And I cannot lie, just hearing the stories she tells me about her assignments, it puzzles me. Like, what is so hard about staying out of trouble for some people?
We can blame it on households, etc. but I know for a fact that is not always the case. My cousin down here came from a GREAT family. He had both his parents, had an upbringing that was both religion based, was FAR from underprivileged, and yet he ended up one of the "black sheep" of this family.
He knows better, he's SEEN better. His siblings have all done better and stayed in line with how they were raised. So what is the problem? Do some people just have an issue with resisting the temptation to follow a crowd?
And please don't take this post as, or try to turn it into me dismissing the struggles and challenges that turn others to crime. Because our experiences do shape us. I get it. My point is, what is the excuse for these men who know better?
They get in trouble, then my best friend has to tell me stories about how they cannot even follow simple instructions to come in for a parole/probation check-in. It annoys the hell out of me. You have your freedom now, and you want to keep it, but you're STILL not willing to even follow the simplest of directions to maintain it.
For some, prison seems to be like some sort of second home.
