"Everyone Pays"
"[The toughest crimnals in the country live
in prisons are essentially “human warehouses' not institutes of reform.
If your like most americans, your probably hard-pressed to find sympathy
for this difficult issue. Most of us is fed up with crime and relieved
the government is cracking down, we’d rather spend our money getting criminals
offf the street then providing them with creature comforts, rehabilitation
in prison...Prison officials understands the publics insistance in making
inmate life more difficult, but many think that by removing all forms of
recreation has robbed them of basic management tools. Britton believes
that if these harmless diversions like books, classes and television are
taken away entirely that the staff might be in danger of harm. threat
of harm,' says Britton, “because they are going to be the ones that have
to deal with the frustration, the anger.…[Prisoners] arent going to takes
out all that frustration & anger on each other.' Both long-time inmates
and prison officials say that the world behind bars is changing and becoming
more volatile and dangerous as sentences grow longer, incentives for good
behavior are eliminated and prisons get more crowded. Are America’s `corrections
facilities turning out criminals who are even harder and more prone
to violence and more likely to commit crimes again.]"
- excerpted from ABCNews.com
Nightline in Primetime: “Crime and Punishment,”
Part II
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