Mr. Santos,

In your article “The Dilemmas of Prison Guards Who Want to Correct,” you mention that seven out of ten offender’s reoffend due to the fact that prison guards must keep the responsibility of protecting the facility, instead of helping or correcting the offender adapt to society for when they will be paroled. My question for you is, are there no prison guards who try and help correct inmates? Is there any way you see prison guards or even the Department of Corrections, developing a system that both corrections and guarding can exist at the same time? There must be some way or some system that can be developed for both techniques to exist. It is my understanding that prisons and jails promote more violence in offenders and actually cause them to come out more of a threat to society, from when then went in. From your inside view of the “Corrections” department, how would you go about helping, correcting, these offenders, so that when they do get out, they stand a chance of living a non criminal life in society? I want to thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions and am looking forward to hearing back from you.

Steve Salisbury