tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107037609455779557.post3044690340635765326..comments2024-02-28T05:56:28.293-08:00Comments on California Correctional Crisis: A Personal PerspectiveHadar Aviramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200780666976305749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107037609455779557.post-12714112396595747102008-11-11T12:16:00.000-08:002008-11-11T12:16:00.000-08:00Apply for a job in the CD(R)C, and you probably co...Apply for a job in the CD(R)C, and you probably could see what life is like from the inside. It wont be the same as actually being a prisoner there but it could give you an idea of about what it is like without being one.<BR/><BR/>After being one myself I have seen the cruelties, but the cruelties that I saw came mostly from my fellow prisoners. Enough so that I'm glad that there is a prison system to keep these people out of society.<BR/><BR/>The cruelest thing about the system is parole. Parole should never be for such a lengthy amount of time.<BR/><BR/>Parole is by design a failure. There are stumbling blocks so high from the first day for a parolee that it is almost impossible not to receive a violation.<BR/><BR/>Take this for an example, you are given what is called release funds in the amount of 200.00 dollars. Out of this 200 you may be charged for release clothing. That can set you back about 40 bucks.<BR/>Then you are charged with transportation from what is left. Depending from which prison you are released from that can take a vast majority if your funds. <BR/>Now your back in town as to where you paroled. Hope you have a place to stay. If not if you have any money left what do you do get a motel/hotel room for the night or eat and huddle up in a door way until you go and see your PO the next day. <BR/>I could write a small book about my experience. But I wont indulge here further.I just hope I have gotten my point out here.Jerry Jarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712358982227504850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107037609455779557.post-10479308345685912102008-11-06T10:27:00.000-08:002008-11-06T10:27:00.000-08:00Wow, what an amazing, powerful post.And, yes, I wa...Wow, what an amazing, powerful post.<BR/><BR/>And, yes, I was thinking the same thing when I heard Pro 9 had passed. The fact that Californians have voted in support of keeping prisoners behind bars for longer is not a measure of their cruelty, but an outcome of seeing crime and corrections as problems of the "other". <BR/><BR/>The first and foremost thing that needs to happen before any reform or redemption can come to our correctional system is empathy.Hadar Aviramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15200780666976305749noreply@blogger.com