Feel Free

There is over 2.3 million people incarcerated to date. The issue is some young adults are incarcerated for criminal actions, but I say that these young adults backgrounds may be the reason for their criminal intent.

The sentencing of whom are emotionally destruct from personal experiences should not be penalized but helped. As a society, I believe going about incarceration should be judged more off of psychological evaluations. I say this only because certain cases like abused children will likely to have behavioral issues with themselves and others that cause a criminal act. 

Because these children may have grown up in the wrong place, surrounding themselves with nothing but what is shown to them, destructive behavior is likely to occur. I firmly believe that with the help of groups and organizations some of the cases these people face could be better handled rather than in a jail cell. 

From personal experience I have seen a lot from traveling to different cities and states. What I have seen is a number of people, whom are good hearted people, who reach for a way out but then are sucked in by the reality of their lives. Peoples lives are not always good and they're not always bad. But when you are a baby you do not choose where you live and how you grow up, unfortunately. However, we grow up and learn from what we see and hear, then take our acknowledgements and apply them to our own lives. What people may learn may not be good but that's all they really to know because their environment they reside.

For example, a friend of mine whom resides in New Jersey had recently lost two friends and a brother due to shootings and car accidents in his city. This friend is at the age of nineteen years old. He, without saying his name, is very dear to me. This young man had than, after losing multiple loved ones, had gotten arrested for possession of marijuana. Having just gone through such a tragic time, getting arrested for 1 gram of marijuana, had to be very frustrating for him. I use this young man as an example because I know he is a good person and child to his mother. However, the police did not see anything but the fact he had marijuana in his possesion. The police do not know why and they most likely do not care. The point is that if the police knew the full story, a more reasonable action could have been taken. The courts could possibly given a couple anger management sessions or counseling sessions to figure out a different way of copping with anger and frustration instead of resulting to drugs. But instead arresting him only made the mind more confused and timid to the rest of the world. 

I feel as if I am repeating myself to make myself clear because I know this is an issue that needs to get attention.  Although prison may get your act together, for some it is not the right direction. People need more counseling, meetings, anger management, etc. Analyzing a persons' adolescence and treating him or her properly, other than throwing someone into a harmful environment where one could be hurt and make their situation worse would be acceptable.