Are United States prisons "Correctional Facilities" or do they really just make better criminals?

Our current system encourages an endless cycle that starts with a single crime. 1) Person commits a crime 2) Does time 3) Must make note that they have done time on applications 4) The person themselves with few job prospects and out of desparation goes back to a life of crime. I know someone who has a reputation for hiring former prisoners.

He states that he finds that those who interview well are very hard working and very thankful to get a second chance. For the system to work, I think we need more people like him. I also believe that a work placement program may be beneficial, even if it is a modest job it gives them a place to go and feel needed, as well as providing a modest living.

I also believe that most non-violent offenders should be doing service rather than jail time. This will free up prison space while providing people to perform services.

The Correctional Facilities only have effect on certain criminals. This is because not all criminals are sane, and therefore do not learn from their mistakes. The people who do learn go on to live a full life of not breaking the law.

The increase of people in prisons all over the world is that there are so many laws, and that when times get desperate people do stupid things. Also the reason for prison increase all the time is that, people don't get let out everyday, where as loads of criminals go in everyday. I predict that in the near future there will not be enough prison space for criminals.

The correctional facilities are not necessarily what they claim to be. Unfortunately, there may be no go way to put thousands of criminals in the same place and keep them from synergistic-ally increasing the warped criminal psychology of these inmates. In the US the idea that prison is so awful serves a central deterrent to crime.

IMHO, US correctional facilities are functioning as businesses. Although efforts are made to control inmate populations, completely rehabilitating inmates into non-criminals is contrary to the business model itself. Prisons do not get paid for non-inmates.As you sit at your computer committing no crimes they make no money off of you.

The revolving door of the prison community is what keeps the prison industry in business. It is exactly the same as the US "war machine". If there are no conflicts, how are weapons makers to make any money?

So yes, I do believe the process of hardening and handicapping folks into long term and returning inmates is inherent in the system. The system feeds off of war, poverty, crime, drugs and conflicts of all types. If these conditions are not maintained then the corporate vendors of these processes would go out of business.

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