Prisoners Should Get Free Education to Reduce Recidivism, Newt Gingrich Says

Christian Post ^ | 05/21/2014 | Michael Gryboski

[Lurker]

Dear Newt,

Shut up.

Thanks,

L

[itsahoot]

Are people who leave prison being rehabilitated or not?

If they are not, they shouldn't be leaving.

[tennmountainman]

Would you hire a convicted felon to hang Sheetrock at your house?

[JimRed]

The only education many of them want is how to not get caught next time.

[PeterPrinciple]

Except that...

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There is no easy solution. Most prisoners want to change while they are in prison. Some do change, most don’t. It is easier to go back to what you were doing than to change once you get out. Remember the proverb about a dog going back to its vomit.

I worked with Innerchange Freedom Initiative a Christian based program. The recidivism was a little better than the normal population but not a lot.

There is no magic bullet here. But the guys in prison are a reflection of us also. There are some things I need to change in my life and I know it like exercise, eating habits, etc, and I try but the reality is I probably won’t. But my bad habits so far, don’t land me in jail.

My observation is that most guys that changed would have changed anyway whether in prison or not. But, sometimes a little thing you do can make a difference in a persons life or at least God can use it.

“working out your salvation with fear and trembling” is not an easy path. Some change instantly, others it is a lifelong process. BUT MOST OF US DO NOT CHANGE........

[okie01]

But, sometimes a little thing you do can make a difference in a persons life or at least God can use it.

I completely agree with your premise. My comment is not directed toward individual and volunteer efforts to reduce recidivism -- faith-based and otherwise. Indeed, these are the only devices that are likely to have a positive impact.

Instead, my comment was directed toward the kind of ponderous, expensive government-based bureaucratic effort that Newt was proposing. It would surely result in just another failed government program.

[xrmusn]

By the time the adults are in prison, the majority of them had already screwed up 12 years of free education.

Wasn’t it the Russian Gulags that the prisoners were dropped off at the end of the rail line.

They were to build a ‘village’ and extend the rail road as far as they were able, knowing the next train would go to the end of the line so you are better off having the ‘newbies’ be as far away from you as possible.

That is killing a whole bunch of birds with one concept.

[Theophilus]

Gingrich is not a conservative because every conservative knows that nothing is free.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear drunknsage,

People were sent to prison, because they committed a serious crime.

1. Can you spout one legitimate source, that says that herion, cocaine, pcp, ecstacy, and any other illicit drug, has any beneficial, and nutritious addings to the human body?
For all my years alive, all of that has been considered poisons, therefore, those selling and distributing poisons, are worthy of death.

2. The move to “rehabilitation”, is an idea fostered by liberals, not by conservatives. “We must try to understand what makes them tick, so we can go in there, and make it right.”

Nope. It is THE THUG that has always decided: what property already owned by somebody else, what risk is there to take it; would they have to walk over that person’s already dead body, to get it; when to commit the crime; and where.

You asked me if I like to resolve issues, right?

My solution would only cost one dollar per convict; not be a burden on the electric grid system; not be a happenstance event, as is now going on with lethal injections, although it is one; and would be complete. Although, if you think that is too expensive, we could use “the Pancho Villa method”, don’t you think?

Lastly, have you ever been robbed, raped, threatened with bodily harm by a group of individuals, shot at, attacked with a knife, and all of this within the Continental U.S.?

[Terry L Smith]

Rehabilitation should be to make it so horrible a place to be, that no one would dare wish to go there, or do crimes, to return there, because they cannot handle the outside world.

Rapists and murderers should NOT serve time, but be dispatched.

[xzins]

BS. Prisoners should be fed high fat 5000 calorie a day diets and allowed unlimited cigarettes. They should have couches and TVs and no weight rooms. They should get zero exercise at all. The best prisoner is 400 pounds with clogged arteries, short breath, and little physical ability to catch anyone or appeal to anyone.