So how -can- we rehabilitate criminals?

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Sat, 10/10/2009 - 1:48pm

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So how -can- we rehabilitate criminals?

Okay, let me give you all some facts.

In June 2007, there were 2,299,116 people in prison. Roughly half the population of Scotland.

It costs roughly $50/day (being very generous here) to take care of a prisoner. 100 million down the drain every day, or 4 trillion a year. On top of that, repeat offender rates are surprisingly high.

In addition, disease spreads throughout prisons due to overcrowding, and I read somewhere that the most common rape victim is indeed a man in prison, meaning the friendly neighborhood shower rapist is probably spreading plenty of STDs around.

It all boils down to this: "You're doing it wrong!"

So, how can prisons be changed? From reducing how often people are in prison, and actually leaving the Hellhole as a changed person, not someone who did time. I think making the prisons more like a place for actual treatment of criminal behavior than "lock them up" would be a good start.

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Sat, 10/10/2009 - 5:26pm

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Re: So how -can- we rehabilitate criminals?

Give them a chance to redeem themselves and clean their record. First of all, this would give those who qualify a clean record in which to look for work. What we have right now is a throw away society, where once labeled, these men and women have nothing but more crime to resort back to as nobody ill have anythin to do with them.

I do realize that there are obvious exceptions to this rule, but with the highest per capita of our population in the world, in jail, there are also equal, if not greater perentages of those falsely accused, or those who simply need and desire another chance.

Crime in America has become a national sport. We all have our imperfections. Forgiveness is one of them. We all scream for "justice" until our tit gets caught in that proverbial wringer. Victims rights has gone too far, and this is what it has gotten us.

I'm all for change. AO, please stay out of this, unless you actually have something CONSTRUCTIVE to say.

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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:04pm

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Re: So how -can- we rehabilitate criminals?

It's as simple as asking for Jesus to descendant again for us to save this world from who are ruling as in the name of democracy and making us poor everyday. It all as to start from the political level to enact strict law to, educating the bureaucrats and executives to do their duty dutifully, and last but not the least, try to give some mental preachings to the offenders only can change something not everything.