Originally posted by Wu-5Rings:
Originally posted by dj43:
It goes all the way back to the family level. Kids born into single parent homes where little value is placed on education have little chance to succeed in the world. When a mother and father commit to being married and staying/working together to create a stable environment to raise children we will see a substantial decrease in crime. Until that happens things are not going to get appreciably better.
While I don't fully support a privately owned prison system, the state is not to blame for adults who refuse to act like adults. That is only blaming the symptom without looking at the root cause.
Understoond but
When they are too busy cashing in and not rehabilitating I do find an issue with it.
I want to enjoy my bbq with my family in peace like the next man.
We are cashing in on killers, not rehabilitating them then the ones who dont commit suicide get released in 20 years a commit another murder.
Stop viewing them as checks and start trying, because these killers are being released every day back into society.
I rather them to try then releasing them in 20 years and doing the same s**t over.
Just because these kids come from single parent homes, doesnt mean the state or private companies need to prey on them.. What does that do to the public in 20 years if he is not killed when they are released?
The problem isn't with killers being released that is lowering the prison population. It is non-violent drug users that are being released that is lowering the population.
Yes, I agree we need to try to do a better job rehabilitating all prison inmates. The problem with that is that by the time violent offenders wind up in prison, they are hard-wired into their life of crime and not at all interested in anything else. Particularly among hard-core gangs, serving time is considered a badge of honor.
Once in a while we hear of one of those who takes advantage of what is offered in the way of rehab, but they are the exception.
If we are looking at someone/something to blame, let's look at our public education system which preaches that everyone should be on a college path. Among the elites that run our ed system, blue collar workers like auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, equipment operators, and the like, are looked down on a "low education rednecks." This is crazy.
The truth is, the aptitudes of many kids does not fit with a college curriculum. Their natural aptitude is to do and fix things with their hands. When a computer programmer needs his car fixed he can't pass it off to the guy in the adjoining cubicle. He needs someone outside the building with an aptitude to do those repairs. Unfortunately, the "geniuses" that run our ed system have done away with much of the valuable vocational education programs that used to be offered in school. In their ivory tower minds, they view every kid that doesn't seem interested in college to need "special education" instead of an alternative study field that does suit their aptitude. The result is we spend millions of dollars trying to teach math to a kid who would be very good at a trade job. Or worse yet, we deem them to be autistic or ADHD and put them on drugs to make the manageable in the classroom. In my wife's middle class public school, 20% of kids were on some prescription drug that was required to be on record with the school and a backup supply was kept in the nurse's office. In most cases, the issue was a parenting issue, not a kid issue.
Sorry for the long side track, but the problem starts long before prison.
