Either You Are or You Aren't...

Pinky's pissed...

You see I have this friend who has a friend who was convicted of a felony sex crime and who served his time in prison. He paid the debt that the judicial system required of him and he got out of prison and tried to start his life over.

Except, because a bastard ex-lover used a little known loophole regarding his parole, the guy who was trying to make something of himself after four and a half years of exemplary behavior gets his ass thrown back in jail. All because he wouldn't give into the blackmail of the ex-lover.

Now... before you get your knickers all in a knot and think that I am defending pedophiles and want rapists to run wild up and down the streets randomly attacking little old ladies, that's not what this is about. I know that there are evil and twisted men (and women!) out there who use sex as a weapon against others and who deserve punishment and who should never ever see the light of day again. (I went to catechism with one!)

But I also believe that there are other people who can be rehabilitated or can learn from the things they have done in the past and won't do them again. I have to believe (or at least hope) the prison system is serving some sort of purpose and that people are coming out of it without the inclination to commit the same or another crime again. (Though the rate of recidivism seems to negate that idea totally.)

So either you are rehabilitated when you get out and you should not continued to be punished for your previous crime or you aren't rehabilitated and what is the point of letting you out at all? Right?

RIGHT???