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You have a point, but is 60% reoffending a good number? Here is an interesting link from the UK, where the aim is to break that problem and stop reoffence by more prisoner intervention.
It's not a good number. But a lot of people in prison are mentally ill and the authorities have no place else to put them. Other are mentally slow and unable to really change their ways. Others are innocent of the crimes they're convicted of. I wonder what the prison population would look like if you could wave a wand and put all those people where they belong.
And, of course, that leaves the career criminals. You'll always have a few of those, but if everyone had an equal shot at success in this country they would be a lot less likely to offend, let alone re-offend.
It's not a good number. But a lot of people in prison are mentally ill and the authorities have no place else to put them. Other are mentally slow and unable to really change their ways. Others are innocent of the crimes they're convicted of. I wonder what the prison population would look like if you could wave a wand and put all those people where they belong.
And, of course, that leaves the career criminals. You'll always have a few of those, but if everyone had an equal shot at success in this country they would be a lot less likely to offend, let alone re-offend.
Definitely many mental patients in jail, very sad. There was a place to put many of them until then president Ronald Reagan mostly shut down that structure years ago.
Ghetto parents raising ghetto kids teaching them to steal rob and dis-respect authority.
67% of prisoners are minorities.
66% recidivism rate for prisoners.
Ghetto parents raising ghetto kids teaching them to steal rob and dis-respect authority.
67% of prisoners are minorities.
66% recidivism rate for prisoners.
But bear in mind the disproportionate punishments meted out to minorities, keeping them in a system designed to destroy their chances at rebuilding their lives. In Ohio (for instance) where they still have capital punishment, a white person who kills a black one has a 1 out of 4 chance of getting the death penalty. A black person who kills a white one has a 0 out of 4 chance of getting anything BUT the death penalty.
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