It's Not Fair, At All!

It's a well known fact that prisoners who think their imprisonment is unfair are far more likely to break the rules in prison, and commit new crimes after they are released. In fact, prisons commonly use this as part of their screening and classification process for prisoners when deciding security level and even parole eligibility. But doing so they are only treating the prisoners who already feel unfairly treated even more unfairly. This is a good example of how the system propagates the so-called "criminal mentality" that it turns around and uses to justify its own existence.

What if, instead of blaming prisoners for feeling unfairly treated, we did things instead to make them feel more fairly treated. Odds are they will then be LESS likely to commit more crime, and MORE likely to obey the rules in prison.

And, there are all sorts of ways to make prisoners feel more fairly treated. Some have been employed in the past, but only after prisoner behavior became so out of control that prison officials were forced to employ them. I'm talking about simple things like grievance proceedures, and disciplinary appeals. But, there are many more simple ways to make a prisoner feel more fairly treated, unfortunately most of them involve actually treating them more fairly. ystem itself The truth of the matter is that the reason most prisoners feel that they are being treated (and punished) unfairly is because in most cases they ARE! The system itself, of course, denies this. And by denying it the system justifies even more unfair treatment! The trick is simple; the system claims that most prisoners ARE treated fair, and the prisoners only think they are being treated unfairly because of their "criminal mentality". Therefor, the system is justified in treating the prisoners even more unfairly, all in the guise of justice. The idea of course is that if we punish them enough they should eventually "learn their lesson"; which is, of course, that they AREN'T being treated unfairly at all (even though they ARE!)!

How does that work? It doesn't, of course. What it does do is create the illusion of justice, all at the expense of more crime, more criminals, and more victims; just so the system can have more control and more power, and more money to do less, and directly cause more harm. All in the name of a false god it calls, "Justice".

(J.D. July 30, 2015)