Povertà e disuguaglianza aumentano il rischio di entrare nel sistema di giustizia penale – Irish Penal Reform Trust

This fact has always stuck with me about how different the population entering prison are from the ordinary population:

>Overall, four out of five prisoners (80 per cent) left school before their Leaving Cert, more than half (52 per cent) left before their Junior Cert, and just over a quarter (26 per cent) never attended secondary school. These rates are multiples of those in the wider population, where, for example, 90 per of students now complete their Leaving Certificate

These by and large aren’t people who have the same incentives as the rest of us. They have nothing to lose and nothing to fear from the state – nor could the state really make them fear without giving them something to lose.

I’ve tried saying similar stuff in here that it forces people into lives of crime because they genuinely feels and believe they’ve no other option but have been demonized in here for saying so.

I’m not saying I’m okay with it. I’m saying to pretend inequality/poverty/harsh upbringing doesn’t result in this is to pretend it isn’t happening, we can’t change anything until we accept it.

Our current system and the way our country is run incentivizes this.

why do we listen to anything the Irish Penal Reform Trust say? why does it warrant a news item from our national broadcaster. they’re ridiculously biased.

they want to broaden the youth diversion programme ages from 18 to 24! think of all the untouchable yup boys who know they can do waht they want and imagine them doing it for another 6 years. madness.