The rising inmate population is overcrowding the prisons and this mania is very unfortunate and has become a major problem especially in Massachusetts: The taxpayers have to pay a sum of 40 grand for each prisoner that walks into a Mass Prison! This problem has many sociologists and criminologists worried, asking the question, “Is prison really helping in the rehabilitation process or is it being a hangout for other criminals?” Some think that the money is being wasted on repeat offenders such as ‘X’ who practice deviance in their every-day mundane life.
They have a lack of prison rehabilitation say some prison guards, like this one named Jeffrey B. Cohan who has created his site http://www.peregolise.com/forum, in his free time. Prisoners thus due to their anomie views never get a chance to really rehabilitate. They wear the stigma, the orange jumpsuit again and again every time they are forced back into prison from society.
Why do they keep coming back is a good question. Some explain this with two theories, the control and the strain theory, which both state that deviance is natural. Others, however, have a different point of view, referring to the cula. People have two different views about the prison system. The first group say that the rehabilitation process is no use exceptionally for the “criminally insane
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The other group filled with positive-thinkers in the society has another view: They believe that the prisoners can rehabilitate, saying that everybody makes mistakes and that’s what the prison is for, to rehabilitate. They say that after they learn their mistakes they will eventually assimilate and become one once again with society.
I feel that the “jails” are for criminals such as rapists, murderers and other criminals that clearly will never be able to accept the rules society and show no hope of being rehabilitated. They may suffer from the strain theory, a bad childhood, whatever the reason is, these guys belong in jail. On the other hand I feel that some criminals (white-collar) see the light of their mistakes while they are incarcerated. They get to thinking, missing their families/friends, and see the truth, that nothing not even money (as involved in larceny) is worth the prison-time. Thus they will move on and hopefully never return to prison.
This is how I feel, unfortunately, it is usually the opposite mostly due to the prison rehabilitation process in prison. Let’s take one day in a life of a prisoner. They are surrounded with other criminals. Thus, they never get out of the criminal mind state and never can grow to realize their mistakes and move on in your life. In the movie, Hard Times, a prisoner admitted that everyday was a battle for him. Thus, I’m guessing that towards the end of his sentence, there is honestly no help to integrate him back into society at all, which is the most critical time for help. A good idea is to have something like a school in which they go into right before entering society. They are graded and are taught integrity.
