Is it possible a better prison system would have a greater ability to  rehabilitate most of those incarcerated?

When we cage people like animals in dangerous places 

Should we not expect them to act like dangerous animals… and realty be dangerous animals?

We must ask ourselves these questions:

Will these people feel like they still have value in the eyes of society?

Will they learn to behave as civilized humans or more like caged animals?

How will their mental growth occur when the food they are served is marked “Not Fit For Human Consumption”?

When they are cold in the winter, hot in the summer, without privacy, how will this affect their physical and mental health?

When we treat them like animals in a zoo… can we expect them to somehow blend into society someday?

At the end of their sentence and when we drop them off at a bus station with one suit of clothes, $50.00 in their pocket and nowhere to go what is the most likely outcome?

And when they continue their drug addiction on the inside, how can we expect them to overcome this problem when it  is the root to almost all crimes committed?

Ideas for Prison Reform

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Reform:

First Reform ourselves

How we view crime and punishment.

WE reform/ rehabilitate

We do not reform, but merely warehouse people who may present a danger to the public

We take revenge on people who have committed crims.

How do we view prisoners?

Are they slightly above animals who merely need to be caged

Are they people who need to be severely punished to discourage them from further crime?

Are they our children who have not been trained properly… in other words are we willing to take some responsibility for their failure, by realizing it is also our failure as family and society?

There is another option here… some people are criminally insane, and rehabilitation is simply not possible.

Some are demon possessed.

Some are demons in the flesh.

So we must have professionals who can determine the category each prisoners comes under.

If a prisoner is one of the last three… and there is no hope… and in a sense they can’t help who they are or what they do should we still treat them in some humane manner…. Or not?