Why does almost every criminal become a saint after going to jail?

Answer 1

Plenty of time to think about doing the right thing.

Answer 2

Hm mm, I don't believe everyone that goes to jail is a real criminal, it's just a word made to label a person. We are human and make mistakes and learn from them, some get caught and some don't and continue to do evil things. Some police men, are real criminals and get away with crime, and they feel like saints. I guess once they get a taste of Prison, it's a new ball park game. Men having sex with men, "sick," that goes on 24/7. The jails systems are corrupted, because the state gives the inmates rights in the system, so if you ask me the real criminals are out here allowing them to get power in the system to have power in the outside, to let them kill each other in the inside. Nonsense! We are in a money making country!

Answer 3

I've worked as a supervisor at a parole office for years, and I don't see that. That's not to say it doesn't happen.

There was a guy on death row at Stateville Pen. in Illinois. He was a leader of a major gang in prison, and was actually pardoned based on DNA evidence exonerating him of the murder he was convicted of. Subsequently, he became the poster child of wrongfully condemned inmates, hooked up with Jesse Jackson, and even ran for Alderman in Chicago. He lost. Since then, he's been arrested on either drug or weapons charges. Aaron Patterson, the prison gang leader turned saint, was back to his old self.

Answer 4

No. That is a sweeping generalisation. Not every criminal who returns from jail, becomes a saint.

Answer 5

The majority of our convicts in the US are drug addicts. Its easy for them to grasp on to religion as another addiction. Incarceration makes you re-evaluate your belief structure, value system and other moral stratigies. Church survice is often the only program available for a prisioner to participate in. Since addiction is already a predispositon, faith becomes an obsession, just like a fix, and a substitute for the withdrawl craving. Even worse, once released and assimulated into the public they often forget their jailhouse convictions of faith and end up right back in jail. Addiction is a physical disease and cannot be cured by finding God. I am not saying that christianity is to blame nor am I trying to be disrespectful to christians, I am only stating a fact that it is often used as a crutch for addicts who cannont handle life without some type of reality alteration, or something to consume the pain.

Answer 6

My files show that more than half will re-offend after spending time in jail. If they were convicted of non-drugs/alcohol crimes, then they have a better chance because they fear violating their probation and going back to jail. The meth defendants are usually back within a year regardless of the circumstances. About 20% of the DWI defendants seem to reoffend. The domestic assault defendants are usually back in court either for another domestic or for DWI. Theft defendants do better than most. Burglary defendants are usually back, but often for drug crimes. Sex offenders are hard to categorize; you usually don't see the "statutory rape" offenders back in court, but the rest of the crim sex offenders tend to have problems, usually several years after their release. These are obviously generalizations, but I hope I answered your question.

Answer 7

Your assembtion is wrong. Some may change again to cheat. All Punishments are to main an order, but with that alone we cannot change one's mind. If we want to change a criminial we should find out what is the cause forced him to do that? and if we give our minimum support like good advice to come out of it they will start thinking and that kind of criminals can change like a good human beings.

Answer 8

I beg to disagree with your statement. Criminals only act like saints while in prison because they have nothing else to do. They know they will beneft by exhibiting good behavior but that does not necessarily mean that they have changed.

Answer 9

By default human mind does not believe in commtting crime or harm fellow human beings. The distance and obstacles that takes for human being to cross these hurdles to understand determines the quality of human being. The moment a human being realises this will reform and correct. It may be due to good exposure or commit mistakes and learn.

Answer 10

Because when they appear before a Parole board to get out of prison and finish their time on the street, they can fall back on everything godly that they have learned while being in the "Department of Corrections" and how much they have been "rehabilitated" while being in custody and it shows how much ready they are to be back with society.

Answer 11

It's funny how fast convicts find God in prison. It helps to put on the front that they are " good " to the staff and the parole board. I've seen it too many times. They lose God when they get released. I've seen that too many times also.