What is Incarceration?
Let me see if I understand this correctly, after a person has served time incarcerated, that person gets "a piece" of paper that they can carry around with them that identifies them as a "SAFE CONVICT" per WTNH News Channel 8 this morning. That piece of paper indicates they are not a threat to society and they can work or get an apartment??? I'm not sure that someone should have to carry around a piece of paper that (1) identifies them as a "Safe Convict" (what is a safe convict); (2) What is the purpose of incarceration for a crime if when you're released you're still [Locked out]? In 2000 the American Society of Criminology published a White Paper that described the philosophy of incarceration and its purpose as "retribution" which mean to repay. But it appears that folks are often times "repaying" repeatedly. It also states, "More recently, a heightened fear of crime among the voting public coupled with economi