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Kicked Out  by:

The book that I read starts out with a teenager girl named Dime.Dime is a rebellious teen, she also doesn't follow her parents rules and so she pretty much does what ever she wants.Until one day that her parents got tired of her behaviors and attitude and not following their rules of being early to home.One day Dime got home at midnight from a date with Gabe Jordan.Gabe is the popular and cutest guy at the school so Dime went out with him for a date that she didn't cared to be late to home or from getting in trouble but  instead the only thing she cared  about was people seeing her with the cutest guy from school ,o the rumors spread about her been with Gabe.When Dime got home her parents where waiting for her and they started a huge argument about her attitude and behavior and not following their rules.Dime got tired of hearing her parents so she went up to her room and ignore them.From that fight with her parents she thought that her parents kicked her out so she moved out of her house and went to live with her Brother Darren to his apartment but her parents told her that her responsibility was to cook or make food for her brother and her.She agreed and so she moved out.After getting to her brother apartment she right away called her Best friend Tiff and Her Boy Friend Gabe so they get her New phone number and her new address.Later on Gabe and Tiff come to her brother's apartment and they chill their and they eat their as well while listening to the music so loud.When its time for her friend Tiff to leave and Gabe,Dime leaves with them and so she get home until midnight and so she keep doing this over and over that she forgets to make food for her brother.Darren talks to her and tells her that they need to come up with ideas about to make their living work out.Dime tells him that if he is trying to control her like her parents but Darren explains to her that he is not doing that.He tells her that he just wants to know what she likes and what she doesn't like so they agree on things so their living works out.After that Dime leaves to school.When she gets to school her friend Tiff  tells her about the rumor that its spreading about her, which is that Gabe's Ex  wnats to fight her.Dime doesn't care and she keeps going on but theirs a problem their...If you want to know what happens next, Read this book...........                                    
I really like this book it was very interesting because it was about a teen that was going threw a hard life and living.So i found that book so interesting!!! NOT LOL JK  because i like teens books....

Final Paper: Criminals Should receive an Education

Brenda Granados

Writing workshop 7/8

10/26/10

Convicted Criminals should receive an Education….

      Ulf Frolander, Monica, and Michael Yates state, "If prisons were places for  people who have committed serious crimes that  were sent to pay a debt to society, and to be rehabilitated to return to society as healthy members of it, then the prisoners would be provided with and expected to make use of training and education”(114-127).  This quote states that if prisoners were sent to prison for committing a serious crime then they should be able to receive an education and training classes so they can be rehabilitate and return to society as healthy members when release. I get that the traditional punishment for criminals is to put them in jail for a period of time for committing a crime so they can serve their time but I think that for that period of the time that they waste in prison they should just get some rehabilitation courses and receive an education instead of  them not doing anything that benefits them. So, why not rather spend that time on taking rehabilitations classes that can help them rehabilitate and return to society clean and healthy.

              I think we should give the criminals another chance to mend their ways, offer them some moral education or skill training, which could be thorough  a strategy where they can lead the criminals to the right track sense time is so short for everyone and so we make a good use of every second, even for a person who had made some mistakes. I agree with Colette Stenson  because he said that “criminals should receive a second chance in prison to receive an education so they can change and never return back to prison” (1). I totally feel strong about giving a second chance of education to criminals, instead of letting them stay in prison and do nothing. Also, why not let them  lean to something skillfully which  can benefit themselves and be favorable to the whole society.

            In addition, putting the people in prison too long could make them feel despair to the world and cultivate the negative view of their life. Yet, it is meaningless to let them back to society after they complete a term of imprisonment. The government should conduct the criminals from the positive ways by using education so they can rehabilitate, which helps them reduce the number of offenders who return to jail after unable to adapt to a life outside and being a healthy member out of jail and the more they receive rehabilitation classes the more they are going to learn to not commit a crime because they already know the consequences if they commit a crime again. Also the Criminal rehabilitation can help solve the problem of overcrowding in most prisons sense there’s already a lot in prison today. According to Chia Moses, “Education is one of the ways in which it can help those criminals to never return to jail: it appears that their time in incarceration was spent productively, changing some vital aspect of their personality and that education should be offered in prison to allow the prisoners to upgrade and stay relevant to the changing society outside the prison walls” (1). I feel so strong about what Chia Moses stated because I think that criminals should get the opportunity to receive an education in prison so they can change their personality and never return to jail, but instead on giving a focus on a good job and a healthy life so they adapt back to society and never return to the negative path.

      Although, the criminals should pay for their mistake and they deserve to receive the punishments. Even though my way of thinking is, offering the criminal some education and job training instead of putting them in jail is the most thorough, efficient and positive path to guide them back to our society. According to Pat Wingert “Criminals should pay and receive a punishment and not receive a second chance of education for committing a crime” (1). I say this because in  many states like in California the community is doing more for the criminals then for the people that benefit the community. I defitnetly think this is wrong because criminals just brings more problems to the community so why helping them. Even in many states they tend to waste their money in criminals and bad people that only destroy the community and get it unprotected, dirty. This is wrong that the states are spending too much money on unsafely people that only get our community dirtier and destructed than those who are actually putting  hard work in our community to keep it clean and constructing more useful things that people can use and benefit from.

