Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: Blkstanger
Go to prison here and you get a free gym membership and all the cable tv you can watch.
I think our Country would be better off if our prisoners were making purses 14 hrs a day.
Just took a prison tour today. My Son is a guard. The place in the prison that you see in the movies called "The Hole" i.e. solitary confinement-no light, no creature comforts (blankets/mattresses) have been proven not to work. (Consequently-those cells are now closed down and used for general storage). You put someone in those conditions and they just get even more mad, "more primal". Then they are a danger to the guards,themselves and other prisoners.
That's not to say the really "bad guys" have many privileges-because they don't.
Statistically-80plus% of prisoners will serve their time and be back on the street. So the primary mission is rehabilitation. They will be back in most of the communities which we live.
Yes-there will be repeat offenders-but this is what the prison system now attempts to minimize. Though job training, mental health treatment and other things.
Making purses for 14 hours a day is not a rehabilitation path.
Thank you for posting a first hand, real life observation of our prison system. I appreciate you taking the time to provide us with these honest views.
They were a danger to the guards (here in Texas, we call them Correctional Officers, a guard is someone standing at the gate to the local power plant), themselves and other prisoners BEFORE they were sent to solitary. They cannot behave outside prison or inside prison. That is just the way it is.
Spend 23 years working inside a prison, and then post a "first hand, real life observation" of our prison system. Some people are absolutely mean, just plain mad-dog mean.