tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post3647006480458817327..comments2024-03-28T12:13:06.135-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Social services and prisons: is there a cause-and-effect relationship?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-57977940145214086862019-09-18T23:14:38.236-05:002019-09-18T23:14:38.236-05:00I had a chance meeting "on the outs" wi...I had a chance meeting "on the outs" with a young man whom I had met after he had been released from incarceration.<br />He approached me, called me by name and said," What you told me changed my life."<br />No clue. Total blank.<br />I did not remember ever seeing him or talking with him prior to that day, and of course, I have no knowledge of what I specifically said to him.<br />It is a mystery.<br /><br />I was an advocate of the idea that the behavior modification programs we ran were temporary control methods that became ineffective open release from custody, but what we needed were character modification programs and the quickest way to that was a true conversion to Christianity.. <br />I saw a few jailhouse conversions, but only one that I think was the real deal. Except he struggled with the idea that since he had found Christ he should not have to face the consequences for holding down a rival gang member while his co-defendant stabbed him seven times. /s.<br /><br />waepnedmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114411043832799988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-82072550951694905062019-09-17T14:25:38.623-05:002019-09-17T14:25:38.623-05:00We have been fighting the 'Reform' movemen...We have been fighting the 'Reform' movement in prisons since the Quakers got involved in it, back in the early 1800's. Before then, it was strictly punishment.<br /><br />After the Reform movement, long term studies show...<br /><br />That, actually, recidivism is less in a 'Punishment' system than in a 'Reform' system. <br /><br />Quel Surprise, Non?<br /><br />The attacks on personal responsibility is the base of most of our behavioral problems, those not linked to mental illness, that is.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72865399365219026632019-09-17T12:42:05.267-05:002019-09-17T12:42:05.267-05:00Ah, the service and support folks' jobs depend...Ah, the service and support folks' jobs depend on having people to take care of. They are positively motivated to keep their clientele dependent on them. A vicious circle, isn't it? It goes hand in hand with modern medicine treating the symptoms instead of the disease.<br /> <br /><br />tweellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164718561825615886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59711657137354183782019-09-17T10:20:45.066-05:002019-09-17T10:20:45.066-05:00My stepfather was a psychiatrist who did a fair am...My stepfather was a psychiatrist who did a fair amount of forensic work in the state prison system in the 1950s.<br /><br />Speaking of jailhouse conversions and the like, I remember him saying "they don't call them 'cons' for nothing."<br /><br />He had been a merchant seaman before medical school. I also remember him observing that somebody had one, maybe two tattoos, they had probably gotten drunk in port, on leave, or when out with a bunch of buddies. More than that was usually a sign of psychopathology and/or being a criminal. Peter Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15122781534685443942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-9473295133940286502019-09-17T06:50:09.749-05:002019-09-17T06:50:09.749-05:00None of this is new. We just keep ignoring realit...None of this is new. We just keep ignoring reality and human nature.<br />Want movie references?<br />Clockwork Orange 1971<br />West Side Story 1961McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.com