of opportunity to succeed when they are released. Look up institutionalization syndrome. Just being locked up, even if there are some decent amenities, screws with a person. Many of these people are released, they have no skills, no way of getting job that pays more than minimum wage and they are surrounded by temptation to return to their old lives. It isn't that they are not afraid of going back to jail (although, I digress, some likely are not afraid) it is that they don't think they will get caught or they no longer care because they are hopeless.
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The vast majority of these criminals will be released from prison and the best it will ever get for them will be an entry level position making minimum wage. Donny, who will be listed as a sex offender for the rest of his life, will never hold a decent job again - ever. The best it will ever get for him is a cashier at 7-11. Teaching someone like this a trade is worthless.
Two thirds of them are re-offending as it is. Teaching them a trade doesn't change the fact that they are criminals with a criminal record, which is why so many of them re-offend - they have little hope of being a productive citizen again.