General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Jo Anne,

I read a lot of your posts and I think you tend to look at things through rose tinted glasses. I presume that you accept that there are some bad people in society. I personally don't know any addicts but I am sure that at sometime or other someone has attempted to wean them off their habit. What do you do when they have had treatment to cure their addictions but have still gone back to their old ways. I am sure that a lot of the horror stories we read about Senior citizens being broken into are carried out by these people trying to feed their addiction. If prisons are a shaming Institution why do so many ex prisoners re-offend? I know it doesn't go down well with certain people but I would make the Prison regimes so hard that they wouldn't want to re-offend. I would bring back chain gangs and put prisoners to work breaking rocks or anything similar.