Anne-Marie Cusac (Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Roosevelt University) quoted Nathan Deals (Georgia’s Republican Governor) second inaugural address saying, “If you pay your dues to society, if you take advantage of the opportunities to better yourself, if you discipline yourself so that you can regain your freedom and live by the rules of society, you will be given the chance to reclaim your life.” (par. 3). John Turner did just that. Turner was in his early twenties, addicted to crack, when he kidnapped a lady at gunpoint and forced her to drive him to buy drugs which he consumed in her car. A police officer eventually pulled them over where Turner was arrested while trying to flee the scene. Turner faced thirty years in prison where he earned his high school diploma and a certificate in
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He is one out of the thirty-five men that earned a welding certificate that “are sitting on job offers once they get out of prison.”(Cusac par. 25). John Turner is now married with two children, and is a leader for a program that spreads awareness to young delinquent teens about the life behind bars. Prisons and prison programs are highly effective to an inmate's recidivism rate. Men and women all over the world face the consequence of going to prison for various crimes, and some once released, relapse back into criminal behavior, but others the ones willing to change and serve their time, return back to the world as a new person.
The prison nursery program is where inmates have the capability to care for their newborn child. According to the three year study “after release 86.3% remained in the community. Only 4% of women returned to prison for new crimes.” Although 4% of the women did return back to prison, that percentage is extremely low compared to the percentage of women that helped themselves and their children by not repeating old habits and committing crimes. The article states that the prison nursery program is more
He is one out of the thirty-five men that earned a welding certificate that “are sitting on job offers once they get out of prison.”(Cusac par. 25). John Turner is now married with two children, and is a leader for a program that spreads awareness to young delinquent teens about the life behind bars. Prisons and prison programs are highly effective to an inmate's recidivism rate. Men and women all over the world face the consequence of going to prison for various crimes, and some once released, relapse back into criminal behavior, but others the ones willing to change and serve their time, return back to the world as a new person.
The prison nursery program is where inmates have the capability to care for their newborn child. According to the three year study “after release 86.3% remained in the community. Only 4% of women returned to prison for new crimes.” Although 4% of the women did return back to prison, that percentage is extremely low compared to the percentage of women that helped themselves and their children by not repeating old habits and committing crimes. The article states that the prison nursery program is more