Iowa Has a Problem

Also, prison trains people to be prisoners... lack of training seems to be a key factor in recidivism. Prison is not realistically a place for rehabilitation, so banging up that many offenders is, ultimately, bad for society... great for prison contractors, though. My dad was a career parole officer, and often lamented how such a large percentage of his caseload had no business being in prison in the first place.

A Des Moines Register poll conducted in January found that only 55 percent of Iowans think the country is open to choosing a woman as president.   

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nickysam

http://www.drugtreatments.com/iowa

As a social scientist and criminologist, and as one who has served over twenty (20) years of imprisonment within the criminal justice system, I can assure you that with varying degrees, the disproportionality of African-Americans imprisoned in Iowa is a result of racism in this state and the social policies and practices of the criminal justice system which are supportive of that racism.

Call it what one wants to, but the term Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) is just the politically-correct terminology and double-speak that is used to not have to confront the true reality of what DMC really is--racial based policies of disenfranchisement.

The continuous debate that focuses "on" the prison system, and "who" is in the prison system, must be re-directed to "why" do we have a prison system, and "why" are people imprisoned. The truth of such a focus will reveal that social policy developed at the local, state, and federal level is designed to create inequalities and then exploit those inequalities to advance social, political, and economic agendas that uphold the view that prison and imprisonment are justified in our society.

Social policy that endeavors to maintain inequalities to further the existence of prison, and imprisonment, serve architects of such policy, not society. Identifying such policies and their framers, who hold our society hostage to such immoral entrepeneurialism, is central in eliminating the "manufactured" disproportional confinement of African-Americans.

It is social policy that disenfranchises and fills our prisons; one must never forget that.  

For additional information on social policies and practice of the systemic failure of our criminal justice system go to: http//:convictcriminology.org/index.html

Football is an International game watched by millions of people all over tthe world. But nowadays Brazil is getting declined in this game and it is very sad to say like that.

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Josephine

Iowa Drug Addiction