The trauma from spending even a month in prison is enough to fully derail a person’s life, even aside from probably losing their job and having it go on their record.
On a psychological level, it’s just not easy to recover to a sense of normalcy after spending time in prison. The rest of one’s life is haunted by this constant threat, it can make it difficult to participate in social activities, perform basic tasks, or really enjoy doing anything at all. The prison follows you, is a part of you, lives deep within your own mind.
That’s one of the reasons for high rates of recidivism, aside from the socioeconomic structures that are baked into the system to present barriers to anyone who’s been to prison (or even jail).
The penal institutions are not designed to help people recover or reform their behavior. They’re there to punish, traumatize, and exclude, and as a threat to hold over people’s heads to keep them in line. And, of course, as a lucrative profit machine with a carve-out for legal slavery…
The trauma from spending even a month in prison is enough to fully derail a person’s life, even aside from probably losing their job and having it go on their record.
On a psychological level, it’s just not easy to recover to a sense of normalcy after spending time in prison. The rest of one’s life is haunted by this constant threat, it can make it difficult to participate in social activities, perform basic tasks, or really enjoy doing anything at all. The prison follows you, is a part of you, lives deep within your own mind.
That’s one of the reasons for high rates of recidivism, aside from the socioeconomic structures that are baked into the system to present barriers to anyone who’s been to prison (or even jail).
The penal institutions are not designed to help people recover or reform their behavior. They’re there to punish, traumatize, and exclude, and as a threat to hold over people’s heads to keep them in line. And, of course, as a lucrative profit machine with a carve-out for legal slavery…