Why are chances likely an individual placed in prison will go back at some point? Why does the average criminal record of a former inmate expand once he or she is released? Could it be that there is a flaw in the system? Perhaps our perspective is skewed on the rehabilitation process. Are we rehabilitating at all in America's prisons? Or, is the assumption that if an inmate spends time in a hell-hole it will rehabilitate him a step in the wrong direction? There is a serious difference between punishment and rehabilitation. One, more often than not, involves emotional revenge, while the other focuses on steering a lost soul in the right direction. Perhaps this is the reason the war on crime has only increased crime. If ever we are to overcome our faults and help out those who fault most often, we need to rise beyond the level in which the fault was created. An angry reaction is never the optimal solution. When's the last time you ended a fight by getting angrier, lashing out and or blaming the person responsible?