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Our Nations Systems and Institutions Depend on Recidivism For Survival And Profits
They prey on the young, vulnerable, and humans they view as nothing more than low-hanging fruit to turn into a statistic.
I’m from Philadelphia, which by default qualifies me to write about crime, the law, and punishment. There were two prisons and a police district within walking distance of my home growing up. Both prisons are somewhat infamous, Holmesburg prison for its history as it’s no longer operational to my knowledge — and Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility — where two prisoners recently escaped from, and where many people I grew up with and around, currently reside. Some, for the rest of their natural born lives, barring a miracle pardon or a change in their case.
Listen, some of them deserve to be there. Maybe even for life. All I know for sure is there are a lot of people in that building who don’t deserve to be there, and maybe never did in the first place. To pretend our Nation’s Justice system is foolproof is a joke. We leave the fates of humans, in the hands of twelve (or thirteen if you count the judge) other fallible humans. There are people who made a single terrible decision in the heat of a moment as children, who will reside in that building, and others just like it all over…
