Author: NeverGiveUp
I’m here in an effort to help people outside the prison system understand what they are supporting with their tax dollars.
Let me be direct: given the violence and rejection and lack of resources dedicated to correcting offenders while incarcerated, I don’t believe there’s any sincere interest in lessening crime on the part of the GDC. Which is to say there’s no interest by GDC in releasing people equipped to succeed better than when they were incarcerated.
Think about what that means. If the system isn’t trying to help people do better when they get out, then it’s not trying to create fewer victims of crime going forward. It’s that simple. This whole system has no sincere respect for preventing future victims.
So people outside should be alerted to the fact they are supporting a system that is ultimately victimizing their own selves no matter what tool is being used to do it. Your tax dollars aren’t making you safer. They’re funding a cycle that guarantees more crime, more victims, more of the same.
You think you’re paying for justice. For rehabilitation. For public safety. But what you’re really paying for is a system that sends people back to your communities more damaged, more desperate, more likely to hurt someone than when they went in. And that someone could be you. Could be your family. Could be your neighbor.
That’s what I need people to understand. This isn’t just about what happens to us inside. It’s about what comes back out. And right now, what’s coming back out is worse than what went in.