signalsScared Straight Does NOT Work
April 6th 2008 17:37
Im the late 70s I saw a movie at my school called Scared Straight. The idea was to take a group of juvenile delimquents or wannabes to a prison where the prisoners try to wake them up to real prison life. They were kind of forced to see real prison life before making a stupid life-altering decision to end up there.
Now in the UK they are attempting to do the same basic thing. Shock the teens by sending them to prison so that they will alter their future by not making stupid decisions. I say that someone is making money off of something that has been proven to FAIL! Even in the United States these programs continue even though they have been proven to have an opposite effect and not work.
Birds of a feather...holds especially true when it comes to peers and criminals. Unless the peers change it will be business as usual for criminals. In today's violent world of gangs where members are prepared to die, going to prison is like going to Club Med!
Real criminals in prisons, even on death row, have cable TV, libraries, internet, meals, shelter, medical, dental, etc. And most criminals know it, and take full advantage of the tax payers' benefits. Some even waste tax dollars on frivolous lawsuits such as creamy vs. crunchy peanut butter!
So lets continue funding programs that serve no purpose than to waste money that should be spent on a rod when they are children.
Now in the UK they are attempting to do the same basic thing. Shock the teens by sending them to prison so that they will alter their future by not making stupid decisions. I say that someone is making money off of something that has been proven to FAIL! Even in the United States these programs continue even though they have been proven to have an opposite effect and not work.
Birds of a feather...holds especially true when it comes to peers and criminals. Unless the peers change it will be business as usual for criminals. In today's violent world of gangs where members are prepared to die, going to prison is like going to Club Med!
Real criminals in prisons, even on death row, have cable TV, libraries, internet, meals, shelter, medical, dental, etc. And most criminals know it, and take full advantage of the tax payers' benefits. Some even waste tax dollars on frivolous lawsuits such as creamy vs. crunchy peanut butter!
So lets continue funding programs that serve no purpose than to waste money that should be spent on a rod when they are children.
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