Quotes About Reintegration

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

people who have spent their lives in the military have trouble adjusting to civilian life afterward.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

How do you expect people to actually join the military if, when they leave the military, they can't integrate back into the free market they're supposed to be protecting?

The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.

In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.

punishment—shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable—traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop.

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case - more likely to offend as he was when he entered them, then we fail not only the individual but public safety as well.

The person who has been convicted has served their time. Why would we continue to punish and exclude them from housing and jobs? Those are the primary areas that allow people to get their lives back on track.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

Griff lowered his window as Turner drove through the gates of the federal prison camp that had been his home for the past five years. The area in which he'd been incarcerated was classified minimum security, but it was still prison.

with meaning, honor, respect, and reintegration into community. When we practice these aright—and it is possible—we fill our communities with honorable, noble, wise elders who in turn serve and mature the society and its most needy.

Return refers not just to bringing troops out of harm's way but to complete homecoming for the whole person in body, mind, heart, and soul

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.