The vicious circle

After reading this article it said that 99.2 percent of young people transferred to an adult facilities in Cook County were minorities. i do think that it is disturbing that there is more minorities in jail than Caucasian. even though there is more minority in jail that does not mean that they should be treated any differently. I think that most prisoners while they are in jail they go through primary deviance because when it's their first time at the jail they do not like the fact of staying in a small jail cell their entire life. So the thoughts that go through their head is they don't ever want to be put in jail and they say they want to learn from their mistakes and they don't want to make it a habit to be deviant. I think that once prisoners are locked up for a long time and they get use to their regular routine and when they are finally free they fall into temptation and are put back in jail. it starts becoming a regular routine for them and they repeat the same behaviors that led them to jail in the first place. I honestly think that our society labels deviants as being bad and not human because of some of the bad choices they make. As a society we label them as prisoners and nothing else we want the jails and officers to deal with them and we push them out of our way. 

Jail expierience

My experience from going to the county jail for a tour was quite interesting and scary at the same time. before going into the jail i was very excited but then when the officer was talking to us about what we would be getting ourselves into made me a little nervous. While i was at the jail when the officer started talking to us about how society wants people that create felonies in jail. He said that we would rather avoid the problem which is the inmates and just have them in jail, that our society wants to keep them away from us but we don't do anything to help them get better when you have jails that when they discipline them they discipline them very badly. When he took us on the tour and we saw many of the inmates they were saying very rude and unnecessary comments. This reminded me of the labeling theory that we talked and read about in sociology class. I connected the inmates saying rude comments to the labeling theory because they are labeled by society to be criminals and bad people that they feel the need to act as society labels them to be which is yelling out rude comments.