ing as they please. The plan originated in the idea that jailers could leave for the day to do work. When the idea was proposed the townspeople were scared that murderers and thieves were free out on the streets like everybody else. In the beginning a couple of inmates (out of 800) tried to escape and were punished with a longer sentence. However, the rest understood the rules of the game and were grateful to be treated like a human again, they returned to jail everyday at their declared time and served their sentence. All the while morals were being taught to the prisoners and they cooperated with the system like professionals. (Swift, 1-14) The ideas expressed in this paper represent the basic laws of human behavior being applied to the incarceration of people. The prison industry is a negative, but rapid-growing advancement. It does create more jobs, however, it changes the attitudes of the people working in prisons. Anyone working in a facility will tell you it is not a happy place to be. I've witnessed for myself on a tour of Great Meadows maximum-security correctional facility the coldness of the employees. The corrections industry is the fastest growing industry in the country today. The sad part is it's an industry based on the torturing of other human beings. The reason it is growing so fast it that the number of inmates returning to prison is about 86%, 40.8 % returned within the first 3 years of release. Not to mention the "war on drugs" which is filling the cells so fast there is less time space for murderers, rapist and other violent offenders. (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 1) Prisons are so damaging to one's mental health that they find it almost impossible to find a place for themselves in society. In no time at all they find themselves back into a life of crime. From what I have read, it seems as if the only chance a criminal has of rehabilitation is before he or she enters a prison. A virgin to the prison syst...
