#CAN OUR PRISONS SYSTEM BE REFORMED?

Can our prison system be reformed? To change this system requires it to give up its usual way of thinking about how it punish and incarcerates. Today's 'Justice Reform' is a joke, reform is another word used to hustle tax dollars. Million of dollars are given to the public defender's fund for reforming how defendants are represented, however, nothing changed other than the money that changed hands. Public and private prisons are equally tied to the corporate-economy and constitute an ever-growing source of capitalist profit. Many companies make millions by selling their products to correctional facilities, prison staff and state and federal legislators also collects millions off of contracts and kick-backs. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is paid per prisoner. If the supply dries up or too many prisoners are released too early, their profits are affected. Longer prison terms means greater profits, the profit motive promotes the expansion of imprisonment. A system where punishment has become a source of profit, is a system that has lost the meaning of justice. Those within the system sees nothing wrong with our prison system, because doing business as usual benefits them in one way or another. Movies, documentaries and TV programs like Oz, Cops, & The First 48 has many thinking they know what really goes on in prison, but its all smoke and mirrors. In the name of justice and victims rights, our criminal justice system has put emphasis on punitive policies that support 'Mass Incarceration'. Mass Incarceration, is more than just locking people up, its about BIG MONEY! Mass Incarceration, has generated profits more than 1 billion in one year off of phone calls alone in prisons and jails nationwide. In the 1980's the nation started going left on rehabilitation and over the last 30 years state and federal prisons systems has cut or eliminated most programs to educate, train, and counseling to prepare men and women for a successful return to society. A system that does next to nothing to help people to avoid prison or to reintegrate back into society upon release, invites failure and crime. Who profits other than the prison system from unintelligent prisoners, who are unprepared to make good decisions to avoid crime and prison? Many are skeptical about the government having the best interest of law-abiding citizens, let alone those who have violated the law. Some states that have seek to reduce the drain on their budgets by their prisons, by identifying nonviolent offenders who can be released early as the solution, they are just putting a band-aide on a bullet wound to appease the notion of political-backlash for stronger reform. The clear waste of tax payers dollars and human lives should drive us towards reform. How do we reform a system that is in a self-defeating cycle of crime and punishment? If a system is seen as corrupt, unfair, or unjust, those subject to it will be less inclined to respect it. We can say our criminal system is broken, but until we fully confront the facts by a broader numbers of the general population, the people will continual to be fleeced.

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." Aristotle

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