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Kyle March (FGCU) Problems in America’s Correctional Facilities
Every year over 13 million Americans are arrested with around 95% of those people returning back to society. But how can these people improve their lives if they are not treated humanly and taught how to live civally in society? there is no doubt that many of these people belong in prison and deserve their time, but then what happens when they get out? They come out just as bad in many cases.
The violence in prison is ridiculous, I do not know firsthand, but I have heard firsthand stories and it is a well-known fact. First of all, I doubt that most correctional officers even care if violence goes on, they probably love it. North Dakota, South Dakota, and Arkansas all reported zero cases of assault in their prisons back in 2000. ZERO???? This is the number that they gave the U.S Justice Department….think about that…zero, zip, nada…..I would bet anything that at least one case of assault occured in a prison in one of the three states. Off that number alone I see how much 3 states care about prison violence, they care just as much as they reported, ZERO.
A big part of leaving prison is being able to cope in society, for which they offer classes inside the prison. However, since 1990 there has been a double in the population of inmates. But, there has not been a double in the funding of educational classes to help inmates return to society. So we just put these criminals back into society without deligently attempting to rehabilatate them.
Most people will hear somehting like this and act like it does not matter, but these people can be your neighbors or they can come back and commit a crime on you in part to them not rehabing at all while incarcerated. I only 2 people who have done prison time, and damn they learned nothing, because the effort is piss poor by the system. If they do not care, then why should these inmates and convicted felons? We act like we do not care, but we will when we see it affect someone we know, or when a careless ex-con hurts you.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-06-11-our-view_x.htm