Why minorities are not given the oportunity for rehabilitation and instead they send them straight to prison?

Answer 1

Why don't they just quit breaking the law?

Answer 2

It’s not just minorities my best friend who is white is going back to prison for the second time. He probably wouldn’t have gone the first time if he had the money for a lawyer. But he went, and did a little over a year for growing pot in his apt. when he got out he wasn’t rehabilitated he had a record and had spent the last year in prison so no company would touch him with a ten foot poll not even a pizza place. So now he’s on his way back.

Answer 3

I understand the problem, from several angles, one being a recovering alcoholic and another being from a political standpoint.

The current political climate is what it is and I do wish that other minorities would gain mainstream interaction in our national politics. (I am a woman, which makes me an automatic minority, being white has little to do with my ability to recognize oppression.)

There is quite an active lobby for more comprehensive health care in addictions. Many of us feel it is a medical issue, as opposed to a legal issue. We do know, however, that addicts will break the law when they remain untreated.

I do hope that the individual addict will take whatever available treatment they can get and then join the rest of recovering people in the struggle to create good, comprehensive treatment programs.

The ONLY way for effective change in our political culture is to become involved, somewhere, somehow. And stay involved, it will keep you occupied while the necessary changes slowly trickle into mainstream society. Some of these changes may not even take effect until you and I have left this life. But that should not ever be an excuse for apathy.

Peace.

Answer 4

Because many of them have already been given the opportunity to rehabilitate and refused.
What makes you think this only applies to minorities??...it isn't the 50s anymore.

Answer 5

Not sure that statement is true. If it is i think it applies equally to the majority as much as minority law breakers.

Rehabilitation not retribution is what will make criminals stop repeat offending. You can't lock everyone up forever!

Answer 6

Who are the minorities you speak of? If you're in the South, whites are minorities.

Secondly, jail and prison are considered rehabilitation facilities.

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Answer 7

I thought prison was coonsidered a form of rehabilitation. Don't get into trouble and you won't have to worry about going there.

Answer 8

do not Equating and Disenfranchising