Crime Stats
ncantre | February 20, 2009Do current correctional institutions really rehabilitate prisoners? Every year tax payers spend millions of dollars in order to keep prisoners in check. this money is also supposedt to rehablitating the inmates. Stats are showing that a large number of excons will be rearrested which means that the money was not well spent on them. Its almost as if tax dollars are being thrown into a bottomless pit. This really disgusts me because you would think by now that we as a society would start trying new techniques to rehablitate prisoners. Stats are showing that excons with an education of any sort are more likely to avoid jail. These stats get favorably better as the education jumps from high school to college level. The answer maybe to make it mandatory to eduacate our prisoners.
10:48 am - 2-20-2009
I agree with what you put how it is a bottomless pit. They say you can study a society and its faults by looking at its convicts. So we should study different techniques like you said to get these convicts more motivated to do something else with their life. In addition though they do get their beliefs and values at a young age, so it would be hard to get them to be motivated to better educate themselves at this level. The problem starts with parents allowing their kids to act out of hand instead of stopping the problem early.