A brief break from my travelogue. Next time I'll finish that 8th day out boom through the rest of them because I don't have lots of cool photos from them.
I work where no one wants to work with people that most of the world would just love to forget exists or maybe they'd like to visit harm upon them. Yes, that's right for 20 years yours truly has worked in a prison that houses medium security adult male felons. For the last 14 of those years I've been a teacher. My teachers aides are inmates, one has life without (meaning he ain't never ever never no way how shape form or fashion getting out of prison) and the other one will flatten his sentence when he is 71.
To those who lobby for longer sentences and less parole.
a. You are creating job security for thousands.
b. You are creating an inmate population that will inevitably become hard or nigh impossible to manage. A fellow that has no hope of ever getting out of prison no matter how he behaves or what programs he complies with or completes has no real incentive to act like an adult. He knows he has to be fed, to receive medical care and live in an environmentally controlled situation. Now that's welfare.
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