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Are You Ready? By: Chernikko L. Crump Greetings contributors and readers of the A.P.W.A. First and foremost, I would like to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to contribute to this site. It is an honor and a privilege to be able to share some of my thoughts with you based on first hand experience of the alarmingly high recidivism rates as well as the structured systematic attack that has already been launched against people who are currently incarcerated or previously incarcerated in the penal system. The recidivism rates throughout the United States are very high due to unfavorable post release practices, policies, and laws that have already been set in place in order to help you not succeed. Despite those disadvantages one must still take full control and be fully responsible for yourself as well as your actions. Having a plan and acting on it is key to your success. Make sure that this plan entails stability, support systems, and structure. This will help greatly increase your quality of life and in turn lessen the odds of you becoming one of these factual recidivism statistics. Upon your release back into society there will be a strong need for an educational, economical, political and a social development in order for you to properly integrate back into society and be successful at doing so. To develop means to unfold gradually or in detail, to bring out the possibilities of, make more available or usable, to acquire gradually, to go through a natural process of growth, differentiation, or evolution. Now as we know change doesn't happen overnight and one must have the mindset that he or she wants to change the circumstances of his or her situation. This type of behavioral pattern needs to grow on a person in order for this change to properly take place. Growth comes along with the process of progressive development. These particular areas of growth and development will make a person become more independent. You become independent when you can stand on your own two feet and you owe your own existence to yourself and not the system. A person who is dependent and lives by the will of the system causes the system to have more dominion and control over your life. This hinders you from voicing your opinion towards changing these ideologies and concepts that govern the system. When you allow the system to be in dominion and control over your life this allows the system to create laws and policies that are designed to keep this dominance and control over you. The more independent you are the more the system needs you and not the other way around. Creating this sort of leverage gives you an advantage so when you speak you will be heard and acknowledged. Through this growth and developmental process the people that are faced with these challenges will then become a more reckoning power group of people that are beyond boundaries and without measurements. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance Be a factor so you can make a difference Are You Ready? Correspondence: Chernikko L. Crump [ID] 5325 Broder Blvd Dublin CA 94568