What pocentage of inmates is actually reformed after prison?
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Less then half is actually reformed.
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Do your own homework.   And no, they shouldn't be reformed, they should be enforced.
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That's a tough one. I think it is better to keep innocent people out of jail at all costs. Although frightening to let criminals walk I suspect most of them will be caught again.
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Criminals have to be in prison to keep them away from the rest of society so they wouldn't hurt us and so they will have an opportunity to reform and change.
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Contrary to popular myth, inmates do not have internet access, there are no currently incarcerated people here.\nThere seem to be quite a few former inmates, and moms, wives, girlfriends and siblings of current inmates hanging around, but no current inmates.
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Yes, criminals are people too, all 2.2 million of them, and every year more than 600,000 of them are released from various state and federal prisons throughout the nation. As a former criminal, released from prison on Dec. 9, 1968, I have learned during the past nearly 36 years how to remake myself, with God's help and direction, from a criminal to a contributor to society.\nThis change is our only hope for reducing crime, and the ever-growing prison population in our country. The US prison population constitutes 25% of all prisoners in the world, and we imprison a higher percentage of our population than an other developed country in the world.\nMany, many more people must learn how to help criminals make the arduous trek from crime to contribution, But be warned, this is not work for the naive or the fainthearted, because personal change is the world's hardest work. I believe we must do the following:\n1. Work closely with a group I refer to as the FLOC--Families and Loved Ones of Criminals, and help them learn how to really help the people they love make that significant transition--from crime to contribution.\n2. Work with employers, and teach them how to recognize evidence of change because going to work is one of the first steps in this transition from crime to contribution.\n3. Begin this work with the FLOC and with criminals at least three years before they're released from prison, so we can identify those who are ready to change.\n4. Make the willingness and the work of change a condition of release.\nThis is only a partial answer, but I believe it provides key principles that will help us reduce crime in the our nation because the only people who can truly reduce crime are those who do it.
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Most don't work due to a reward system for participation that is aimed at the wrong behaviors.  Sentences are reduced and parole eligibility dates are moved up based on PARTICIPATION and not on actual learning.  An inmate can participate in the same drug program several times and receive "comp" time for each instance.  Just the fact that the inmate took the same program several times indicates that he didn't really learn anything or adjuct his behavior but he is rewarded every time he takes it anyway.  As far as being "punished" after release, I haven't seen that as a major problem.  The fact that behaviors didn't change is responsible for a lack of employability and for recividism.  Many drug dealers see incarcaration as a cost of doing business and go along with the program until they are released only to return to dealing.  Prisons are not overly concerned with rehabilitation.  Most programs are started with the goal of attracting federal funds for the prison system, not changing inmates.
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Yes, this is true.  They are moving the remaining prisoners there to another prison.  It's due to the media involvement and the actions of the military at that particular place.
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This is nothing I'm proud of,out of my life i've spent 11 years in prison.A prison cell is usually 8ft.x 8ft. That cell becomes your home.A bed,desk,sink,toilet,maybe a chair.Every decision you used to make in the world is gone.Now their made for you by the state.A person who is naturally a surviver,will adapt,one who isn't will have a rough way to go.It's not a life,it's excistence, one day at a time.You can make it easy, or you can make it hard on yourself.It no where, or way to live.
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There is a wonderful support and information group at http://prisontalk.com\nSomeone there will have your answer.\nI've got a "someone special" locked up, too, and this group has helped me a great deal.
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Do you mean how to restore them in general?  Vote the republicans out.  \n\nIf you mean your individuals right, you have to explain why you lost them.  Ex-felon, or some other reason?
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I have never been to prison, however I have been incarcerated before and I work with men and women that have been in prison. I have been told that as long as you don't try to get involved with all the gangs and cliques you would be ok. Just go in and do your time. Also that it is important to hook up with an old timer that can you teach you how to behave and what you can and can't do. It doesn't have much to do about how tough you are, it is about how smart you are not to try and prove how tough you are. \nSo many prisoners go back because there is no rehabilitation in the prison system, they don't learn how to live in a "normal" society. I've talked to some guys who have said that they know how to live inside and know what to expect. When they are released they are sent back to where they offended (not usually a good idea), they hook right back up with old friends, and it is on again. We need to offer more services to them while they are inside to rehabilitate and not train them for more serious crimes.
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Here's one you missed - guilt.  How many people have you seen come out of prison spouting jesus?  Look at Gary Busey (not prison, but he WAS a bad boy).\n\nMy friend proposed a theory that many of the most vociferous bible thumpers have the longest rap sheets.\n\nPersonally, I think prison is the NEW house of god.
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Hopefully, prisons will be used for "violent criminals" only. Other criminals should do community service work..like picking up trash etc.
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Someone here http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=126\nwill be able to tell you exactly what you need to know.
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its changed the focus of all criminal justice from a punish society, to that of one which tries to change or reform the behavior of criminals.  this carries over to probation/parole by carefull monitoring of behaviors to reform them rather than just intergrate them back into soceity.
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This is all I could find.\nhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/users/joan/Images/criminologist_2002.pdf#search='prison%20rehab%20studies'