Here are some thoughts about rehabilitation and recidivism.  If I understand things correctly, then most prisoners are members of gangs, and they spend their resources fighting among themselves.  Is it possible that, maybe, prisoners don't necessarily have to be one another's enemies?  Maybe the authorities are the enemy, and their provocateurs are playing the gangs against one another, as a strategy.
What could prisoners accomplish if they spent their energy on something useful?  For example, what if they used that effort to promote and support halfway houses?  The halfway houses could be places where released prisoners could live, eat, avoid bad influences, and look for jobs after being released from prison.  If prisoners did something like that, instead of fighting among themselves, then rehabilitation might be something more than a pipe dream.
Granted, prisoners aren't in a position to change the world, but they might be able to help themselves.  I suggest that they try to stop wasting their time and energy on brutalizing each other and start doing something constructive, before they leave prison, about what they're going to do after they leave prison.  Cura te ipsum — physician, heal thyself — might also come to mean prisoner, rehabilitate thyself.

Usurperation of Church and State
Sam Aurelius Milam III

In olden times, or so I'm told,
Religion ruled the land.
In every place, in every way,
It had the upper hand.

And should a doubt arise to lure
A pilgrim from his path,
Or should a pagan show his face,
The clergy showed its wrath.

With crushing boards or flaying blades,
Or burning stakes, and more,
The church enforced its dominance
Back in those days of yore.

But now, faced with diversity
The church must seem to change,
And seem like it is tolerant
Of things, however strange.

So when the doctrine of the church
Must be imposed by force,
The church transfers the dirty work
To government, of course.

Plastic Peril Sam Aurelius Milam III The picture to the right is part of a collection that was brought to my attention by Ptosis.  Not all of the pictures in the collection are as pitiful and as tragic as this one, but this one is a good reminder that we should all be careful about how we dispose of our trash. Don't get the wrong message.  I'm not advocating the enactment of additional repressive environmental legislation.  We already have way too much of that.  I'm not advocating a bunch of boohoo turtle commercials on the TV.  We already have way too many boohoo dog, boohoo cat, boohoo horse (and so forth) commercials.  I'm only suggesting that we should all try to be worthy and honorable custodians of this planet.

—from http://www.rivermenrodandgunclub.com/cool-and-different-pictures.html

Frontiersman c/o 4984 Peach Mountain Drive Gainesville, Georgia  30507       Being able to vote for your master doesn't keep you from being his slave.  In fact, voting for him legitimizes the relationship.

Blonde Jokes
Original Source Unknown.  Forwarded by Don G.
Q:What happened to the blonde tap dancer?
A:She slipped off the sink and broke her ankle.
Q:How do you give a blonde a brain transplant?
A:Blow in her ear.

It's Great to Be a Guy Because
Original Source Unknown.  Forwarded by Sir John the Generous.
•The remote control is yours and yours alone.
•Wedding dress:  $2,000;  tuxedo rental:  $75.
•Gray hair and wrinkles add character.

Interesting Facts Claims
Original Source Unknown.  Forwarded by Don G.
•On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
•Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
•Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
•Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
•Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
•It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not possible to lead one downstairs.