Perhaps no other segment of society -- other than children -- needs as much TLC as the prisoners and ex-convicts. Most of the nation's crime is committed by individuals who have committed other crimes in their pasts. If you could correct them, if you could reform them, crime rates would go down.
I speak the obvious, don't I. While they are in prison, you can train them. When they leave prison, they continue to be under supervision; train them. Have classes/discussions with them on how to love their families, how to treat their neighbors, and how to greet strangers passing them on the streets.
Develop their job skills. Teach them all the trades: air conditioning, bricklaying, roofing, welding, being a mechanic, etc. Teach them office skills.
Teach them American history and science, mathematics and grammar.
When all is said and done, we would have fewer criminals if we put more effort into training them.
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