sugarlover writes "Hi, I recently got out of prison, isn't that just wonderful...anyway, I find it interesting that I am a college student now and have found myself in psych, soc, and business classes and not for one moment does anyone ever speak of prisons. I would not speak there anyway, but our society has really developed this amazing legal machinery, and so much of our resources go into putting people behind bars... You would have to go to understand what it does to you. The effects of
incarceration. I never hear that term ever mentioned, in all my ten years there, reading books and newspapers. How do people change?
What happens when you put a bad check writer there and the person loses their family, home,
etc. Is what you do to that person equal to them
obtaining a few hundred dollars. When people go
to prison they lose everything. You could sit there and say "that's fair", but what you are really ending up with is a real angry person capable of doing much worst. It is just human nature. Not many people come out of there being better people. Trust me, I am not talking about
Christian Longo and Ward Weaver types, mostly
50 year old women that took money to help their
families, etc. Everyone should look at Vermont
and let those sort of people do yard work for the elderly, and other community service."