Untitled-343 by Jay Goodman
And I look around me in prison and wonder at times what with some of my fellow prisoners do if they were given a second chance at life? Sadly, if the federal bureau of prisons were to release all of its prisoners today, without a doubt, I’d say 90% of them would be back in prison within a year or so. Truthfully, these numbers might be higher. In the cell Block, I’ve lived in, I know around 10 people who have been released and are back on a parole violation.
Most didn’t make it out of here. That’s just my cell block, I can only imagine how many people there must be back on violation throughout the prison system. And out of the 128 people in my cell block, easily over 100 of them have been to prison before. What is it that keeps bringing prisoners back to prison? As I’ve written over and over again, how can the men who come here be rehabilitated under the conditions in which we are forced to live? And since there is no rehabilitation, of course, not many people will change. I am sure most people in the free world would think after five, 10 or maybe 20 years in prison, that would be enough to change anyone. And that is true in the sense it does change everyone of us, but the change is a change of someone being molded by help, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. Instead, prisoners are molded by gangs, drugs, and a corrupt prison system that cares absolutely nothing about the people in their care. Besides at the prisoners are forced to endure months and months of being locked in their cells.
It’s amazing that the government hasn’t been on the federal Bureau of prisons about how it’s run. I would think there would be someone that could see the system is broken and is in desperate need of revamping. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like or care about the people in here. I am in prison and don’t like the majority of people in here either. But there are prisoners in this place who can be rehabilitated under the right circumstances. Look at it this way, I said earlier that if the federal prison system was to release everyone today, around 90% would be back within the year. Imagine if that 90% could be cut down to 50% take a serious look at how much better that would be for society. Remember, it’s the tax dollars that keeps prisons up and running. And more importantly, instead of releasing men who’s seen molded by drugs and gangs, who are turned into serial killers because of the way prisons are running operated. Imagine half or more of the prisons that leave go on to be an asset to their families and to society. This is a very realistic goal, it’s not a dream, it can easily be accomplished under the right conditions. As it stands now, 90% or more will return. So, there is nothing to lose.
Especially now in the United States, there needs to be some very serious reform if American wants to reduce crime. Because he only way to make any type of changes will have to come through rehabilitation. It’s very obvious the current system in place is a failure people who run the system, and the people in Washington have to except this, and do whatever is necessary to turn the federal bureau of prisons around. There is without a doubt a need for prisons. There are some very bad man inside these places who don’t want to change, who have decided this is the life they want to live.
Well, one of the easiest solutions is to take all of the gang members and take them out of the population. Move into certain prisons and put all of them together. Don’t allow them to have control over the prison system, lock all of them down. Make it a place where they have very limited movement. By doing this, the prison system has taken control of these gangs Away from them and now the prisoners who want to work on themselves can be rehabilitated. Because right now, as it is, no one has this opportunity. If a man goes to United States penitentiary, he will be forced to join something or be stabbed or killed. There is not an option. So instead of allowing this to go on, take it away from them.
One would think this would have been done a long time ago. But for whatever reason it hasn’t. I have a few thoughts on this, and after spending years, thinking about it, I believe I’m right. Back in the time before there was hundreds of gangs, men in prison had an understanding among each other. We are very respectful toward one another, and the staff. If a white, black, or Mexican was causing problems, their own race with sit them down and get them right. And if, for whatever reason that didn’t work, then they would force that man to leave. There was an understanding between the guards and the prisoners, we conduct ourselves, like men, and they left us alone. But through the years, the gang problems have grown and grown. Also, the drug problems have also grown out of control. While there have always been gangs in the past, they are not that many, and they were not in control of the prisons. But over the years, they’ve grown in numbers, and because of drugs the gang started to make a lot of money inside the prison systems. And as the numbers grew, their power throughout, the prisons grew. To eventually, it got to the point where you either join them or you would be killed. Whatever race you were, soon as you arrive to the prison the first day, they would sit you down and give you an option. You can run with us, or you can die. Not much of an option. Also, the drug use among the people in here has grown out of control. And I am not talking about these people smoking a little marijuana like the past. The gangs are smoking, K-2, meth, fentanyl, and other types of mind-altering drugs. These drugs are eating away at their brain at such a high rate, that they’re nowhere near the thinking level they should be for their age. I have personally witnessed what happened to people in here after years of smoking K-2. They are damn near retarded. It’s amazing to see men in their mid-20s and up having a conversation in here. I am not joking, it’s like they have lost all reality, they live in a complete fantasy world. They have nothing, they want nothing they strive for nothing of meaning, they don’t have any goals. They don’t care about their families or even themselves. They’re only ambition in life is to get high and say hi. As I was saying, “ one would think the federal bureau of prisons would’ve done something to change this.�? Now as I was also saying, “I have some thoughts on this.�? They understand what’s going on in here. Everything I just said about the gangs and drugs, has been going on for decades. Since they know this, why hasn’t something been done by now to suck the cycle? For one, the prison system wants chaos among us, the prison system can use this to put us against each other. They can also use this to their advantage. Say the administration doesn’t like a certain prisoner, they will use the gangster either to beat, stab, remember that prisoner. Plus, the gangs are useful for all of the corruption that is going on in here. Who better to sell the drugs they bring in here? And if something happens in here, because of the gangs, the administration can lock us down for weeks or months.
Now, they don’t have to do anything just come in and sit in their offices, and watch movies on their computers, are go to sleep. Stopping crime across United States begins in here. If you want, the man who come here to change and leave rehabilitated, the federal bureau of prisons must remove the gangs in the control they have inside here. If not, the crime rate will continue to climb in society, as a whole will only get worse.
