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RE: "Miss, are you being held hostage?" | How 8 policemen in bullet-proof vests were surrounding my home this afternoon
Yeah, from what I've seen from the US Police I'm not a fan - full prisons and violent police. Here it's the opposite - we're using our empty prisons for emergency housing now, lol. I feel lucky for sure :-)
That's good. I think prisons should be more like housing anyway. Many people in prison shouldn't necessarily be in a cell, but just in a place where they can get help and rehabilitation. But prison in America isn't like that. It's just about punishing people for going against the rules of the country.
I'm 100% with you. My background is in the behavioural sciences and what you're saying here counts for prisons, but also mental health institutions (makes sense, sometimes they overlap anyway). So often we think isolating and 'pushing back' behaviour is the way to go and if someone goes 'calm' we think we've had success. Then the person goes back to the world and has a fall back. Why?! Because we didn't get to know them as a person and their individual challenges and responses to those challenges. I makes me sick thinking about how we treat people as societies sometimes - there's still a lot to learn and improve on this topic :-)