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In reply to the discussion: Fox News Airs Suicide Following Car Chase. Shep Smith: ‘We really messed up and I am sorry’ [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Then we must find a way. I won't pretend to have the solutions up my sleeve, but I believe that education - spreading the information, informing the public of the situation.. is half the battle.
Another thing I would suggest is that things often become this way in a corrupted society... because there is not enough compassion to go around. So many people are enthralled by media, by politics, by sports and by various other things that... while significant and important in some instances, are generally not as important as a failing prison system. I don't think that just throwing money at the problem will make it go away, I don't expect that, whatever my eventual career may one day be... that I will ever be able to convince everyone that we must show compassion for prisoners for society to evolve.
What I believe is that time, empathy... and greater access to education will ultimately win out. Just consider how much the world has changed since public education became so much more widely available. The world may move forward slowly, but it moves forward nonetheless. There are many reasons that I am a democrat, but one of them is that I believe in progress, I believe we can, in time, move mountains and accomplish what appears to be impossible.
Perhaps we can't overhaul the justice system right away... not today. We can though, begin the process of convincing people that it should be overhauled, by sharing our knowledge of it and by having compassion for prisoners and for would be prisoners such as the person in this story.
I really should get some sleep, but I thank you for the conversation. It was thought provoking and enlightening.