Deviance, Drugs, & Prison

Even though I only saw the second half of the movie we watched in class I really liked it. It must take a lot of courage as a grown man to voluntarily be locked up in a prison for roughly 30 days. It was great how there were so many men at the rehabilitation center really trying to turn their lives around and steer away from the drug world. However, at the end we saw that a couple of the guys he met had ended up getting thrown back in jail shortly after they left the East Prison. It was sad to see how easily people can get dragged back into the drug world. They are good people but they grow up in bad environments and getting involved with drugs is all that they know. It ends up just creating problem after problem once they become addicted. They are usually lower class so it is hard for them to even acquire the amount they need to keep from withdrawal. Then they begin to steel and then maybe use violence and it is all one big ripple affect. As bad as drug users choices may be, people should all be punished equally in my opinion. You can't give someone who lives in the projects bigger consequences than a person living in Naperville, this may sound childish but it's just not fair! Also, it is confusing to people when deviance laws regarding drug use vary in different locations. Such as partial use of Marijuana is acceptable in some parts of Colorado and it is legal in Amsterdam. This makes people think well if its okay to use it in those places then I might as well be able to use it here. In this case they would be deviant here, but not in Colorado or Amsterdam. The justice system is wack.