Our prisons are more populated per capita than any other country in the world. The recidivism rates are ridiculous, repeat offenders are not rehabilitated and what about the responsibility of raising the rascals? Many agree that rehabilitation is best but there, but I also agree on responsibility of parents and of self. Many are not so much into the forgiving thing when it comes to criminals, whether they are in jail, walking the streets or straddling the law working for both sides; IE law enforcement, lawyer, government worker. There needs to be responsibility for those who have offspring to raise them right and take care of them. We make people get drivers licenses to drive a car, but not have children. It costs on average $250,000 to raise a kid until adulthood, for those who have not the money, or care not to spend it to make things right. Well why should the teachers be baby sitting them, why should doctors prescribe Ritilin, Prozac or some other such medicine and why should I the taxpayer have to pay for rehabilitation, police, probation officers, prisons or the salary of the guards on top of potentially being a victim of a crime? Some propose rehabilitation and I am leaning more on a $ .22 solution for hardened criminals, child molesters and violent ones. Because rehabilitation is not working and the taxpayer keeps paying. What are we going to do in our civilization with our prison systems? What can we do to rehabilitate? What we are doing now does not work and we all know it? We must face the reality of these recidivism rates and work to make more parents responsible. Consider all this in 2006. |
