nice one and quite interesting..especially the area
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On top of social ostracization, ex-convicts are usually ineligible for welfare, food stamps, student loans or public housing, so it's small wonder over 70% of them turn to crime again.
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this reminds me why most of the former prison inmates prefer to turn back to crime to be sent back to prison, as such, they get to be taken care of by public funds. The US prison system is ovebloated and i wonder if the number will ever reduce since private capitalists are cashing in on humans tenants as such, they are indirectly as the maxists will say benefactors of the system...
on a lighter note, US prison system is a far cry as regards what is obtainable in developing worlds where prison cells are more like nazi era concentration camps where prisoners enter and turn into hardened criminals. the way forward, most crimes of which people are incarcerated can be removed like drug issues related to marijuana and the likes, depopulation of the prison will help save enough funds which shd be directed to other sectors.
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