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Originally Posted by Vegas Joe
The inmates always want parole. They always want to get out of prison. They try every way they can to get out. Then, when they finally do get out, they go back and do the same things they did before to try and get back in. Makes no sense to me.
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A lot of them do. I have my suspicions. I used to think it was because they liked being criminals, locked up etc. And in some cases, that's probably true. In other cases, addiction causes them to behave like idiots and commit crimes.
But after working with the felon population for about three years I have come to realize the MAIN reason they go back.
A felon cannot rent a decent place to live. FOREVER.
A felon cannot enter the professions and pretty much cannot get a job outside of restaurant kitchens and construction.... FOREVER.
Most of them come out raring to go.... looking for work, looking for a place to live other than back home with momma...
after enough doors get slammed in their faces for rentals, after enough job applications get turned down because of a background check...
their self esteem takes such a hit.
It is very difficult to watch a grown man break down and cry as he realizes his felony record means that until the day he dies, he will be imprisoned without being in an actual prison.
Without the ability to find a job that covers the bills, without the ability to rent a place..........without the ability to support the family, move ahead, save some....
and knowing it will be like this for the remainder of their lives....
They give up.......They become what society has already deemed them to be-Felons for life.