Here too, I guess. We lump too many people in the same boat and, from what I can see, we don't really do a good job at helping any of them. From personal experience, people are released from prison once their sentence is up but some are completely unprepared for life on the outside and it's a shock to them. How stupid are we that we think we can just release people and they'll know everything about how to live despite being cut off from this type of living for however many years? Wasn't the whole idea of them being in prison to learn how *not* to be in prison? Isn't that what we're aiming for? People who just have normal, average lives (and freedom).
As for the people with problems that make them want to commit crimes that involve sex, kids or death, I'd give them nice lives if they agree to be test subjects and give up any dealing with the public. They get a comfortable existence, don't harm anyone, and help us understand what's going on.
I can't even imagine people who've been incarcerated for long periods of time, how mind boggling that must be. There was something down in Georgia a little whiles back about these two men who were falsely convicted of rape and were freed by this group called The Innocence Project or something like that. They had been incarcerated in the 70s I believe.
Imagine coming out of jail and there are cell phones and computers and all sorts of crazy tech and you have to catch up pretty damn fast for most jobs. I can't even imagine people who've been in for longer.. I imagine some people would think the world had gone mad.
Definitely agree on the research part. We don't have nearly enough of an understanding of what causes people to do things like this. Going into art therapy I would possibly have the opportunity to work with people like that but I don't know if I have the cahones for that particular job. Iiiii just wanna work with kids. ^^;
Yeah, it isn't even so much the technology (which gets through to prison to some extent) but the attitudes. I don't think I could come out that kind of spell in prison and believe I fit on the outside. The freedom I dreamed of wouldn't be that sweet and I'd probably want to get back to the only life I did fit with (inside). Release from prison is too sharp a shock. It should be staggered. If it was, maybe my grandfather wouldn't have died so soon after release and I'd have got to know him.
I worked in prisons (occasionally) as part of my last job and I reckon you could do it. Although you do need to adopt a certain attitude and I'd never act in a prison as I act here.
IIN I think gladiatorial fights to the death should be reinstated?
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Here too, I guess. We lump too many people in the same boat and, from what I can see, we don't really do a good job at helping any of them. From personal experience, people are released from prison once their sentence is up but some are completely unprepared for life on the outside and it's a shock to them. How stupid are we that we think we can just release people and they'll know everything about how to live despite being cut off from this type of living for however many years? Wasn't the whole idea of them being in prison to learn how *not* to be in prison? Isn't that what we're aiming for? People who just have normal, average lives (and freedom).
As for the people with problems that make them want to commit crimes that involve sex, kids or death, I'd give them nice lives if they agree to be test subjects and give up any dealing with the public. They get a comfortable existence, don't harm anyone, and help us understand what's going on.
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I can't even imagine people who've been incarcerated for long periods of time, how mind boggling that must be. There was something down in Georgia a little whiles back about these two men who were falsely convicted of rape and were freed by this group called The Innocence Project or something like that. They had been incarcerated in the 70s I believe.
Imagine coming out of jail and there are cell phones and computers and all sorts of crazy tech and you have to catch up pretty damn fast for most jobs. I can't even imagine people who've been in for longer.. I imagine some people would think the world had gone mad.
Definitely agree on the research part. We don't have nearly enough of an understanding of what causes people to do things like this. Going into art therapy I would possibly have the opportunity to work with people like that but I don't know if I have the cahones for that particular job. Iiiii just wanna work with kids. ^^;
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Yeah, it isn't even so much the technology (which gets through to prison to some extent) but the attitudes. I don't think I could come out that kind of spell in prison and believe I fit on the outside. The freedom I dreamed of wouldn't be that sweet and I'd probably want to get back to the only life I did fit with (inside). Release from prison is too sharp a shock. It should be staggered. If it was, maybe my grandfather wouldn't have died so soon after release and I'd have got to know him.
I worked in prisons (occasionally) as part of my last job and I reckon you could do it. Although you do need to adopt a certain attitude and I'd never act in a prison as I act here.