Quotes About Reintegration

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Philosophy, precisely as 'Being speaking within us,' expression of the mute experience by itself, is creation. A creation that is at the same time a reintegration of Being...for...it knows itself to be a Gebilde and wishes to surpass itself as pure Gebilde, to find again its origin. It is hence a creation in a radical sense: a creation that is at the same time an adequation, the only way to obtain an adequation...Being is what requires creation of us for us to experience it.

Everyone dreams of dropping out of the world once in a while. Then you get in the car and drive back home.

he understands the penitentiary. It is the expectations and values of the world outside of prison that he has trouble comprehending.

Like Cincinnatus, most American servicemen returned to the proverbial plow. In 1945, we had 12 million men and women in uniform. One year later, we had fewer than 3 million wearing a uniform.505

Even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district.