Does our prison system create criminals? (Page 2)

summerrain
summerrain: ok i just spent the last two days in jail over a warrant from a overdue speeding ticket. i slept in a tiny cell with 7 other woman. i slept on the concrete floor not even a foot away from the VERY public toilet. I'm not saying i shouldn't be punished for not going to court over the ticket but what i went through over this dam ticket was ridiculousness i mean two days in jail for going 15mph over the speed limit is a little harsh. not to mention the conditions were what i would call cruel and unusual punishment. Ive since been suspended from work due to not making my shift considered a no call no show Ive lost tons of money over that then the court cost. im gonna be so broke due to this dam ticket im not sure how im gonna pay my bills let alone live . i feel as though the system is a war on poverty. i cant afford to pay the ticket now since it has messed up my job. once they get you in the system your done for. its a never ending battle which does nothing but fill our jails and prisons and make the poor poorer. oh and this was also my first offense never being in the system this really opens my eyes and makes me want to say screw it all and take my family and move to a commune and never let the government have another dollar of my tax money cause i refuse to fill their cells for them anymore. and when i was there the guard tried to recruit me saying if you cant beat em join em. i couldn't believe my ears. i told him i would never treat another human being how i would not like to be treated. i would never cage someone if my life depended on it. they also cut off my necklace and laughed when i told them it was religious to me. i told the the truth that it was a huge dishonor to my tribe to take it off and they laughed at me and cut it off my neck anyway. when they could have put me in my own cell to avoid stomping on my religious rights views. Fw#@ THE GOVERNMENT PEACE IM OUT
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hitsugaya252
hitsugaya252: lol rain. a quiet person like you also started to lose coolness. i can't imagine, how people spent yrs and yrs in prison! and after comming out...
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summerrain
summerrain: me either, bet if i was gonna be sent away they wouldn't find me that's for sure i would be in the woods or in another country HAPPY HUNTING!!!!
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sugarshorts
sugarshorts: I have never been a threat to anyone I never stole scamed or physically hurt anyone for drugs, I'v always been an honest person and I'm always the first to discourage anyone from using. I'm a functioning user which means if i can afford it I'll do it and if I cant afford it I still get up and do what I have to do, I'm a pretty responsible person. Prison had nothing to do with the way I am now except it's made me a stronger woman. People need to stop judging drug addicts as a whole we are individuals and have our own reasons for doing what we do and not all of us are stealing lieing abusive people. I keep my addiction to myself. One thing I learned from this lesson is don't carry your drugs on you.
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Yahweh
Yahweh: sounds like you were an informed adult that made a consious choice to do drugs ,if no children were around while you were partaking ,what right does one human being have to tell another human being what they can and can't do with or put into or on their bodies ?,NONE ,My Creator endowed all living souls with FREE WILL ,No Man should infringe on anothers Free Will ,the police trick you into thinking you have done something you need to be punished for .BULL$HIT
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sugarshorts
sugarshorts: It wasn't really my choice my abusive mother put me on riddlin at the age of 4 till I was 12 she would pop them to me like candy It would put me to sleep so she didn't have to deal with me. I would wake up zooming like a race car so she would give me more or slap me around and lock me in my room. Whene she threw me out 13 then i was introduced to meth and I remember feeling normal again. The year I went with out I remeber feeling alittle off not my self. Every addicts situation is differant theres bad ones and good ones just like everything else has good and bad.
thanks for not judging me like most people do whene they know your an addict.
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Yahweh
Yahweh: I dated a lady that had a son they were trying to put on Rittalin or he couldn't stay in school as they said they couldn't handle him ,she sat in the back of the class and watched her boy ,he started getting figgety in his chair ,his mother took him into the gym and made him jog 2 laps ,he was fine and didn't figget all day .
they like to drug the kids so they don't have to deal with their personalities ,it is just wrong ,many are messed up from the ADD drugs ,
My nephew takes them ,my brother thinks the boy needs them ,i say no ,there is no such thing as ADD or ADHD ,they are invented disorders so the Pharmacuticle industry can make some tall dollars , give the kids fresh fruit and raw fresh veggies instead of pumping them full of Sugar [all the prepackaged foods are OVERLOADED with sugars ]and they won't be bouncing off the walls needing a pill, for a PERCIEVED disorder that was created from too much sugar ,Good for you kicking the bad habits ,used to have a few myself so who am I to judge anyone that way ,Enjoy life my friend Yahweh's Blessings to all this Sabbath
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sugarshorts
sugarshorts: I havn't kicked all the habits whene i don't use I have irregular heart beat that scares me because my heart has beat on some sort of speed my whole life. riddlin is just a legal speed and destroys more than it helps tell your brother to take those pills for 2 weeks and then decide if he wants to give that to his kid 73% of kids put on riddlin become drug addicts its not fair to the kid.
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Icy_Uranus
Icy_Uranus: My friend's cousin use to sell his ritalin at school to his friends so they could all whiz off their heads. Most kids prescribed don't need it, its just an easy fix for behavioural problems.


