On How Rehabilitation Can Benefit a Community and Also Potentially Put Them in Danger

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Rehabilitation in the community can either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how the person looking at it, some people may say its good because they get to get out of jail faster and get help in trying to get a job and maintain that job. And some people can say its bad because they get out of jail to soon and risk the possibility of him or her going back to there ways and committing another crime because the temptation is still there. Through out this essay I will be talking about how the rehabilitation can benefit the community and how it can also put people in danger even though the offender is being monitored by a care taker.
There are many programs that an offender getting out of jail for either early release or work release, which are two different programs, they can be released on. The first one is early release that is mostly for offenders that are following the outline in order to be released earlier than his or her sentence was meant to be. On that program, the offender had to be very positive to every thing that he or she was being told to do in jail or prison and they also needed to be free of any misbehaving during the months or years they are serving as well. Also in early release they are just released to the community because of overpopulation in the jails or prisons for non-risk or low level inmates, that is being used today recently with the programs called AB-109 and AB-117 which release low level non-sex offender inmate to the public.
The other program is called work release in which the inmate is released for a certain amount of time to got to work, or to go to and educational program to get his G.E.D or something else so that he can get a job once he is release (Alarid, 2010). They can also be rele...

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...hey could help him or her in getting a job and try to help him keep the job by making sure that he checks in every once in a while to see how he is doing and make sure he is not going in the wrong path again because I think people can change. But I also think that some people are just taking advantage of this privilege and just acting to get out of jail faster and get back to what they were doing. They can just act to be good until they are released and just start from where they left off. I really don’t like the new program AB-109 because I think it’s not safe on how they are determining if the are qualified to get released or not. If the person has a recorded of DUI offenses and is arrested for one of those. They will look at his last offence only, determine if he is suitable for early release, and not check if he has a cycle of doing the same offence repeatedly.

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