Local Program for Helping Criminals Return to Life

From The Muncie Star-Press comes Reentry support program meant to change lives of jail inmates once they're freed:

State and local officials gathered Thursday at the Justice Center to discuss and provide an update on the Integrated Reentry and Correctional Support program that launched at the county jail late last month. The program provides peer coaching for inmates and, in conjunction with the Delaware County Manufacturers Alliance and Ivy Tech Community College, can provide job placement and continuing mental health and addiction treatment after release.

The article does not specify but most jail inmates should not be felons.

These programs are necessary for the inmates and the public unless the public wants to gas all of us criminals.

Which the public cannot do in Indiana unless the people want to change their Bill of Rights:

Section 15. No person arrested, or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor.

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 Section 18. The penal code shall be founded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice.

Somewhat off topic is Abolish life sentences but I think this passage (at least) relevant:

...Moreover, ‘virtual life sentences’ – those greater than 50 years – effectively condemn almost all those serving them to a life in prison. In 2016, more than 44,000 people in the US were serving virtual life sentences.

Can anything justify these harsh sentences, in particular life or other very long sentences?

The answer is no. It’s easy to show that the public safety arguments for these sentences are fallacious, which leaves the conclusion that only retribution could possibly warrant them. But when understood in any reasonable way, retribution also fails to justify them.

I can say on the federal side no such rights exist, nor any emphasis on reformation. Neither my prison case manager nor my halfway house counselor nor my PO have had any plan on how I was to reintegrate into civil society. You can click on the little box on the right hand corner to find what I have written under the topics of Prison life and Halfway House Life and Supervised Life for details. Perhaps the reason my PO acts ss if I am about to go on a criminal rampage is knowing the federal government does nothing to prepare its prisoners for a life without crime. Well, this is how your tax dollars are spent.

I took upon myself avoiding what Public Safety Dance describes as supervision's problems:

Supervision nudges an individual into an “acceptable” lifestyle, generally at the bottom of the food chain, within a society where corporations exert ever more control over daily life. It’s supposed to make people better, but many describe the experience as so torturous that they would rather just be in prison. Many others die—from gaps in health care, from being uninsured and poor, from conditions that worsened in prison—and at rates over twelve times higher than the average person in the United States.

In the best case scenario, a person under supervision can have everything an unsupervised person has—except for their agency. We can expect that to have all the “public safety” money can buy will be similarly unpleasant.

 I came out of prison knowing of alternatives to crime and having had  goals restored to me. Plenty of my fellow prisoners had no alternative except a life of crime, never felt any purpose to their life except criminality. The people of Delaware County know its jail inmates are part of their community and programs offering those inmates a life different than what led them to jail benefits the whole of Delaware County.

sch 8/15/22