Pharmceutical Advert -
"Is your child acting like a child? Give them ritalin!!! Turn your child into a drug addicted zombie and they'll never behave like children again!!"
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sugarshorts
sugarshorts: that is so true icy
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hewhay
hewhay: Truer than you may think ,I know plenty of young adults that took that crap when they were in school ,the overpaid dumbing down babysitters[called teachers] couldn't handle the sass mouth and figetty kids so they drug them for a disorder that has NEVER been proven to exist.
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cjknows34
cjknows34: answer is yes! I know I been there... I had to isolate myself when I got out or else I knew I would go back. Took me 10 mos to find a job because in this state there is no need to do an official background check, its all there when they google ur name. Why do u think America has more people in prison per capita than anywhere else?
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Lazarus65
Lazarus65: I grew up as an addict, and have lived with addictionsince grade school. It has lead me to jail and prison where I got my GED 6 times and became a pastor and then a pagan. I cant say that prison made me a criminal Ive always been one. But I have seen first hand the effects of prison on those who have no bussiness being there. It is a place for the mistakes of youth to become the foundation for a life of crime. Gangs recruite from all over the world, with the promise of protection that is freely given, The youngest and greenest are targeted because of their shortime stattus. It is when they get out that the gangs squese them for assisstance outside the prisons, when saying no is not an option.But, with no rehabilitation or useable lifeskills, job training,or even the barest of prerelease prep. most inmates are given more obstacles than opportunaties upon release making it that much more likely that they break the law again. Prison has its place, for those who pose a cleare danger to society.rapists, childmolesters, and cold blooded murderers. But the curent system would have you think that those who prey on societies weakest are released and deemed reformed when there is no evidence that reform is at all effective or posible to make room in our prisons and jails for petty criminals. who far too offten made into career criminals with more contacts and a greater reach, as well as a thorough education in criminology from expert teachers and nothing better to do than perfect the craft.And share that knowledge.
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franklin1950
franklin1950: this has probably been said previously .
prisons create better , stronger criminals .
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Lazarus65
Lazarus65: Prison is a waste of space for the most part. Any self respecting criminal will use the opportunaty to do some networking,Where ,especialy,narcotics trafficing can go from a small town ,one man opperation to an interstate crimering with the potential to rake in billions.of dollars. You could say many of todays crime sindicates were sponsored by and educated through the prison system aand our tax dollars, well mostly your tax dollars. I was getting a free education. Now if I could only get a real job I wouldn't have to use that education to get my bills paid. Thanks
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Livefree22
Livefree22: I know for a fact that the system creates criminals, for the system dos not teach us how to find peace within ourselves, or teach us how to have awareness around our thoughts so we can choose our actions. instead most of the populous make's choices made based off reactions to the outer world and our emotions towards it, stemming from our minds tort perceptions. (good and bad, black and white) or sometimes we don't even have that morality, its just all grey to the mind, that's how we get killers. they have been so desencertised by the world teachings and cold brutality, that they no longer have any hart for humanity or the system. (most of these individual's are quite smart) why is it that smart people end up being the most crazed! because we never wear tort the way of balance, so we become over ruled via our perception's,teaching and thoughts. the mind is out of control!

The system teaches us to be slaves (sheep or hand tort consumers) they say to us this is reality this is the way you haft to live and most believe the lie! some even re enforce the lie to feed there greed and keep there place among the wealthy. the lie is constantly being feed to us via the media (tv, newspapers ect)

so to put it in simple terms, the government and the rulers of this world know that we are the power, so they lie to us and put fer in us, they place a big shinning diamond in front of us and tell us we can not have it! yet they do not teach us how to control our selves. so end result is people snap and go out of control, then the government makes money off these people and so the lie continues to be feed!

But this will not last forever, we are more then what our mind have been made to believe, and we can have a better world! a fare world! because we are the legs they stand on, we are the 99%, and we will not tolerate the greed of the 1% no longer! we can tack back our right to freedom peaceful! via re connecting to our inner beings and educating ourselves!

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Lazarus65
Lazarus65: Be the change you wish to see in the world. We all have untapped power for we are gods, the sons and daughters of god. It is our ultimate evolutionary goal to create heavon or hell through our decisions and coarse. I like your post and I pray more awaken to the tradgedy that is our civilization. Keep hope alive by helping just one human. We still have time and the power of good just may prevail,
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Evelyn99
Evelyn99: I think the focus on rehabilitation is not very good here. Ideally you should live after sentencing with a good chance for a job perhaps a new education and a situation where your previous lifestyle doesn’t apply to you no more
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