While not the in depth analysis we are used to with NPR, with pages of droning on liberal leaning, tear jerking monotone, this one is relatively short...
The question is, could the US learn something from this prision in El Salvador....Reports are that prisoners are respectful, follow direction, and are in exchange clean, and well cared for. A far cry from our own Max Security prisons....
Could it actually be that being in prison shouldn't come with more opportunities to inmates that many free citizens get?
You tell me....
Different world. Different culture.
Americans are much more violent, and incorrigible.
The Hispanic culture reacts completely different to authority, and control.
The Hispanic culture does not have the opportunities, or advantages that Americans have.
Which is why most, not all, Hispanics that engaged in criminal behavior in their home countries because of abject poverty, and no real job opportunities, do not engage in the same behavior when they come to America, because jobs that pay what we do here are non existent.
Americas most violent criminals will continue to exploit every inch given them even in maximum security prisons.
There are no opportunities for inmates in Americas prisons. Which is the reason most become repeat offenders when they are released.
American prisoners live in, and were born into every opportunity that Hispanics can only dream of.
When you take a former gang member from an Hispanic country, and just the average American male that refuses to work, but just hustles for the easy dollar. It's the former Hispanic gang member that gladly gives up his former lifestyle for a $1000 a week construction job, because he can't believe such an opportunity exists for him to do so.
All of those Hispanic workers you see on construction sites across America every day, weren't choir boys before they came to America to get those jobs.
It's not about the prisons, inmates, or opportunities.
It's about the mindset of the average American, and their ability to recognize, and take advantage of the opportunities available to them.
Those Hispanic gang members that came here, got jobs, and stopped crimeing because they don't have to anymore, recognized those opportunities immediately.
The question you should be asking, is why is that?
