Comments on: Reforms Should Facilitate Ties Between Prisoners, Family, and Society http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/ Prison News and Commentary Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:07:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: John Zacha http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-144 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:12:37 +0000 http://70.87.13.10/~prison/2009/02/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-144 Mr. Santos,

I am in Mr. Torres’ class and having read the majority of your articles for February 9th, the majority seemed to stress family ties as being one of many means of engaging inmates back into the mainstream of society. Without getting to deeply into personal family history, my father was in and out of prison and jail, mainly for narcotics possession and distribution, and alcohol related arrests, most of his adult life, and after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. What this boils down to is after hearing so many untruths, most of his family gave up on him, including my sister and myself. He was not convicted of any violent crimes that I know of, but he did have a mean streak from time to time. Not to belabor the point, my question is how do we the address the issues of nonviolent offenders, who play be the prison rules, and who may not have any family or the family support needed to help these inmates transition successfully back into society?
My next question kind of goes along these lines, when talking about more liberal programs that nurtures family participation and your ideas concerning Karl Marx, and that is do you think it would be a good idea, as a trial program in a minimum security prison, to have a form of democratic government run by the inmates, with one leader, a senate or congress of sorts, to work hand-in-hand with the administration, who would be a sort of Supreme Court, to address the issues of more liberal family visits, time on the phone, etc?
I am sending this again, because of some typing errors on the original.

Thank you for your time and consideration,
John Zacha

]]> By: John Zacha http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-133 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:59 +0000 http://70.87.13.10/~prison/2009/02/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-133 Having read the mojority of your articles for February 9th, the majority seemed to stress family ties as being one of many means of engaging inmates back into the mainstream of society. Without getting to deeply into personal family history, my father was in and out of prison and jail, mainly for narcotics possession and distribution, and alcohol related arrests, most of his adult life, and after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. What this boils down to is after hearing so many untruths, most of his family gave up on him, including my sister and myself. He was not convicted of any fiolent crimes that I know, but he did have a mean streak from time to time. Not to belabor the point, my question is how do we the issues of noviolent offenders, who play be the prison rules, and who may not have any family or the family support needed to help these inmates transition successfully back into society?
My next question kind of goes along these lines, when talking about more liberal programs that nurtures family participation and your ideas concerning Karl Marx, and that is do you think it would be a good idea, as a trial program in a minimum security prison, to have a form of democratic government run by the inmates, with one leader, a senate or congress of sorts, to work hand-in-hand with the administration, who would be a sort of Supreme Court, to address the issues of more liberal family visits, time on the phone, etc?

]]> By: Carole Santos http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-20 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:11:06 +0000 http://70.87.13.10/~prison/2009/02/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-20 Hi Kellen,

Michael responded to your questions here:

http://prisonnewsblog.com/2009/02/prison-visiting-and-judicial-decisions/

Best wishes,
Carole

]]> By: Michael Santos http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-19 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:46:10 +0000 http://70.87.13.10/~prison/2009/02/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-19 Hi Kellen,
Thanks for visiting our site. I’ve mailed your comments/questions to Michael and he’ll respond back. I’ll post his reply as soon as I have it.
Best,
Carole Santos

]]> By: Kellen Hoime http://prisonnewsblog.com/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-18 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:19:42 +0000 http://70.87.13.10/~prison/2009/02/reforms-should-facilitate-ties-between-prisoners-family-and-society/#comment-18 Mr. Santos,
I was wondering how the privileges of family visits work? What are they like? How realistic are they, as in are prisoners restricted to a room or are you able to walk around and spend time with family? Does this depend on the prisoners behavior? How is it that a prisoner is able to keep a strong relationship with their family while being confined?
Also i was reading in the paper that the 9th circuit court is trying to create better medical treatment for prisons. How are the medical treatments now? Why do we feel that we need to spend money with the harsh economy to reassemble better needs for prison medical care? How do you feel about this situation? Is it a good idea? is it right to spend for money for certain prisoners for example: A prisoner is an illegal alien of the United States and they do not have medical care and are not tax payers. Should they be able to have the same medical care as other prisoners who’s families pay taxes and have a say in medical care? thank you so much for your time and i am excited to hear back form you.
Kellen

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