I went n a prison and met some really intelligent men. They r called the inside out theory group, sponsored by the university of Michigan.

Prison is for those who cant apply self disciple to their passions and appetites and get caught n the process ! We all have our weakness by and large but some fail to change their entrenched patterns of behaviour and justify their crimes through rationalization ! do the crime do the time ! yes or no ?

Everyone makes mistakes and deserves a second chance good luck

Alot of ppl r locked up during their developmental stages of life and realize their potential too late. I think that society gives up on ppl too soon and can't admit it. Takes some ppl longer than others to grasp life.

U said some fail to change, but what about the many who do change that r lost n the system? Should we sift through them or what? I met some incredible ppl n prison. I've never had such intelligent dialogue. Been n there since they were teenagers, 20-30 years. Some without murder cases. Or tax paying dollars r being wasted on them. But we never care till it hits close to home.we really need to b mindful of what our taxes r being spent on.

No it means we have not been caught yet! :)

I have a hard time with the 'bad' 'good' labels as applied to human beings

I think people do good and bad things
and people make good and bad choices

people in jail were found (rightly or wrongly) to have made an illegal choice in their life,,,,


cant really say that makes them 'bad or good'

well thank you for that at least there is still some decent people in this world

did you ever even consider the fact that 90% of people in prison have addiction problems which are considered a dieseas. This is the only disease that keeps on telling you that you don't have a dieseas, next we are going to lock up people who have Dieabtes or cancer or alzheimers etc.. you get the point?

thank you amen!!

Personally I have been to jail (we don't have prison in Australia) multiple times when I was a misguided and out of control youth, I have learnt from my mistakes and don't blame anything or anyone for my actions, only use it as a positive learning experience. I don't judge people who are or have been in jail, who am I to do that? Who is anyone to do that? The world is full of good and bad and there is a lot of good behind bars and also a lot of bad out.. Everything happens for a reason in life and sometimes people make mistakes but who are really the bad one, the people who are in or the people who are out judging people when they don't know the story and build up to the event..

And u can't blame any kind of drug for the reason they are in jail. It is quite easy to kick an addiction. Trust me I was on Herion for 5 years (from 13-18) but kicked it the moment I found out I was having a child., the people who don't admit to themselves they are at fault, they are the ones with the problem stay in the same circle of drugs, crime and jail.. They took the drug, they did the crime, they do the time simple as that..

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Sad thing is thiers some programs in prisons to help and rehabilitate the inmates and many honestly try and want to change but when they get out society dosent welcome them instead thier labeled and cast to the side many times.they try n try but after so much rejection you revert back to your old ways 1 for acceptance be someone and 2 for survival. It usually ends with them going back to prison .its a vicious cycle.

I would have to disagree with this thinking...
Although i certainly agree with your right to think that way

I agree!!!!! And prison does not make a bad~person

Prison is a place where someone is locked down almost all of the day in a cell or open space with other inmates; naturally, one can assume they would utilize that time to become more intelligent...In multiple different areas. Just as someone can go into prison a criminal and come out a scholar, more often than not they go into prison and are released only to commit more crime and more often than not crimes more serious than they were previously convicted of.

The problem isn't the system, the problem is the society. I think the problem is a lot bigger than geography or finances; we can't analyze a space shuttle exploding without every fragment of evidence, just as an analogy. The limited view that the prison system is flawed due to funds, or politics, even location; is a largely limited one taking into account the apparent "High" society that surrounds the problem.

New Zealand has almost no crime at all if not no crime at all, Canada has limited crimes that nowhere touch the violent and vicious intent of other American countries crime's. America is a continent, why, then, is it that in the North there is almost no violent crime to speak of, and yet in the middle, South, and virtually everywhere else on the continent is victim of crime in the upwards of nearly 20,000 murders with a firearm?

The problem; I propose, is not the victim or the perpetrator...No, that isn't the problem, the problem is simple...The problem is us.

Murderers serial killers baby rapers ....
YEAH THEY deserve a second chance alright

pfffft !


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