Do You Think That Drug Treatment Programs in Prisons Are Effective? Why or Why Not? What Needs to Be Changed?
Question by ganicity: Do you think that drug treatment programs in prisons are effective? Why or why not? What needs to be changed?
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Answer by bob6543
i dont think they work. i dont think anything can be done to make them work
Answer by Nightrider
Trooper above me is absolutely correct. Our current recidvism rate in Ohio is 84% and shows no signs of reducing itself. If you compare this to the recidvism rate during the 1930’s through the 1960’s ( 15%), it clearly shows a complete fallacy of the “kindler,gentler” liberalism that permeates the upper echelons of the Department. The brain trusts are constantly dreaming up “new and improved” modules to help reduce these numbers, primarily being focused within drug treatment and drug reeducation.
The problem is that it is being force fed to all the inmates coming through the system. Mandatory attendance but non mandatory participation. You cannot FORCE anyone to accept rehabilitation. This can only be successful when a person wants to make a change and accepts the tools and training being offered. When the offender is released right back to the exact environment he left and the same circle of acquaintences/friends that brought him to prison to begin with, he is already back on the slippery slope and it is only a matter of time before he catches a new case.
A majority of the change that MUST occur to reverse this is to bring back the Civil Death that existed up until the 1970’s.Bring back the prison workshop where inmates worked 8 hours every day manufacturing items that were sold on the public market to help reduce the public burden of their incarceration. This also teaches them to get up every morning and report to work. Today, the inmate sleeps in and sits around, either watching tax payer supplied 60 inch color tvs or working out in tax payer supplied gyms or sitting in the tax payer supplied legal library desperately pouring over case records to see if they can find a loophole to help overturn their case ( not based on being innocent, but hoping for a mistake of legal jurisprudence that can overturn the case due to violation of prosecution of law).
There is NO deterrent to being incarcerated today. Life is easy, the prison grounds look like a college campus with razor wire on the perimeter and the inmates now have FAR more rights than you or I and they know every single one of them. Doing a year or two is just part of “life” when dealing drugs for a living and is accepted.
Unless and until this mind set is brought about again and more strict lifestyles are brought back behind the wire, you will see a proliferation of inmates returning again and again. The only good thing ( if you can say anything good about this) is that it is now a cottage industry and provides some measure of job security. Ohio is currently housing just over 50,000 inmates ( this is their published figure) and our system is designed and built to house 36,000. The published statistics ( again, by the head honchos ) is that we will house over 60,000 by the year 2012. This represents 164% over max population. This is literally a powder keg waiting to explode and the drain to the tax payer is just going up and up.
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