Received on July 5, 2011
As part of the ERP, one of our
assignments is to do a review on some current event in the paper each
week. This article deals with prisoners such as myself, involved in
an early release program, and the review that I submitted in my
program.
In comment to this article, I'd like
to add a short quote from “Save My Son”, a book by Maralys Wills
and Mike Carona. “One in every thirty-four adult Americans is
incarcerated or on probation or parole. Eighty percent of all
convicted criminals, nationwide, have a drug component in their
crimes. Twenty-one percent of the inmates in California jails are
there for drug offenses alone. So what's the solution? Build more
jails? Mandate longer sentences? Or attack the problem at it's
root?”
I personally think we could save our
state more money by using the money that is being spent to assess,
evaluate, and observe the inmates under the Act 28 guidelines, and
INSTEAD use this money for rehabilitating our state's growing drug
and alcohol problem. If we could minimize the source of the problem,
we could then minimize the need for overpriced institutions, overpaid
corrections workers and other staff, and ultimately alleviate the
budget and costs over time.
Until later....
~J.Doe
