Rehabilitation or Punishment?
Missouri's governor and Department of Corrections would like you to believe that there are plenty of opportunities for the incarcerated to better themselves, but these opportunities continue to decline. We have told you about the ITC program at Jefferson City Correctional Center and it's continued lack of support (https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/04/a-letter-from-itc-program-at-jccc.html ) and now we've received the following message from an incarcerated man regarding job training. We will continue to shine a light on the truth about Missouri's prisons.
"I just found out that they do not have diesel mechanics, it seems like
every class such as anger management either has to be parole board
stipulated or they do not have it for whatever reason. I do not
understand when they are always talking about rehabilitation. It
makes it hard to rehabitate when they are taking them away or making
it, to where you have to see the board to be stipulated. I believe
that this defeats the whole purpose of rehabilitation, I realy wanted
to take diesel mechanics before I went home and this is the only camp
that offered it. The rumor is that they are going to make this whole
camp level 5. so if they leave the VTS's here that means they will be
mixing level 5 inmates with level 1 inmates which they are not
suppost to do. So if you want to take a VTS here you will be treated
as a level 5. They recieve federal funding for these classes, even
the one's they are not teaching, they still have it down as they have
it here and teaching it. I don't think there should be any excuses
for not having everything we need to return bact to society with
every tool we need to enter it successfully and to help us from
returning.
Another
thing I believe is an issue is the parole board. When a person goes
up for porole, they go in front of the judge and jury of the parol
board were they grill the person over their case. If I'm not mistaken
every person in prison has had their turn in court. It is more
important for the prole board to grill you over your case then it is
about rehabilitating the person. Another thing is that they want you
to admitt to everything in your case if not then you will not get a
good out date. As I said before I've already been infront of the
judge and have either been found guilty or plead guilty. The reason
they do this is to try to take away any possible apeal a person might
have. Anybody that wants to go home is going to tell whatever they
want to hear in order to get home. I believe this is an abuse of
power and adds unnecessary stress on the person and their familys.
Instead of bringing in more classes and programs to help people
rehabilitate, they want to take them away and stipulate what other
classes you can take and if something happens to were you cannot take
the class in here then they will make you take it on the outside were
it cost money."
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