This article states that our prisons, as well as the Federal Government behind our prisons, are not doing their jobs correctly; giving us statistics, facts and situations to back it up. Prisons have gone from being a 'scared straight' model to just being another place to rep your gang and lay your head for a while. Instead of trying to instill concepts of what they should be striving for instead of what they are decidedly striving for, the prisons are bringing them in and sending them off to do what they were on the streets, the only difference is now they have a large, confined audience. Instead of taking them out of their environments and changing their pace, they are just putting them in the same rut, even letting them get farther into their trends. If people aren't subjected to different environments and don't see a change in others, what would provoke them to change?
I'm not exactly sure what would help change the prison system for the better. From experience within my family and throughout my life in general, I know that people will always just do what they want. You could give them everything they would ever need to be on a "straight and narrow path" but that doesn't mean that they will follow the trail. Every single person's mind works at a different pace with different motions inside of different parameters, yet we all try and treat them the exact same as the others. It's not shocking to hear that our systems aren't working because I don't believe that there is really one set way to get every person who has fallen of the path, a way to climb back up.
