Prison release reentry survey

[Anonymous]

This survery was commissioned by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency to gauge
public opinion on reentry issues....

http://www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/2006a ... _zogby.pdf


Some highlights:

- 70% support state-funded rehabilitation services both during incarceration and after release.

- Around 60% say that lack of life skills, the effects of the prison experience, and obstacles to reentry are each major factors that account for
recidivism.  Only 21% said inherent criminality was a major factor in recidivism, and 38% said it was not a factor.

- 82% say access to job training is very important for successful reentry. This was followed by drug treatment, which 79% said was very important.

- 44% believe planning for reentry should begin at sentencing.  Another 47% believe it should begin either one year or six months prior to release.
Only 8% believe reentry planning should begin upon release (7%) or should not be provided (1%).

- 78% "somewhat support" or "strongly support" the Second Chance Act.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting that.

Its interesting, but somewhat irrelevant because as soon as any measure to initiate these programs appears on a tax ballot, the same supporters walk from the voting booths with a foot in their mouth.

I wont quote random numbers, but the percentage of people encarcerated who were influenced by alcohol or drugs during the comencement of their crimes is astounding.
Addiction leads to crime, crime leads to prison, prison does nothing to treat the addiction on a medical level. In fact, the prison system in this country has no shortage of drugs within it.

Though the encarcerated in this country need and deserve to be punished for their cimes, this business our gov calls the war on drugs keeps the door open for them by refusing to treat addiction on any effective medical level.
The gov is simply protecting their assets by continually refusing to recognize addiction and alcoholism as anything other than a social condition of choice,  rather than the uncontrollable physiological disease it is.

Treat the disease, and recidivsm will decline rapidly.