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Stark Assessment: Time Is Running Out

"The bare facts have earned California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation an ignoble distinction for systemic failure."  The State of California's Little Hoover Commission takes California's prison problems head-on in a new report, "Solving California's Corrections Crisis: Time Is Running Out."  The report notes that, despite many years of study, "policy-makers have been unwilling to take on the problem in a purposeful, constructive way."
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Awareness said:

Of course we will run out of time when prisons seem to be more like camps than prisons.  Inmates get free meals, medical, dental, visits, canteen, tv's, they get to play all day without learning responsibility.  They don't even show up to their classes and they still manage to use what ever kinds of drugs they want.  Many have cell phones which use from inside the walls to plan criminal activities out in the communities.  Our hands are tied.  They have too many rights inside the bars that prevents us from being able to help them learn to program.  Remember they are there because they were not able to function in normal society.  How can anyone expect that giving them all these privileges they will rehabilitate? It only keeps them away from the community while incarcerated.  It teaches them not to have to do anything for survival.  They do not have to work to be fed  or get medical treatment.  Instead they get two hot and one cold meal a day.  They get to exercise and play board games all day.  What and how would they learn any different if their inmate rights within the walls make it impossible, it takes away their opportunity to learn responsibility for when they retun to our communities.  That is why the recidivism is so high, they do not know how to function in our society.  Sending them out of state is not fixing the problem.  You are only making the prison gangs stronger by sending them out you are spreading them all over the US. Releasing them early will not reduce cost.  They will commit more crimes and will come back into the system were you will have to pay again more due process fees.  There is no easy way to fix the problem.  To fix it you must face it and be aware of what really happens inside the walls to know how to fix it.  The inmates rights inside the prison are backfiring on them, they are keeping them from having a chance of being a functional citizen in our society.

December 28, 2007 12:23 AM

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