Work and Responsibility Offer Hope

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Henry grew up in the projects and was on welfare as a child. He works in social services and counsels the homeless. Henry's insights lead him to say:

Listen to me: Reformers think they can put criminals or drug addicts in the front door of some rehabilitation program, and out the back door these same people will come - changed and good.

The components of individual human beings are much more complicated than to allow such a cut-and-dried solution. The only thing society can do is offer opportunities to every child. When the child becomes a teen or a man, and he chooses to take no responsibility for himself and murders another human being, he has the right to go …