Quotes About Reintegration

The goal in Japan is not to isolate the criminal from society, but precisely the opposite. A convict is sent back to his neighborhood, family, and job so that the social pressure to fit in and the pain of being shamed before the group will lead him to go straight.

I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

every man there had been trained from childhood in the brutal schools, as assassins. They were all looking for a new life and trying to figure out the rules of society. They knew they'd never fit perfectly, but they were doing their best.

The prison makes the convict.

The escape from habitual culture must always be temporary if you expect to be permitted back into that culture.

I got caught back up in the underworld because the upperworld really doesn't have a place for people with criminal histories.

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the character of the liberated prisoner: bitterness and disillusionment when he returned to his former life.

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly. Psychologically, what was happening to the liberated prisoners could be called "depersonalization." Everything appeared unreal, unlikely, as in a dream.

We fear what is uncontrollable. This 'control' attitude results in an 'order fetish.' People become obsessed with mowing and grooming their lawns and obsessed with neatness. People living in contemporary society are split beings divided against themselves. Our Eurocentric society is wounded. Society does not want to feel pain. Therefore, society denies history, and hides its collective head in the sand. We must reintegrate what we have taken apart and love the thing we fear.

back to the city.

Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

When he returned from the war he said to Nurit that he wasn't sure that all of him had come home.

I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.