I believe that Convicted Criminals should receive an education while at prison even thought prison is for criminals to receive a punishment. I suggest that criminals should get a second chance of education .Although, I get that they have convicted a serious crime and that they have to receive a punishment so they can serve their time but not necessary by receiving a punishment they will learn from their mistakes because its most likely that they will not learn anything from their punishment and so they will continue convicting crimes. So I think that Education it’s the only way criminals will rehabilitate and change to return to society as healthy criminals, so why not just give them a second opportunity for them to receive an education?

Work Cited

Moses Chia, "Criminal Rehabilitation – Working Towards A Better Life For Inmates And Their Families"

Shrinking the Prison Population: [Editorial]. ”New York Times 11 May 2009, Late Edition (East Coast): New York Times, ProQuest. Web.  14 Oct.

2010.

Frolander-Ulf, Monica, and Michael Yates. "Teaching in Prison." Monthly Review. July/Aug. 2001: 114-127. SIRS Researcher. Web. 07 Oct 2010.

Pat Wingert “Classrooms or Prison Cells?” News Week June 28, 2010http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/28/classrooms-or-prison-cells.html

Collete Stenson, URL:http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Criminal-Rehabilitation-A-Second-Chance/1034202

 Corrections
Evidence

Introduction Guide

A Quick Introduction Guide:

1.       Ask yourself: “Why am I interested in the topic? What initially caused me to research the topic?”

 I am interested in this topic because i think that criminals should get an opportunity to receive an education just as any other people that are not criminals. I say this because i think that everyone has the right to receive an education in life.Also i am interested in this topic because i know friends and cousins that have been locked up in jail and they say that jail is so boring and that they are treated bad .So i think that by providing them an education they can get unbored and be entertain and even rehabilitate in jail.

2.       Then consider how you relate with the topic (e.g. I own pit bulls: they should not be banned; I have family that immigrated to the United States: open border policy; I always dreamed to be an astronaut and go to the moon: the truth about the first lunar landing).

 I relate to this topic because i have friends and cousin's that have been in jail for a little period of time and they say the jail is so boring and that they even feel like crazy just by being locked up in a dark place because all they do is just sit or stand in a dark place for a long time.so i think that by providing an education in jail it will benefit the criminals by not being bored and also by learning something something that its going to help them rehabilitate and turn into a new person when release.Also i say this because i think that criminals should receive a second chance on education because they got the right to receive an education.

3.       Once you simply define your relation to the topic, explain a personal experience that elaborates upon your relation to the topic.  If you are having trouble thinking of something, simply call me over.
I know people that have being locked up in jail and they tell me that jail is horrible because they are living in a horrible situation and that its so boring.

4.       Lastly, consider the purpose in arguing your topic.  How will you defend your stance?  What will you do to argue your purpose?

I will defend my argument by giving some reasons why convicted should receive an education and also on how it benefits them.Also i will do a counterargument that opposes my point.Also i will try to find good qoutes that can help me be strong on this argument.

Journal...:)

I believe that every prison in the Unites States should provide Education and Rehabilitation Programs for Convicted Criminals.I say this because i think that everyone should have the right to receive an education so even criminals should have an education.Also i say this because by providing criminals an education they will rehabilitate and turn into healthy members when release off from prison.

Shrinking the Prison Population; [Editorial]

Citation: Shrinking the Prison Population :[Editorial]. " New York Times  11  May 2009, Late Edition (East Coast): New York Times, ProQuest. Web.  14 Oct. 2010.

URL:http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1706462411&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=16548&RQT=309&VName=PQD

This article states that if we provide an education to criminals in prison the population of prisoners in jail will decrease because the more education they receive the more criminals (prisoners) are going to rehabiliate and the less likely for them to return to jail when release becuase they are going to adapt to the outside of jail.

Forensic Psychologists: Working to Rehabilitate Criminals

http://helpingpsychology.com/forensic-psychologists-working-to-rehabilitate-criminals

Forensic Psychologists: Working to Rehabilitate Criminals

By Brittany • Jun 27th, 2010 • Category: Helping Psychology

This article is saying that Criminal rehabilitation attempts to restore criminals to useful lives in which they contribute to society and no longer return into prison. It also reduces recidivism,(recidivism is  a grave problem facing the justice system)or the return to unlawful acts following release from incarceration. By offering counselingor education to correct their behaviors and building educational programs that help criminals develop job and life skills, forensic psychologists can successfully rehabilitate criminals.

Criminal Rehabilitation - A Second Chance

URL:http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Criminal-Rehabilitation-A-Second-Chance/1034202

This article is saying that criminals should receive a second chance in prison to receive an education so they can change and never return back to prison.By the prisoners not returning to prison it will benefit the prisons for not spending to much money on the prisoners and also a no longer overcrowding issue.Going with a rehabilitation program can help to keep offenders from coming back and crowding up the prisons.

Also it states that education can help in couple of different ways for rehabilitation. First of all, it helps to provide criminals with an education that allows them to stay current with society today as it occurs outside of prison. Also, education that they get can help them to get good jobs when they are released from prison, which can help to keep criminals from coming back to prison again. So, with social adjustment and education, criminal rehabilitation is possible and can provide many benefits to society and to criminals.