You're just making them hardened. They're going to be worse criminals if they get out, if and when they get out. Yeah. And there's no emphasis on rehabilitation.
Yeah, I mean, there's this kind of illusion that everybody that is in prison for something that we don't think that the average person doesn't think they should be in prison for for many, many, many years, like a drug crime or being an addict, basically, that those people, that all those people have been let out already. You know, that somehow like prison activist people have said, well, you know, all the people that are in there for drug crimes should be released. But it's not really true.
Security guards fall asleep at night all the time.
It's weird that there's almost no emphasis on like, hey, how good of a job are prisons doing of rehabilitating people? Like there's no emphasis. But there's no emphasis on it in society. Not even saying, I don't know what they actually do, but no one cares about it. No one brings it up. Everybody just wants people locked up. And once they're locked up, they want them to do a long-term.
Well, they become worse very often. They end up, you go into a system where now you're around violent criminals with a criminal mentality for years and years and years, and they're sort of indoctrinated into that life cycle.
Yeah, nobody ever thinks about rehabilitation. Never comes up. Yeah. Never comes up as like a story.
There's an issue that I'm definitely going to be taking up now, and as far as the capacity or the level of it, I'm not quite sure yet, but prison reform is a major issue that we need to address immediately in this country, and I know that my name got brought up. During the BOP hearing when they're requesting $2 billion more, and it didn't go so well for them because the whole thing is incompetence, ineptitude, and I would say at least half the people that are in the prisons right now probably don't even belong there.
They put nonviolent people in prison, they come out hardened thugs, it's a historical fact.