RE: Do prisons truly reform prisoners? What do you think?
You think you can help a psychopath and serial killer by treating them with love and respect?
I write with prisoners for 10 years now. Not one I wrote with over 20. All kind of. It depends on the prisoner if they can be corrected, if they are willing to join courses given and join the plans they have to follow to go back into society.
There are who succeed. There are who are not and spend more years of their life in prison as in the outside world. Prison became their home.
There are also who will always fight, fight the system, think they are right and do inside exactly the same as outside.
If you offer prisoners courses you correct, the fact they are not willing to use them, are stubborn and like to show who is the strongest rooster in the ten has nothing to do with it.
If you sit in your cell. No tv, visitors, courses to educate, therapy it is prison. Some deserve that not the freedoms given. They do not appreciate it but abuse it and it is a place where you stay because you did something wrong. Not to have the best time of your life and get rich.
One night in a Dutch prison costs more as in a 5 start hotel. That is ridiculous. First society is victim of a criminall next she can pay for it's staying in prison.
As a criminal/ex criminal/being convicted it is hard to go back into the outside world if you have no one and no one helps you. Once free you need a place to live, a job and that might be a huge problem. If you are labelled society will not trust you and say: okay you did something wrong, you are punished for it and we are even. You can never start from 0 again. For some reason that does not feel right either.
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Nice thoughts there @wakeupkitty. I really agree that showing love alone does not reform criminals. Though looking at the ways to get the best out of people, it seems that you cannot completely do without showing some kindness. This and a combination of other techniques seems to work better than outright brutality and harsh treatments.
I hope it does. In real life it seldom works that way. A lack of trust, faith, honesty also plays a huge role. I saw that with fosterchildren as well.
Character and self esteem are important too and furure perspective. Some you cannot help. You see that with all those visiting shrinks etc for over 10 years.
The soul, human being is complexed. Inmates are no exception. Being a guard is not the greatest job there is.
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really in its complete I don't think they are reformed from those places come out worse than they were before
From the inmates I write with I hear different stories. There is a huge difference how the prisons work but there is also if it comes to the (character of) inmates.