Looping In-Class Freewrite

In-Class Free-write-Discovering Thesis:

My view on violence is different then it was before, because now I see violence as more than just people physically hurting others. There is a deeper reason as to why they do it, and unfortunately society doesn’t accept those reasons. They just automatically assume they are bad people, and send them to institutions where they don’t learn to do better, but instead learn to keep doing bad decisions. His solutions to the problem are reasonable, I agree with him in that parents and the community should be more involved in Youths’ lives. I hate zero-Tolerance policies, I hadn’t noticed them before, but now that I know about them it makes me angry that schools are so cruel to students they should be given chances to improve, yet because of these policies students are forced to fall. I feel that the way to improve violence is not by locking people up and expecting them to be better, but like Rodriguez said, give them sentences that make a difference.

They just automatically assume they are bad people, and send them to institutions where they don’t learn to do better, but instead learn to keep doing bad decisions.

Society doesn’t give these people a chance to improve their lives. These people are thrown into prisons that have even more corruption than the outside world. How can people become better people, when they are forced to change themselves for the worse, because prisons force them to. They are forced to do things to survive in the prison world, yet when they are out of the prison world and into the outside world they are so used to doing things like they did in the prison world that it is hard for them to readjust to the outside world. It is sad that people put so much money into the prison system, just so they can keep making money from the prisoners, they should instead focus on helping the prisoners take control of their lives, but because there is so much greed in this world, money is the most important thing in this world, and it shouldn’t be.

How can people become better people, when they are forced to change themselves for the worse, because prisons force them to?

People are thrown into prison supposedly to learn to do better, to learn that they messed up and now they have to pay in order to fix it, yet instead of learning that, they are learning how to become better criminals. With all the crime and injustices in our prison system, the criminals aren’t learning to do better, they are learning how to do worse. The only way people can learn how to act in a community is to be in a community. They are taken from their community and thrown into the prison system, and they learn how to act in the community except they learn how to act in the wrong community. Then when they are let out back into their old communities they have accustomed so well to the prison community that their old community is not a part of them and they are not a part of the community.

The only way people can learn how to act in a community is to be in a community.

Sometimes the criminals are put into jail because of how they are forced to act in some communities, or else they could get hurt or made fun of. I can pretty much bet people don’t join gangs because they aspire to do so, sometimes some factors come into play fear being one of them. The fear of getting jumped, or the fear of not having someone to have your back. Sometimes that’s how communities are and the “criminals” are adjusting to how things are. Same goes for those who are let out of the prison community they can’t adjust to the outside community, even though, they were there first.