Former Prisoner's Dire Warning: America's Prisons Turning Out Violent White Supremaci

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Former Prisoner's Dire Warning: America's Prisons Turning Out Violent White Supremacists "Mentally Fighting Civil War"

http://www.alternet.org/print/news-...ng-americas-prisons-turning-out-violent-white

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They're also turning out racist blacks and latinos. Read some studies, prisons are nasty places, and you gang up or are preyed upon.
 
Disillusioned said:
They're also turning out racist blacks and latinos. Read some studies, prisons are nasty places, and you gang up or are preyed upon.
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ken's a big fan of msnbc so I'm surprised he hasn't seen the prison shows they have with show the gang problems in our jails among all races. Prison isn't suppose to be a fun place but it doesn't really help society to have it creating all these new gang members either.
 
Disillusioned said:
They're also turning out racist blacks and latinos. Read some studies, prisons are nasty places, and you gang up or are preyed upon.
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And that is one reason why the correction services should NEVER be privatised. Sure the same thing can happen in both systems, but while it is outside the private sector YOU HAVE A SAY. (Even if you dont exercise it!)
 
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/1/texas_da_killed_two_months_after

I don't know if anyone will read this, but I think it's worthwhile. It really got me thinking about how our prison system is so effed up. We are not rehabilitating anyone and with billions now at stake in the prison industrial complex, we have a real problem. It would take a radical rethinking of our system of justice. And before anyone starts screaming, I do understand that some cannot be rehabilitated and we cannot allow them into society either. But let's face it - we have far too many in prison, little to no real rehabilitation efforts being made, and a spreading problem on our hands. Don't worry, I don't think for one minute that our society as it stands is at all capable of dealing with it. I suffer from no pretty illusions.
 
Lowaicue said:
And that is one reason why the correction services should NEVER be privatised. Sure the same thing can happen in both systems, but while it is outside the private sector YOU HAVE A SAY. (Even if you dont exercise it!)
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And you think this only happens in the privatized systems? And the government does have a say in the private sector, if they don't shape up to match regulations, they don't get contracts. It's a problem of people and the kind of people that go to prisons. If you can figure out a solution, write it up and send it over, the corrections system would love it.
 
Darla said:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/1/texas_da_killed_two_months_after

I don't know if anyone will read this, but I think it's worthwhile. It really got me thinking about how our prison system is so effed up. We are not rehabilitating anyone and with billions now at stake in the prison industrial complex, we have a real problem. It would take a radical rethinking of our system of justice. And before anyone starts screaming, I do understand that some cannot be rehabilitated and we cannot allow them into society either. But let's face it - we have far too many in prison, little to no real rehabilitation efforts being made, and a spreading problem on our hands. Don't worry, I don't think for one minute that our society as it stands is at all capable of dealing with it. I suffer from no pretty illusions.
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While I agree that rehab should be made more available there is the problem that it all starts at home. If a prisoner doesn't want to be rehabilitated, nothing is going to work. Then there's the idea of who we're interested in rehabbing, sexual offenses? Right out, nobody cares, if somebody is a sexual offenders(Doesn't even have to be rapist or molester) they're getting out and pretty much doomed. We don't really like violent offenders either, and have little interest in fixing them, some for drug offenses, but the money isn't really there. Then once they get out there's the problem of habitual strain. When somebody has that felony conviction they're estranged from society, family and friends, they have the problem of finding work and of the things that drove them to crime in the first place.

Rehabilitation is hard and we don't have a great way to do it. So we'd rather stick with what works(at least to the extent it works).
 
Disillusioned said:
While I agree that rehab should be made more available there is the problem that it all starts at home. If a prisoner doesn't want to be rehabilitated, nothing is going to work. Then there's the idea of who we're interested in rehabbing, sexual offenses? Right out, nobody cares, if somebody is a sexual offenders(Doesn't even have to be rapist or molester) they're getting out and pretty much doomed. We don't really like violent offenders either, and have little interest in fixing them, some for drug offenses, but the money isn't really there. Then once they get out there's the problem of habitual strain. When somebody has that felony conviction they're estranged from society, family and friends, they have the problem of finding work and of the things that drove them to crime in the first place.

Rehabilitation is hard and we don't have a great way to do it. So we'd rather stick with what works(at least to the extent it works).
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Yes, that's why real change would be radical.
 
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