Prison is typically not the holiday that most brainless fools think it is.
There is a serious problem with drugs, which only serves to make rehabilitation that much harder, violence too. Yes, you can get a playstation, but you have to work in the prison for it. And even then it's not just handed to you with a catalogue of games for the lulz.
If you've been done for certain crimes where they have to isolate you from the rest for your safety, then often you'll get someone from that rest get themselves put in 'isolation' or the 'safe' wing just to shank you.
Unfortunately there is corruption through fear. You do get gangs. You do get your 'head cons' living in relative luxury due to their influence outside and within the prison.
But no, sorry to smash most people's fantasies, but it's not all happy, gadgets and slap-up meals. It's worse than basic nutrition for the most part, you're locked up with murderers, gangbangers and junkies despite you only committing a minor crime. Those people around you recieve little in the way of rehabilitation and so don't really become 'better people'.
It's a mess. Unfortunately very few people want to know the truth. Some think prisoners are going to holiday camps. It's not true. Some people think they should be locked up 23 hours a day. That's wrong, and it'll never allow them to repay their debt to society.
There are a few people around who believe prison should be about rehabilitation just as much as punishment. Working to make these people, whatever they've done, realise what they've done is wrong, and although they can never undo the damage they have done, perhaps contribute back into that society from which they took. It is that which I personally believe in. But there are problems, and they need to be sorted.
Whether they will be sorted or not is something I can't answer. And any progress will be hindered while we still have large amounts of people who want to set back our justice system a thousand years.
There is a serious problem with drugs, which only serves to make rehabilitation that much harder, violence too. Yes, you can get a playstation, but you have to work in the prison for it. And even then it's not just handed to you with a catalogue of games for the lulz.
If you've been done for certain crimes where they have to isolate you from the rest for your safety, then often you'll get someone from that rest get themselves put in 'isolation' or the 'safe' wing just to shank you.
Unfortunately there is corruption through fear. You do get gangs. You do get your 'head cons' living in relative luxury due to their influence outside and within the prison.
But no, sorry to smash most people's fantasies, but it's not all happy, gadgets and slap-up meals. It's worse than basic nutrition for the most part, you're locked up with murderers, gangbangers and junkies despite you only committing a minor crime. Those people around you recieve little in the way of rehabilitation and so don't really become 'better people'.
It's a mess. Unfortunately very few people want to know the truth. Some think prisoners are going to holiday camps. It's not true. Some people think they should be locked up 23 hours a day. That's wrong, and it'll never allow them to repay their debt to society.
There are a few people around who believe prison should be about rehabilitation just as much as punishment. Working to make these people, whatever they've done, realise what they've done is wrong, and although they can never undo the damage they have done, perhaps contribute back into that society from which they took. It is that which I personally believe in. But there are problems, and they need to be sorted.
Whether they will be sorted or not is something I can't answer. And any progress will be hindered while we still have large amounts of people who want to set back our justice system a thousand years.
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