Second chances

Re: your Sept. 27 article, “Supervisors to get inmate plan”:

Most of you have no idea about the prisons and prisoners. Sure there's lots of creeps, but there are many who want to change and aren't allowed. Rehabilitation? What a waste of money. What good is rehabilitation if when they get out no one will hire them.

People complain about recidivism, but how many of you would last more than a week without returning to crime? If you have no money, no support of any kind and you are hungry or had kids who were hungry, what would you do? If you have a record you can't even get food stamps.

Prisoners do their time, but society continues to punish them when they get out. They finally give up and knock over a liquor store to eat. Charities are already overwhelmed. Maybe you all think they should just eat out of dumpsters to survive, huh?

- Larry Kwiatkowski,

Simi Valley


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kay writes:

Are you serious?

Chances are ridiculously small there isn't someone who deserves help more then you.

Find a Church, if you are serious about wanting help, which I doubt since you are still thinking about hurting others.

You have children? In all your nonworking time do you teach them to be kind and good them with their education?

You seem to be writing rather well for a convict.

Rascal writes:

Larry, you need to lose that chip on your shoulder lest you're gonna go back to the joint for an even longer time. As for rehabilitation: the first priority of prison is to isolate thugs from society for the protection of society, after that comes punishment for the crime(s) they committed, and then if there's enough money we can talk about rehab. Kind of like a death spiral into hell, huh? Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!


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