Re: Inmate E-Mail (someone guessed right)

["Brance Amussen" <brance () jhu edu>]

Well if inmate email is going to be the beginnings of rehabilitation, and
support, for the nations inmates I call dibs on the 2G "Inmate Facebook"!  

I'll make a killing! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:35 PM
To: Brance Amussen
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Inmate E-Mail (someone guessed right)

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:59:29 EST, Brance Amussen said:
> That's what snail mail is for, visitation days. Poor kids yes, but 
> ultimately maybe they learn not to be like mom, or dad who's in jail.

Actually, the evidence is pretty high that the kids from families where a
parent is in jail have a *higher* chance of ending up in jail themselves.

Google for "parental figure crime" and let me know which way the reality
slants.
How far down do you have to go before you find a citation that supports the
idea that lacking a parent convinces them to not do the same thing?

> highly doubt (while perhaps possible) that familial contact would 
> actually be an impetus for going straight, a support group perhaps, 
> but a reason, not likely. It's far more likely that lack of familial 
> contact is an underlying cause of the incarceration.

You *do* realize that lack of a support group is a major cause of
recidivism?
Who's more likely to come back to incarceration, the guy who's got a wife
and kids that he has a reason to stay straight, or the guy who's lost them
and doesn't have any real reason anymore to try hard to stay straight?

And even if lack of family contact is an underlying *cause*, maybe that
should be a hint that addressing the lack and *fixing that problem* might
help in actually rehabilitating the person so they don't come back?  I mean,
if you had somebody who'd shown up in the ER 3 or 4 times with issues that
were due to an underlying problem with high blood pressure or something,
wouldn't you consider treating that so they didn't end up in the ER again?


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