Some persons choose to live a life in prison where they can get meals, a roof over their head and medical attention. They know that by having a felony it will be most difficult for them to find a job.
The situation in our prisons
Are sad
Incarcerated are
Some of the worse offenders
With the nonviolent
- – -
There are those
Who should be treated
In a psychiatric hospital
But in many cases
That never happens
- – -
Instead of being homeless
And living on the streets
Some figure they can get
Three meals a day
And a roof over their head
By being in prison
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Many prisoners know
That as soon
As they become felons
And released
The possibility of them
Finding jobs are zilch
- – -
Every year with thousands
Of dollars spent
On each prisoner
There’s no rehabilitation
Programs that actually work
And the public continues
To pick up the tab
- – -
Some prisoners
Prefer to play the system
By clogging the judicial courts
With petty crimes
And returning time after time
For sentences
That come with a security blanket
- – -
I heard of a case
Of a certain fellow
Who on being released
On good behavior
Walked up to a policeman
And spat in his face
Only to be dragged into court
To be sentenced once again
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It is sorrowful to know such a condition of the individuals. 
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