We hear every day about the same old things with what is going on in our government, on the T.V., radios newpapers, computers, etc. Now don’t get me wrong but, those things are important but, I would like to write about something that has always been puzzling to me. I read a post in the New York Times called “Out of Jail, and Into a Job.” Very interesting post and it grabbed my attention.
I’m sure we all know of someone who has been incarcerated one time or another and maybe not even for something really big. Once you enter into that system you are looked down on and judged for the rest of your life. In the article that I read it’s about a program that is designed to help ex offenders from returning to prison by educating them and helping them with job training. I feel this is important because as taxpayers we spend a lot to money building prison and keeping non violent offenders incarcerated. Why? We should be spending the money to educate them and getting them to work so they can to make a living. The gentlemen that has this company is in New York but, he is also an ex offender. To me that just go to show us all that just because you have been to prison that you can’t give back. He knew the mind frame that prison gives you and sometimes how hard it is to readjust to being in society, again so, to give back to his community he helped ex offenders and at the same time help the city save money. I feel if we don’t show ex offenders that we need them as well, than I feel it’s a higher chance that they will become repeat offenders.
