Percentages
Posted By: nana on 2007-07-05
In Reply to: Whoa there Bessie. Back up... - let's try to get it right
The percentages differ from state to state (prison population). I don't think it is bigotry, I think these prisoners are all just criminals who caught. A lot of them get transferred from the prision system into the mental health system (under maximum security sometimes) and there they all are. A lot of black prisoners are there because they have not acquired coping skills, but that is changing. The illegals I worked with almost all "played the sytem" in order to be transferred into the mental health system. They admitted it. They get three meals a day and a rack. Free medical care. They are not transferred out until they can meet the criteria, which can be a long, long time. Some of them are in our facilities for young offenders, then when they turn 18 they are transferred to prision or mental health (still incarcerated). While they are there our tax dollars even at times pay for "outings" at various places including Disneyland for them as "therapy" because they have been so "deprived." Can you say you have not fully researched this topic or actually worked in the field? In addition, I would like to remind you that my name is certainly not Bessie, she was my aunt!
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