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[–] SeanBox [S] ago 

In the first comment I made I proposed adding the word ..."violent"crime... I'm really just looking for ideas because I'm somewhat involved in the strike.

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[–] JohnPaulJones ago 

There are no short term solutions. I can't honestly look at a 35 year old violent offender whose spent half his life in jail and tell them that any political solution will make his life better. While prison conditions are not what they should be there is no short term solution IMO. The solution is long term and its cultural. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people in prison. They broke the law. While that doesn't remove their human dignity, the only workable solution is to stop crime before it starts. After the age of 25 your personality is essentially fixed. While I know this may sound cruel given your background, I don't know of a real workable solution. To me the only workable solutions involve breaking the cycle of poverty not normalizing crime.

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[–] SeanBox [S] ago 

making slaves out of our people contributes to the cycle of poverty. The recidivism rate is what it is because there aren't options to succeed upon release. I did 4 1/2 years in a federal prison for the shit they found in my apartment when I was a teenager. I've already been home for 7 years and I'm not a part of that life anymore but I left a lot of good people behind and if I can do something for them I want to. I just don't see anyone else trying to do anything about it so I figured I would give it a shot. You should check out "Phoenix the Courtroom Superhero" on YouTube. I tried to fight back by myself. I'm a superhero. ;)