Our prison system corrects no one
East Elmhurst: As I’m laying down reading Hill Harper’s “Letters to an Incarcerated Brother,” I’ve had an epiphany of sorts about this corrections system, which is flawed on so many levels that it’s astounding it still stands. The whole infrastructure is broken and pathetic. It seems that the simplest tasks are a burden to those whose job it is to facilitate them but who seem too caught up in their phones. They’d rather do nothing or socialize with co-workers. They get upset with us inmates for the most minute requests.
Once you walk on the other side of those bars and become an inmate, you become worthless to society. Why don’t they try to stimulate and rehabilitate us so we can go home as productive members of society with the proper tools to succeed?
They’d rather make us slaves, forced to work for free, than provide us with the means for a brighter tomorrow. So many lives are stagnating without any incentive to reach their full capacity.
The lack of proper stimulation within these facilities is the predominant cause of most of the nonsense that transpires among the inmate population. The adversity one has to endure while incarcerated is so overwhelming that many become helpless statistics, mainly because of the lack of proper professional help to guide us through these transitional periods. They’d rather make a half-assed diagnosis, pump you up with psych meds and call it a day.
Are we so blinded by money that we’d rather keep this vicious cycle flowing instead of bettering our society? Let’s push to stop the recidivism that’s breaking up so many families throughout this nation. We have to push for jail reform now!