Simply because when a person goes through rehab, according to the definition, it is a form of treatment used to store a person back to good life. So when prisoners go through rehabilitation they are taught how to live a productive life free of crime among society. Besides being a cost to the prisons and to taxpayers it affects in other ways. When they think about those who finish the program and end up back in jail they come to the conclusion that …show more content…
I am one person who firmly believes that this program works and should be given the credit that it is due. What we do not realize is that the program did exactly what it was set to do: treat the criminals; the problem is that we do not give them a chance to do better.
Think about it if they take a person who has known nothing but crime and change them, but do not give those people a chance to put that change into action; what do they think will happen? Chances are that person will revert back to their old self because we make it so hard to live right. Then the first thing that we say is that the rehab program is not working; but in actuality it is us that seem to be not working, and we need to correct our attitude toward ex-convicts in order for that program to work.
There are different types of release that convicts can attend. For example, there is parole which, to me is still in jail just without the bars. According to the state, a person is still incarcerated but they have very little freedom. When on parole you are assigned a parole officer who explains the rules and regulations that state what you can and cannot do. He logs your address down in a file in order for the state to know your whereabouts. As a parolee one of your responsibilities is to get a job to pay monthly fees for parole and to maintain a living. You have a curfew, …show more content…
When you think about all of the things that this program have accomplished it makes you wonder how people say that it does not work. Once you look at the statistics it draws you to the conclusion that the program is effective, and it accomplished what it was set up to do.
When you compare our prison system with that of Russia, for example, it is completely different. The main goal of the system there is punishment not rehabilitation. Solitary confinement in other countries is sometimes longer than one-year, and the cells are too small for the inmates to fully stretch out. They beat them with Billy clubs, and their fore has been given the name torture prisons (Vermeulen, 2011). Just imagine if our prison system decided to conform to their way of handling things. Our prisoners would not last and they definitely would not be repeat offenders. They have it so easy in our prison system that it does not hurt them to go back. We need to make our punishment legally harder and we will see a change in those who like to make prison their