The Happiness Test

The Happiness Test: I took a personality test, "The Happiness Test", and I got "Getting There".

Public Safety Robs Public School Funding: We Deserve Better

Our criminal justice system is supposed to hold people accountable for their actions and keep the public safe from these "bad people," right? Well the problem with this belief  is that the majority of people that commit crimes are good people who make bad decisions. There's a way to hold people accountable for their actions, but it's not by taking a "tough on crime approach, it's by taking a "smart on crime" stance.

Smart on Crime means promoting policies that:
1. Increase Public Safety
2. Strengthen Services that Build Safe,Sound, and Healthy Communities
3. Save the State Money

Smart on Crime approaches promote evidence-based, safe and sensible sentencing reform that reduces our correction costs while maintaining-and even increasing- public safety (Partnership for Safety and Justice, 2013).

Smart on Crime approaches ensure we care for victims of crime by protecting and strengthening state and community based victim services rather than cutting them (Partnership for Safety and Justice, 2013).


Smart on Crime approaches strengthen community based addiction treatment and mental health services and other programs proven to reduce crime and create long term saving for the state (Partnership for Safety and Justice, 2013).

The following video explains why prison reform is essential. In short, We Deserve Better!!



http://youtu.be/p6vWWrbXfNU

See Why Prison Records Should Be Overlooked

"Freeeeddoommm!!!" (in the voice of William Wallace in Brave Heart) are the words most newly released inmates yell after getting out--if not aloud, surely in their heads. Yet, the resolute comfort that freedom brings is short lived once reality sets in that society, in general, is less forgiving toward individuals with a rap sheet. Idealistically, we expect former inmates to leave prison and magically become productive members of society, but how can they do that with limited job prospects? Seriously, it's hard enough for the average law-abiding citizen to find a job in this economy, former inmates have it twice as hard. Is it fair? Well, that's subjective. In my humble opinion, if an individual has paid his or her debt to society then why shouldn't he or she should be allowed to relish in the opportunities that freedom brings?  I'm not saying these folks don't need to be held accountable for their past transgressions, what I am saying is that everyone deserves a second chance.