$ being spent on prisoners to rehab them?

Question

i can understand this to some degree, if they have a short sentence or their crime wasnt particularly heinous; but if that was the case, why did they get sentenced?

why do we "owe" law violaters a free training program/job training programs etc. it really bothers me. considering, they spend practically ZERO on mental health programs/housing programs, drug abuse treatment/rehabilitation/job training for people that HAVENT broken the law!!

Am i wrong to feel this way? and is this the result of law enforcement organisation lobbyists or why is this? and dont tell me they're doing it to help people because they could do that by spending more money on programs for people that dont break the laws. just fed up with this kind of c**p.

same thing applies for medical and dental care.

Answer 1

It is in our own best interest to try and keep criminals ( or what we currently deem to label criminals) from going back to jail once they have been in the first time.

Prisons are NOT great places to be. They are cruel, demeaning and usually wind up as places that instruct on how to be better criminals than better citizens.

If you put a person into a situation that has ZERO control over his life, you MUST ( in a civilized country) provide them with the basics of live, food and health being the most basic.

The best solution is to not eliminate rehab but to concentrate on not sending them there in the first place. We have the highest prison population per capita in the world and it has done little to curb serious crime. We need to empty them of of non violent drug users ( our drug policy is a joke) and work on Why they have turned to crime in the first place

Oh and the government spends billions of tax dollars on medical, dental, mental health programs/housing programs, drug abuse treatment/rehabilitation/job training every year on people who have not been in jail

Most people we send to prison, we are going to have to live with again. Do we want to turn them into complete sociopaths or try to integrate them back into society in a constructive way?

Answer 2

It is cheaper to get them in a steady job. It reduces the risk of them re-offending.

Locking people up is extremely expensive.

Answer 3

Locking people up and releasing them will just cause a neverending cycle of locking people up and releasing them.  Often, the crimes will escalate, burglary will become armed robbery and armed robbery can become murder.

The programs offered are actually a benefit to us as well as the prisoners.  It's an attempt to break the cycle in a hope that a robber who leaves with an education and the resources to find a job will not return to crime and prison.  Incarcerating someone is incredibly expense.  So if you add $ in the form of training and prevent someone from returning and returning and returning, you've saved money.  Also, they have families - reuniting a family in a productive manner will often also prevent the children in that family from going down the same road.

Answer 4

if you are wrong, so am i.

i have never thought that rehab should be the idea of prison. it should be punishment.

i guess the idea is that if they are rehabed they will not commit the crime again, which may be true but isnt the point.

imagine they come up with a sure fire non violence pill that turns off the violent part of the brain. so someone kills your family, do you just give them the pill and send them on their merry way? i would want them punished.  

Answer 5

I feel the same as you!!  Some of the people in prisons have it better than people out here that are law abiding and trying to stay afloat.  And, don't even get me started on the free medical in this country when we have to pay sooooo much for ours.