What is incubating in the world egg?

Humanity...within the confines of our penal system. What will be the lasting effects of our narrow interpretation of how to deal with the segment of our society who break our laws. Fair and civilized loosely interpreted, our system still falls short. What stands out, the dichotomy between freedom, as is guaranteed by our constitution, against the current statistics of incarceration. The outcome of these efforts as they pertain to recidivism, only seem to further support obvious in-effectivness of our system of justice, as it carries out the laws, and punishments, aimed at maintaining social order. What is gained and at what price. Do we offer rehabilitation to the human short fall or long lasting damage. From an economic stand point if we have to spend money addressing this problem shouldn't we attempt to invest in strategies that will glean out some future benefit to offset the burden.

Perhaps this situation is testimony to a far more freightening social demise, that being...a collective neglect on our part to address a situation that effects more than 10 million people. We have 2 million + incarcerated people in this country and 7 million children whose parent or parents are currently locked up. We may like to think of ourselves as the land of the free, at best this is an optimistic notion, putting aside reality we live in the platitudes. Though I do recognize that in some cases if it not for lock-up, some of these drug addicted people would never experience the potential to re-direct, simply because they would never land from the high.

To examine this from the stand point of societies future interest, statistics say children of incarcerated parents are 8 times more likely to repeat patterns that will get them locked up. So these kids are greatly marginalized and the likely hood of these children growing up and becoming incarcerated themselves is very high. We are engaged in fertilizing a crop that will yield in the coming decade...larger and larger numbers of people being locked up. These kids by proxy stand even less of a chance then their parents. What an unfortunate loop to be born into. Isn't there a better way? (see research on prisonsucks.com)

The growing Prison Industrial Complex presents a very favorable situation for the exploitation and capitalization by corporate America. The term Prison-industrial Complex refers to the privatization of correctional facilities. Prisons are both hugely expensive and at the same time very profitable, and as with military spending, the cost is public cost and the profits are private profits. This negative loop offers promise for profits and as they become further and further invested in the return, how many more barriers to change will be established in the name of protecting corporate interest. Like Insurance established for the common good, the prison system will be yet another social program serving profits before serving people. The Corrections Corporation of America, headquartered in Nashville, Tn. is an example of the privatization of prisons.

One of the greatest contributing factors to our current rate of incarceration is as a result of the War on drugs...which is actually a war leveled by the government upon a portion of its citizens. Look at the war on drugs current cost .