And what we do is we create an angry individual because we're not rehabilitating them in prison. We're putting them in prison and treating them like animals. We're showing them no compassion, no kindness, no opportunity for learning a skill set.
All these things, by the way, they technically exist on paper. But they're not actually working because wardens are often over budget because of overzealous projects that they have and because of their own pet projects and priorities. Or they don't want to spend their budget so that they can come in severely under budget and then taking massive incentive bonus at the end of the year.
So that's the number one thing that has to change. There shouldn't be an incentive structure for wardens because then they create manipulative tactics to literally take away from the rehabilitation process. And the only thing that that contributes is it creates a cycle of recidivism where people keep going in and out of prison because they go out, they haven't learned any better.
They go right back to where they are because they're shunned by society because now they're felons. They're not given employment opportunities. And eventually, as a story of a young 20 year old man that I I'm sorry, 25 year old young man that I met in prison who was put in prison at the age of 20, came out at the age of 24 and six months being out.
He tried very hard to get a job. He went on hundreds of interviews, filled out hundreds of applications only to not be accepted to a McDonald burger flipper job because he was a felon. Eventually, he had to feed himself.
He had to house himself. He went right back to selling drugs, got caught violation, violating probation and is now sitting in prison for another five years because of that. That is not how prison should be.
We should that is not how society should treat prisoners. We need to look at these people as they pay their they did their time. They rehabilitated themselves.