Our prison rehabilitation and prison systems need reform. A report published by the Urban Institute confirms that although the number of parolees regularly being released from our prison system is large, the number of them going back into prison is alarming. In 1980, as many as 27,000 parolee violators returned to prisons. By 2000, this number increased to 203,000. This amount represents a 652 percent increase. There are a number of reasons for this:
Continuing social problems drive parolees back to crime.
The number of parole officers is not enough to handle the demand of case loads.
Educational and vocational programs for inmates in prisons need improvement.
Prison personnel need more training in prison based inmate rehabilitation. This will ensure a higher success rate of inmate re-integration in to society. Many private prisons have high staff turnover, chronic understaffing and inexperienced correctional officers. These private prisons are focused primarily on profit, with the inmates being secondary concerns.
If those in charge of our prison system give priority first and foremost to the rehabilitation and re-integration of inmates, this in turn will have a positive effect on the reduction of crime.
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5 comments:
I think the biggest problem may lie with the stigma that society as a whole attaches to a parolee.
I can only imagine how hard it is to secure decent housing or a decent job after coming out of prison. Just about everyone wants a background check, blood test, dna sample, family tree of 6 generations, etc...
They have that old saying 'do the crime, do the time' but it unfortunately is not accurate at all. Prison is not only punishment for the crime, but punishment for the rest of your life. If society treated these people as equals one they were releases it would much easier for parolees to assymilate back into normal lives.
I certainly am not justifying criminal activity. But I feel if you committ a crime, you serve your punishment. If you rob someone and get 5 years, that should be the end of it. We can't continue to ostracize people from society and expect them to be able to make an honest living.
Its unfortunate that there are some criminals that will continue to committ crime regardless, and in our haste to protect ourselves from them, we are actually creating a more dire situation in my opinion.
jpklsvc
I should have added in that post that we have a halfway house here now. The 7th. Judicial District wants to move it and double it's size. With this story basically saying it doesn't work, do we really want twice as many felons on work release loose in our city?
Cruiser, Wow! You almost sound like a liberal. I am accused of the same thing. But doesn't it make more sense to figure out how to keep people out of prison in the first place? And if we aren't successful at that, then let's try to keep out after they get out the first time. Way cheaper in the long run, and that is a conservative value.
With Davenport having one of the highest crime rates ever, the 7th jud dist should be looking to remove the halfway to ensure the parolees have better success here. Too much crime to entice the people to re-offend.
I realize these parolees earned their early release, but you people make some good points. The reason for this revolving door policy that isn't working, in money. So of course the government would say we don't have the money for rehabilitation either. But the government gave us the term, habitual violator also. If someone is an habitual violator, doesn't that mean they can't or won't be reformed? Instead of letting them out to break the law again, give them a life sentence.
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