| As in nearly all things, America has been
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| | charts and reports; literacy tests. Poor
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| of two minds concerning the
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| | readers are non readers and have a
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| rehabilitation of criminals. One camp
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| | lifetime social handicap until they want
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| believes the more severe and lengthy the
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| | to read well. Probations should continue
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| punishment, the less opportunity a
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| | until literacy is achieved. Once a person
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| criminal will have to re offend. Lock
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| | can read well and wants to do so, they
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| them up and throw away the key.
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| | can learn anything else they so choose.
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| Statistics prove this camp wrong and
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| | This opens a world of options previously
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| alternatives are far from their concern.
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| | denied.
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| They are the law and order people who
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| | Lives of total dependency in cages help
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| have a strong appeal to a society that
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| | no one. Not keepers, the prisoners or the
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| fearfully sees itself as victims.
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| | society trying to protect itself. To
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| The other camp wants to rehabilitate
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| | treat a person as though they will never
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| criminals but can seldom raise the needed
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| | have an opportunity for revenge and then
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| economic support to initiate and evaluate
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| | releasing them with hearts full of fear,
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| rehabilitation programs. These are folks
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| | resentment, anger and rage, guarantees
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| who know that no life is beyond
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| | that society will pay a price for the way
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| redemption or incapable of productive
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| | they treat people who were most often
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| work.
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| | fellow victims, long before they turned
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| Rehabilitation has failed so often
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| | to crime.
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| because it rests on the idea of stripping
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| | In Orwellian double speak, society talks
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| every right from a person, throwing them
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| | of caging people as criminals paying a
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| in a cage, isolating them from the larger
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| | debt to society. The fact is the reverse.
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| society and destroying any sense of
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| | Society is creating a debt to the
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| personal identity or value. Treating
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| | offender, turning a marginal life into a
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| people worse than animals is not
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| | hopeless and useless life. Society is
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| conducive to self improvement.
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| | restricting a person from any opportunity
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| Rehabilitation must begin by not caging
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| | to contribute to the society he or she
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| non violent offenders. House arrest,
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| | offended; allowing no opportunity to
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| victim restitution, fines, counseling and
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| | support a family for which they may be
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| work habilitation will prove much less
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| | responsible; innocent victims of
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| expensive to society than caging and
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| | terrible, thoughtless social policy.
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| produce a better outcome.
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| | Society has so long applied this cruel
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| Anti social behavior grows out of
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| | punishment that its debt to the criminal
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| confusion and misidentification. That is,
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| | element cannot be paid. Just like the
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| anti social people believe they are
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| | debts owed Native Americans and the
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| someone different than who they are at
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| | descendents of African slaves. We can go
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| their core. They are books judged by
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| | ahead and live our lives as though no
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| their covers; judged by people only
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| | debt existed and we do. America will pay
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| interested in covers. They come to
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| | in blood, terror and plague - death and
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| believe and behave as though they are the
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| | destruction. It is a sad thing we have so
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| covers others have created for them. They
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| | chosen. Divine justice does not allow for
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| are the products of other people's
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| | life in cages or a few living well from
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| expectations and imaginations as so many
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| | the misery of many.
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| of us are. Unfortunately, the
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| | The rehabilitation of social offenders
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| expectations of many role models were low
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| | will not prevent the judgment of a
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| and easy to fulfill. Let society help the
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| | dispassionate, unrepentant people, long
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| victims of low expectations to
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| | past due. It could create pockets of
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| distinguish between who they are and who
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| | mercy within that judgment. Perhaps you
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| they have been told they are. This
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| | and I will know a little of that mercy.
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| explains their confusion to them and
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| | Perhaps you and I will make some effort
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| alleviates it. Clearing this confusion
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| | to end a social injustice that is
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| makes good candidates for rehabilitation.
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| | worldwide and centuries old. Perhaps you
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| Rehabilitation begins by helping an
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| | and I will no longer ignore the problems
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| offender find their true identity. The
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| | some are paid to hide from us. Perhaps we
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| tools trained counselors now have at
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| | actually do know right from wrong.
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| their disposal for this identification
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| | Perhaps knowing the difference, we will
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| process are readily available: aptitude
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| | choose what is right. Perhaps but no one
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| and IQ tests; personality and character
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| | is betting on it.
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| tests; astrological and numerological
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