This blog has a tendency to focus on ending the death penalty and wrongful convictions, but it is about prison in general. It is a fact that the way the prison and justice system in the USA is run, does not work in lowering crime, deterring criminals or rehabilitating offenders. It seems the more there are incarcerated, the higher the crime rate is.
One of the most powerful influences in anyone's life is peer pressure. Prison does not take advantage of this, keeping inmates away from family and friends, charging abhorrent amounts of money for phone calls home and even encouraging racial tension within the prison. If anything, the prison system encourages recidivism. It is my very firm belief that the prison system causes crime.
There are a lot of things that can be changed in order to help this, such as more time with families, friends and the outside world to encourage a sense of accountability, responsibilities within the prison, etc. One of these things though, that I am sure can help lower recidivism, and that you can do, is write to a prisoner. Become a friend to someone who doesn't have many. When you have someone to do good by in your life, you tend to do good a lot more often. Here are some great penpal services to help you find someone on the inside to connect with and be a positive influence to.
WriteAPrisoner.com - http://www.writeaprisoner.com/
Prisonpost - http://www.prisonpost.com/
LostVault - http://www.lostvault.com/
Inmate-Connection - http://www.inmate-connection.com/
InmatesForYou.com - http://www.inmatesforyou.com/
Inmate Classified - http://www.inmate.com/
Meet-An-Inmate - http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/
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Technorati Tags: prison, penpal, inmate, incarcerated, recidivism, crime, law
One of the most powerful influences in anyone's life is peer pressure. Prison does not take advantage of this, keeping inmates away from family and friends, charging abhorrent amounts of money for phone calls home and even encouraging racial tension within the prison. If anything, the prison system encourages recidivism. It is my very firm belief that the prison system causes crime.
There are a lot of things that can be changed in order to help this, such as more time with families, friends and the outside world to encourage a sense of accountability, responsibilities within the prison, etc. One of these things though, that I am sure can help lower recidivism, and that you can do, is write to a prisoner. Become a friend to someone who doesn't have many. When you have someone to do good by in your life, you tend to do good a lot more often. Here are some great penpal services to help you find someone on the inside to connect with and be a positive influence to.
WriteAPrisoner.com - http://www.writeaprisoner.com/
Prisonpost - http://www.prisonpost.com/
LostVault - http://www.lostvault.com/
Inmate-Connection - http://www.inmate-connection.com/
InmatesForYou.com - http://www.inmatesforyou.com/
Inmate Classified - http://www.inmate.com/
Meet-An-Inmate - http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/
To see an archived list of all Sunday Sites, click here. To suggest a site for Sunday Sites, click here
Technorati Tags: prison, penpal, inmate, incarcerated, recidivism, crime, law
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