re: #386 brownbagj

I know this is a weird analogy, but stay with me…

Think of prison like a personal diet that you have just started - no cookies (or whatever your favorite treat is). While you eat no cookies, you lose weight. But as soon as that diet is relaxed, you eat more cookies…which means you have to go on a more restrictive diet to lose weight…which means you lose weight but eat more later and then have to go on an even more restrictive diet…rinse, cycle, repeat.

We are running prisons in such a way that will, based on current data, almost insure more heinous crimes will be committed by an ever growing prison population.

Can we punish and rehab. I don’t know…but it seems the punish part is only biting us in the ass.

We CAN rehab, if we spend the money. We refuse to do so, so therefore, we are fucked.

Very obvious to me.