Prisons and Justice

(sal, sorry I accidently pressed save instead of publish...)

After viewing the "30 Days in Prison" video as well as reading "Courtroom 302" I never felt so disgusted at our country. We pride ourselves as being the land of the free, yeah of slaves maybe- but most definetly not of prisoners. The way our prision systems work is like a revolving door. People go to jail all the time for theft and drug crimes, and when they've rightfully served their time their just thrown back into the exact same world they started in. They usually have trouble finding a job or getting education so they resort back to crime, and guess where they end up? back in jail. I believe that their should be reform for prisons in America, but they go overlooked. Why? mainly because we (mostly meaning I) grew up in an area where people are arrested then pay bail and get out of it. I only knew of criminals as the thugs who have tattoos covering their whole bodies and shoot people for fun on the weekends. After learning about prisons and the penal system, I almost feel bad for the criminals- even if they did go against the law. They have everything working against them and thats why they keep ending up back in prison. It's sad but true, and if the prisons cared, they would set up ex convicts with a job in a semi good area wherre they could actually turn their life around.