“Plan for America and the World” chapter four: Prisoners

by Brian

“There is no person alive,

who cannot make a new beginning.”

Author, humanitarian and philosopher

  1. Ron Hubbard,

from a passage from the Way to Happiness,

by L. Ron Hubbard, on page 71.

Copyright 1981, L. Ron Hubbard Library. 

All Rights Reserved.

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“Plan for America and the World” Chapter Four: Prisoners

Oh, what to do with the individuals in our system of jails in America and elsewhere in the world?

Certainly, for those that have committed the most heinous crimes, the families effected and to a large degree the rest of the population, often desire revenge in the form of capital punishment.  But if one believes in reincarnation (the fact of living life after life in a human form again and again), as I do and as many, many millions of people in this world do, when we inflict the death penalty on someone for a crime they have committed, are we not shirking a key aspect of our responsibility? Are we not sending “our problem” into the future by killing this man or woman?  And again, citing the basic premise of reincarnation, since they will reincarnate again into a human form, and possibly act in a criminal manner again, are we by killing them, NOT taking the responsibility now, to try to rehabilitate this individual…while we know where he or she is?  Because if we kill this person, the moment we do, haven’t we in essence, lost track of where they are, where they have gone and who they will become in their next lifetime and what havoc they may inflict on individuals and in societies, in the future?

I believe that while we have this individual under our control, that it is our responsibility to rehabilitate them, not to send this person into the future forcing future societies to deal with the mayhem, death and destruction this individual may cause. Also, to be considered, is the cost of their capture, trial and imprisonment, once again. It is our responsibility, if we are to call ourselves a responsible society, to rehabilitate this individual…in our time!

Now certainly many, many people will say that such an individual cannot be rehabilitated. They may argue that why should society pay the costs for a lifetime imprisonment of such a person, which includes a cell to live in, food, clothing, health care and other such costs?  All good questions!

First the second point:    I believe that those in jail, should pay for ALL the costs associated with their incarceration: their living space “rent,” food, clothing, health care and any other related costs. They should earn this income by working long hard days if that’s what it takes for them to be responsible for their basic costs of living.

Citizens should not be burdened with these costs, except those of the maintenance of jails and salary for the staff, which for a time is a necessary and required part of society.  Since it is in our best interests and the best interests of future generations, which we do have a responsibility to, since we have this individual under our control, the public should be willing to pay for any costs associated with their rehabilitation. And individuals in prison can be rehabilitated!  The international Criminon program has proven this to be true.  One should look at their programs and their many successes at www.criminon.org

Also, of note, is that with a reduction and virtual elimination of any barbaric or harmful psychiatric methods and a real education of the public regarding the truth about drugs and values and morals, the society at large will see a drastic and dramatic reduction, in the overall level of violence and crime. This will then lower the numbers of individuals in our jail system who need rehabilitation. More on this will be covered in the chapters in this book on drugs, psychiatry, morals and ethics.

Also covered in this book, in a future chapter on students, is a desire to see that all students to graduate, will be taken on a guided and safe tour of our revamped prisons.  Students will see firsthand that those that break the law are working hard and long hours to pay for the cost of their incarceration.  Those that do not wish to be so financially burdened while serving a sentence, might seriously consider living within the law and being law abiding citizens.

 

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