When my brother was imprisoned for petty crime it did him much more harm than good. It introduced him to a lot of more hardened criminals who he stayed connected with when he got out, it made it almost impossible for him to find employment which meant he saw further law breaking as the only way of making money, and he also developed a drug habit inside which he ended up committing more crimes to fund when he got out. Apparently sneaking class A drugs into prison is very easy and half the inmates are off their faces for most of their sentence.
I know he shouldn't have broken the law in the first place and I'm not trying to garner sympathy for him - I'm just pointing out that prison absolutely made the situation worse. It just turned him from a stupid teenager who made some bad decisions into a hardened criminal with no reason not to commit more crimes.
I've never understood why some people choose to become prison officers. It seems to me that it's one of those jobs (being a politician is another) where a desire to do the job should automatically disqualify you from ever holding the position. That's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but what I mean is that if you feel a deep attraction to the idea of controlling other people and bossing them around, you're exactly the wrong person to be put in a position where you can do that.
The idea of businesses running prisons is truly perverse. Locking people up is a necessary evil because there are those in the world who wish to do others harm. Prisons should be something that the state provides as part of its role of protecting the well-being of citizens as a whole, not a means for companies to pare costs to the bone and make a good return for shareholders.
Is it normal that I feel empathy for criminals?
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When my brother was imprisoned for petty crime it did him much more harm than good. It introduced him to a lot of more hardened criminals who he stayed connected with when he got out, it made it almost impossible for him to find employment which meant he saw further law breaking as the only way of making money, and he also developed a drug habit inside which he ended up committing more crimes to fund when he got out. Apparently sneaking class A drugs into prison is very easy and half the inmates are off their faces for most of their sentence.
I know he shouldn't have broken the law in the first place and I'm not trying to garner sympathy for him - I'm just pointing out that prison absolutely made the situation worse. It just turned him from a stupid teenager who made some bad decisions into a hardened criminal with no reason not to commit more crimes.
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Jail is kind of like job network agencies... They don't help and the employees there make money off the hardship of others.
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Darkly amusing parallel.
I've never understood why some people choose to become prison officers. It seems to me that it's one of those jobs (being a politician is another) where a desire to do the job should automatically disqualify you from ever holding the position. That's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but what I mean is that if you feel a deep attraction to the idea of controlling other people and bossing them around, you're exactly the wrong person to be put in a position where you can do that.
The idea of businesses running prisons is truly perverse. Locking people up is a necessary evil because there are those in the world who wish to do others harm. Prisons should be something that the state provides as part of its role of protecting the well-being of citizens as a whole, not a means for companies to pare costs to the bone and make a good return for shareholders.
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Most do it simply for the money and for enjoying security work. Few actually do it cause they control people
I agree