These days it is incredibly easy to forget that behind every prison sentence is an actual human being. This might be a father, a mother, a teenager. And while oftentimes they do deserve the sentences they are being given, this is starting to become the exception rather than the rule. And you (assuming you are American) are paying for it. And I think that in this case we can all agree that we have better things to spend money on as a country than making sure Sharanda P. Jones doesn’t return to the streets.
These people were never malicious. They pose no threat to our country. They merely saw no other way out than to sell drugs to support a child that they could not support with their jobs. To add to the injustice, these kids own lives are negatively impacted by knowing that their parent is imprisoned for life. Some may even be blaming themselves for it.
The sad thing is that the system we operate in now seeks to prolong problems rather than seek out solutions. Because if you think about it, it makes sense that if these people were being paid sufficiently in their low wage jobs to begin with, there is a good chance that none of this would have happened.
Certainly a good part of this is due to the greed of the institutions where these people are being kept. They want them there. And they want you to pay for it. Certainly the least we can do is voice our opinion that we do not want this to continue. That we as a country will no longer stand for this. Because when pressure, we can influence the government to change and change for the better.
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