I Dont Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine Post #3

The Chapter that im going to write about is titled, "The Things They Carried," which in jail is not much. The things the prisoners were allowed to carry with them inside of jail was nothing they brought with them, they were allowed, "one orange uniform, one pair of slip-on blue canvas sneakers, and an ID"(Chura 105). The prisoners didnt even get their glasses. Besides from the three things they are allowed to have with them in prison, they carry no other tangible objects. It seems that in prison they are not even allowed to carry dignity or a sense of individualism with them. Everyone carried the same three items, in fact everyone looked the same while crrying them. One thing that was impossible to be banned was the idea of carry tattoos. Tattoos could not have been taken away the way peircings were or glasses were. Tattoos were the only difference between the inmates, considering most of the inmates did carry some sort of tattoo with them. Prison is  a place were inmtes do not deserve to carry anything. They lost their chance of this, when they carried to many tangible and intangible objects with them. They carried, drugs, violence, gangs, stolen property, anything illegal a lot of them have once carried. With that, why should they be given freedom to carry anything else when they absued their chance of being their own person. So if the prisons make such a huge statement by letting these inmates have virtually nothing with them, why is it that these inmates will go through so much trouble to get a new tattoo while in prison? The author david chura said, "Whether I agree or not with the DOC, I still flinched whenever a student came into class with his upper arm, the back of his hand shiny with vaseline, a sure sign that a tattoo was freshly done"(108). Yes a tattoo is an expression, and indivdualism, a chance for a person who wishes to express themselvse permenatly on their body to do so, but its also a chance for prisoners to rebel. Yes if they are caught they will most likely just be in jail for a longer period of time, or even go to the state jail, but is that helping the prisoner change? Does David Chura see a change in these kids in jail. To be honest im not sure. He sees troubled kids, still rebelling in prison. After a while maybe they do change just having nothing to carry, nothing to do, nothing to be proud of. But these kids are in prison, just trying to be themselves, and the only way they could do that is rebel, and cause problems. Im not saying that prison isnt the right place for these people, because for a lot of them it is, but are the prisons trying to punish the kids while trying to fix them? Or are they just punishing the kids, not caring if they come back or not?