When children misbehave in certain ways, parents often send them to their room for punishment. When adults misbehave in certain ways, the mommy-daddy-nanny state sends them to cages for punishment. These cages are allegedly there for our rehabilitation in a prison system.
Social Responsibility
As a society, we are not dealing with the problems around us through a collective pressure in our community or society to have people change. To have them understand why they need to change, and to even first teach them why and how to act rightly in the first place. Morality, philosophy, and psychology are not taught as core foundational education in our lives.
The people in our communities and societies that have engaged in wrong behavior or wrong actions (whether it's minor or major), have been shaped by their own experiences and environmental factors that led to their actions. This includes ourselves in the overall way things operate. We let this all continue.
Some people are in prison, but not for anything serious, as many nonviolent "crimes" are deluded "laws" created by control freaks who want to prevent people from doing certain things that don't harm others. Just look at how the drug war targeted people for smoking cannabis.
Community Failure
We aren't addressing the failures of our own community or society. We aren't preventing further confusion and wrong behavior from emerging in successive generations of minds that get shaped, formed and conditioned by our society. We are choosing to deny a responsibility at our own hands, and instead send people to their rooms called prison, where the issue is never actually resolved, and rehabilitation never actually takes place with any real help from the community itself. We just put them aside in some locked up cage and forget about it.
The education to raise us properly in understanding is not being done.
False Rehabilitation
Harder criminals who have a lower state of consciousness create a concentration of the sick and poisoned consciousnesses as a way of life for others to emulate. There is no real rehabilitation of consciousness to change behavior in prison society.
Some people can seclude themselves from the general population and do their own thing, just as happens in regular society where some people don't fit into the superficiality or falsity of the society around them.
Unraised Consciousness
A child is unraised and lacks awareness. This can apply to adult bodies as well. Physical age or maturity doesn't necessarily correlate with some measure of "mental age" or maturity. Consciousness can be unraised and unaware at any physical age, doing foolish things and wrong-actions towards others or themselves.
We get frustrated with children and their inability to be reasonable at times, so they get a time-out in their room or elsewhere. Children need to learn from those around them, the environment, their society, peers, and that shapes them into who they are. This is how children are raised from a lower order thinking to higher order thinking and processing of reality. That's not to say time-outs are always used effectively or responsibly by adults either.
Raising Consciousness
Raising consciousness is important throughout life. In society, people are being shaped with what is around them in their families, homes, communities, cities, media, etc. If people turn out as a reflection of wrong-actions, then they were not properly raised in consciousness to higher order thinking about things to affect their behavior. Yes, there are some small percentage of people who have undeveloped emotional capacities and can't self-correct their behavior through reflecting on how they and others are part of a larger whole. But that's not what I'm talking about. There are psychopaths who can't be changed and are broken models of what a human being is supposed to be.
Children haven't developed yet to be able to be reasoned with fully. It takes time to learn how to think better. There is a justification for a time-out if required. But the issue needs to be addressed as well afterwards, with reason. A child, teen or adult needs to be explained why something was wrong so they understand why there is a consequence or punishment.
If children are not raised properly, with understanding through explanation and reason, then they are not going to understand the reason for not doing certain things. They will do wrong-actions from a lack of understanding due to being improperly raised in life, and their consciousness is not raised as a result. We can learn from our mistakes and change, if we are willing to admit them and admit wrong.
I had to raise myself in real knowledge that matters more than the standard basics of our outcome-based indoctrination centers. Many other people have done the same. We "wake up" and realize we've been lied to in so many ways -- although unintentional -- by our parents, friends, and society due to everyone being so trapped in it. It's still a lie we accepted that kept us unaware of the reality around us, kept us asleep, unconscious, unraised. Then we see we are wrong, admit we are wrong, and choose to find out what is going on instead of not learning about things.
If we raise people with an understanding or right and wrong, and don't do wrongs to them, then our society will reflect this. There will be less wrong behavior behavior. This would require many unlawful "laws" be removed as well, so that wrongs and injustices are not perpetrated on people in a society that would falsely criminalize them.
Prison doesn't correct people properly, despite the deception of being called "correctional facilities". It often just introduces people into more corrupt behavior, from the other inmates to the guards. We can raise people better and bring back the responsibility to the community, rather than throwing people into a cage because we failed raise each other up in moral comprehension.
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