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Which is a whole different problem altogether. I honestly have never understood what the purpose of even letting people out of prison was. Really, think about i
by Loughla 7y ago
Which is a whole different problem altogether. I honestly have never understood what the purpose of even letting people out of prison was. Really, think about it.
Here you are, you've been 'punished' for a time the state has deemed appropriate. Now you're out. Very little support. No real integration plans, at least not formal ones. No oversight to see whether or not you fall into patterns of behavior from before. Undercut, actively, via loss of certain rights (gun ownership, voting as examples) in your attempts at integrating to society. And it's almost impossible to get anything but the most entry level, low paying jobs.
The US really has a hard on for kicking people when they make a mistake. It's almost a sport, it seems.
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- giantg2 7y agoYep, and it seems like more and more felony crimes are added to the law books, or lower crimes elevated to felonies. I knew a guy that gave a 20 year old alchohol, got caught, got a felony for it. He killed himself due to some of the stuff you listed above.
- Loughla 7y agoI currently work at a community college; one of my programs is a re-entry program. The ones that kill me are the people who have marijuana charges and can't get a job. They're extremely brittle and bitter now that people are being celebrated as geniuses and business leaders for doing exactly what the felons were doing.