Recidivism among Youthful Offenders

[truthtracker]

Who said crime doesn't pay? What the f**k?
Let's review a senior citizen that has been law abiding their whole life has to pay Medicare part D premiums and co-pays for each prescription, yet were gonna give some of the most vile piece's of horse dung 75% off and never expires. Who says prison isn't the new welfare system?
Law abiding tax payers should be outraged.

[officer1]

So True. My wifes 2nd cousin, a convicted felon for using and selling drugs, breaking and entering, assault, had an overdose and almost died. The State of Florida gave him 100% disability, and free college. He was attending for three years. Two years ago he and his wfie and 3 year old moves into a nice 3 bedroom house. Two days ago he is arrested for cultivating marijuana at his home. What will the state give him next? Doubt it will be prison time, and doubt they will take away his college or disability money.

[officer1]

Do they get 75% off a the local "pill mills"?

[catman]

inmates are going to re-offend just to get back in they have it made thank you Scott now my grandparents have to wonder how they are going to pay for their medication, maybe they should commit a crime to get all the windfall that low life inmates are getting. lets see free medication, education, library, chapel and of course the all time favorite they are going to get packages oh yeah don't forget an MP3 player why would they want to leave they get feed and told what to do. I swear the mothers must be so proud of their children being in prison

[truthtracker]

Thank you Yardog exactly my point. As I have stated many times before I don't care how much education and benefits you give these guys, IT"S A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN THE BRAIN CORRELATED TO POOR DECISION MAKING. Has nothing to do with how many re-entry programs we provide them. If a person makes a mistake and/or commits a crime and wants to do the right thing they will do their time get out and never re-offend.
We as a society must understand as society grows so will the criminal element, however if we as society make prison a place to get education and vocation training they can't or wont get on the street it will continue to grow. There is no fear of consequences to an illegal act commited, then and only then will you see crime go down.
In this country we coddle convicted felons so much, they have more rights than the people that put their lives on the line everyday to supervise them. Why do you think this country has the highest crime rate and prison population in the world? Yardogs story is a prime example of this. This mentality towards crime in this country has to change.
Are we happy now ;D ;D.

[sayjack]

Re-Entry—The Big Lie

“Recidivism is the key statistic in determining whether or not criminal justice interventions, from diversion through incarceration, are making a difference in keeping offenders from committing more crimes.”

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This is whole heartedly false! The measure of whether or not criminal justice interventions are working is the crime rate. From all the statistics I’ve seen crime is down across the board over the last 30 years. Why? Because criminals were locked up for longer periods of time. The high recidivism rate is a testament to two things: one, a person will not change until they decide to change on their own and two, the criminal justice system has done a great job at identifying criminals. The CJS can mandate as many programs as they can find funding for but they will never convince a criminal to change his or her ways until that criminal decides for themselves that crime is no longer a lifestyle worth perusing.
Due to the down turn of the economy, governments have sought more cost effective ways of control crime. Unfortunately, the methods they have turned to will lead to higher crime rates in the long run in poor communities. But that’s okay; most policy makers don’t live in poor communities, do they? How, you ask, will the new policy of re-entry lead to higher crime rates in the long run, especially in poor communities? The argument goes something like this: re-entry is based on the premise that programs for inmates will rehabilitate them so they will not come back to prison; therefore, it is better to spend more and more money on programs. Now we know this does not work because it has been tried in the past and a government commissioned research project determined that “nothing works.” They is why about thirty years ago, almost all prison systems went to the “control model” of prison administration and the economy allowed for longer and longer prison sentences, hence crime rates when down. Now, in the prison system I work in, I have noticed that less and less gain-time (or good time, or time off for good behavior) is being taken from the inmates whenever they are caught violating a rule infraction. This leads to more gain time handed out. Here is the big lie: administrators and proponents of re-entry are attributing the increase in gain time to the success of programs!
What does this mean to you? It means that criminals will be getting out of prison earlier then their original sentence. As more and more criminals are released, and more and more police officers are laid off, what do you think will happen to the crime rate? Right, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
In addition to more criminals on the streets and less police officers to catch them, law makers are quietly rewriting laws so that criminals are less likely to go to prison and when they do, they do not go for long periods of time, hence the crime rate goes back up.

[sfcwoodret]

I agree. Corrections concerning youthful offender inmates is about baby-sitting and also now very political rather than actual security policies!