The rehabilitation of prisoners in our jail system, could use some improvement. There could be a heavier emphasis upon the rehabilitation of any of our members of our current prison population, as has been done successfully with the Criminon program. But for any rehab program to work and to allow Criminon MORE access to our prison system, those in charge of our prisons must have the reality and desire to be successful in this charge. They must be aware that the rehabilitation of prisoners or criminals is possible and that the Criminon program is simply the best program to achieve these goals.
The Criminon program was used in a Mexican jail system a few years back, with astounding success. A program was established at a maximum security prison, allowing the Criminon program to be “tested” with a select groups of prisoners. The requirement to be a part of this test was that those participating had but one “requirement” for inclusion to the program: they had to have murdered another person.
So a select group of such individuals were started on the Criminon program. These inmates were not allowed to be using drugs while they were on the program. Well that started antagonizing certain inmates who had been supplying drugs to these prisoners inside the jail, and they were now loosing “customers”. Still the program continued. The Criminon volunteers administering the program within the jail, were threatened that they would be murdered. Not threats, not intimidation, not attempts by certain elements within the jail trying to lure those participating in the Criminon program, to quit the program worked.
EVERY prisoner in the select group completed the Criminon program of rehabilitation and EVERY prisoner had their sentences commuted, as they had been so well rehabilitated, that this was the proper and just action to take.
I submit to you. That ANYWHERE where the Criminon program is being thwarted or blocked from being implemented, in ANY jail anywhere in the world, that those in positions of authority, somehow benefit from prisoners NOT being rehabilitated, or are simply uninformed or refuse to even look at the validity and effectiveness of the Criminon program of prisoner rehabilitation. Certainly for the wrongs and criminal acts one has done, serving time in jail is part of making amends for the wrong acts one has done. However, it is in the best interests of any society, that those in jail are rehabilitated as properly and quickly as possible, so that prisoners returning to society, when their jail sentences are up or if their sentences have been commuted, return to society now able to once again to be positive contributing members of society. Otherwise we are not running prisons but “revolving doors” which see individuals in and out of the prison system again and again and some entity making a profit or some twisted benefit, from prisoners NOT being rehabilitated…