Blues Man
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So you'll hire a pedophile to babysit or an embezzler to do your books or a rapist to roof your house?I would never hire anyone with a criminal recordHow do you address recidivism? And reentry back into society?People get released from prison and are on parol/probation to make sure they are not a risk to society. This parol involves limits on their rights and freedoms. Nothing wrong with that.
After that person has repaid their debt to society they should return to being a normal citizen. I have a prison reform bill that covers all of that. In the alternative, however, people on parole or probation could carry special ID until they have completed their sentences.
But, yeah, I see the criticisms coming. That is why I wrote a complete prison reform bill.
Thank you for the most well thought question I've ever been asked on USM.
In my home state, they claim the recidivism rate is 30 percent. I don't know how they arrive at their figures. Some people are revolving door, high miles fliers as they are known. The problem for most is that once they're let out, they have a criminal record, still no skills, no support system... What do you think is going to happen to them?
So, my proposal is that when a judge sentences a person to a stint in prison they have two options:
1) Do the entire stint in less than ideal conditions OR
2) Accept a program of rehabilitation.
Let us suppose that an individual gets a 10 year sentence. In Georgia, due to overcrowding and too damn many laws, some people can do as little as 6 weeks and that's it. If I were in charge, an inmate would walk in the door and do the entire 10 years OR do the following:
A) Get a GED. That would knock of 20 percent of the sentence
B) Undergo drug rehabilitation (if applicable.) That would knock off 15 percent of their sentence once successfully completed
C) Learn some transferable job skills. This could be worth 10 to 20 percent of their sentence time (depending on the skill set's difficulty and worth in the job market)
D) Take a series of seminars on how to apply for a job, balance a checkbook, handle family arguments, and apply for / use credit along with seminars in housekeeping, budgeting their time, financial planning, and understanding insurance. Of course each seminar would come with testing
Ideally the inmate could reduce their sentence by a maximum of 75 percent.
AFTER that individual is let out, the state should rent warehouses and run buses. Businesses could get incentives to give these transitional inmates a job and buses would take them to and from work areas. AFTER the inmate secures a job and puts in a 90 day probationary period, they should have saved enough money to get some kind of housing. If they're proven they have the education and skill sets to do the job; that they budgeted their money and have secured housing; that they can show a financial plan, then you release them.
If an inmate wants to take the hard route, they do the entire stretch. While in prison, you take away their coffee, tea, cigarettes, candy, cake, ice cream and cookies. They will not be allowed a tv, radio, computer, and very limited recreational time. Anyone caught doing an illegal act would get an automatic 10 percent added onto their sentence.
For those who take the rehabilitation program, they are allowed to drop out one time and / or get caught doing something illegal, then after that, it is back to the full term pods.
These are but mere highlights, but you get the drift.
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Lots of people won't hire someone with a criminal record. So the recidivism rate stays high and, because of people like you, we have career criminals. Once they've been let out, they have to do SOMETHING. The drug trade pays the bills. So, maybe if a child becomes a doper, think about it. We may have saved the child by giving the guy with a criminal record a second chance... especially if he fulfilled the rehabilitation program I described.
Say yes and you're lying
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