The First Year Out of Prison (2020)

https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32630854/prison-release-recidivism/

33•NaOH•3d ago

Comments

GiorgioG•4h ago

I don't get it, what point(s) is this article trying to make. It seems to be all over the place.

harvey9•3h ago

I read it as a human interest story. I would have liked more citations but it's a magazine article not a research paper so that is not a reasonable expectation.

navbaker•3h ago

What I took from it was her points toward the end about how the re-entry process needs to be vastly improved.

GiorgioG•1h ago

On one hand I empathize, on the other hand - she made the poor choices that wound up getting herself incarcerated. There are long-lasting consequences to their actions. When society has to choose between spending a dollar on re-entry or spending it on other more (perceived) worthwhile causes - we know how that goes. Before you all get mad at me for saying that, we don't live in a fantasy world with infinite resources that can do X and also do Y.

mpalmer•46m ago

You'll have to forgive me for not believing that you empathize, since most of your thoughts here are about rationalizing why there's nothing be to done.

There are other ways of thinking about this problem than as a zero-sum matter of where to allocate tax dollars.

yownie•46m ago

she made poor choices but 8 years for assault where no one was permanently injured seems excessive. She served a year before an appeal had her out, before it was reversed and she went back for another 8 years, I'd call that excessive and as the article entails, really serves no one's best interest, not her daughters, not societies and not the victims.

That's not even budgeting back the costs associated with housing and caring for this person in prison nor the time and energy that's going to go back into reintegrating this person into society.

roughly•36m ago

> we don't live in a fantasy world with infinite resources that can do X and also do Y.

Right, for instance in this world, we have to choose between, say, Jeff Bezos renting Venice for the weekend and school lunches for kids, or Elon Musk buying a presidency or programs to reduce prison recidivism. It’s a tough problem, and we’ve all gotta make sacrifices and make do.

mpalmer•3h ago

This captures a real person's experience going through a challenging time. Real life is messy, and long form writing in a documentary style doesn't need to make a point so long as it leaves you with an impression.

southernplaces7•48m ago

I suppose it's pointless nonsense unless it's "optimized" for maximum information density?

You do know that there's this thing called a human interest story, and part of its point is to capture something of a narrative for its own sake yes? Stories like this cane make for very interesting reading. They don't have to include technology and hacks.

johnwheeler•1h ago

No hacking was to be found here

RickJWagner•48m ago

A few years back, a politician outlined some simple steps to avoid poverty:

Graduate high school

Have a full time job

Marry before having children

The politician was heavily criticized for his comments. The advice seems timeless, but people don’t want to hear it.

mpalmer•37m ago

Speaking only for myself, I have zero interest in hearing this from you, because it's clear you were eager to drop this anecdote in a thread with even minimal relevance to the topic. This is not a story about poverty.

Makeda, the subject of the piece, clearly has a high school education because was a legal assistant for the city before she was incarcerated. She educated herself further during her sentence, and after. While working.

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

Stone–Wales Transformations

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

Commodore 64 Ultimate

Faking a JPEG

Preliminary report into Air India crash released

Sieve (YC X25) is hiring researchers to build large video datasets for AI labs

Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)

Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

jank is C++

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project (2010)

Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'

Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

Dict Unpacking in Python

Reverse proxy deep dive

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

Repasting a MacBook

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Increasing the Fidelity of Qubit Operations