Prison Reform: The Power of Personal Transformation

See yourself sitting behind a glass window, looking longingly to the other side. On the other side of the window sits your brother or sister, all locked up. You are connected by nothing but an old phone line. They are wearing their shabby prison uniform, which is encrusted with dirt because it hasn’t been washed. Everyone that cares about your sibling, your mom, your dad, your grandparents, and hopefully yourself, wish that after they have spent their due amount of time in prison, your sibling will reform themselves. To reform themselves, your brother or sister needs to change themselves for a greater good. Do you believe that if they put their mind and soul to improving themselves, your sibling could leave their criminal record in the past?

Hopefully, you do. I believe that anything can be done that is within your control. Even if the task is out of your control, you can reach out to another who has the power to help. Think back to when you were younger. What helped to influence your decisions? Most likely, your parents were the people that helped you make decisions and encouraged you to make them based on a certain reason. Since their opinion mattered to you, you looked up to them for advice. Those are the kind of influencing factors that can help your sibling change. The people that cared about your sibling as stated above would potentially be an influencing factor on whether or not your sibling could change for good, or reform themselves for the better. I believe that a person who has demonstrated criminal behavior in the past can change themselves and leave their criminal records behind.