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*I think most would agree that sudden "ah-ha" moments come to them often in the shower. I have a lot of theories behind why I think this is, but I won't get into them now. Probably down the road after I've  been posting these for awhile.*

*Kinda like how Terence McKenna put it about getting high - You come up with all kinds of crazy theories which everyone knows sounds crazy. But every so often you come up with one that sounds pretty damn good. That's what **SHOWER THOUGHTS** are.*

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## Shower Thoughts – Part 1

I think most experts and people for that matter would agree – that American Prisons do no rehabilitate people. And often 1st time offenders leave and end up as 2nd and 3rd time offenders. They end up leaving and getting right back into the same trouble they were in before. 

Nowadays it seems that time spent in prison is spent pretty well. Inmates have the opportunity to watch TV, have access to internet, even work towards college degrees. They probably have it better than the majority of Americans as they don't even have to pay for it – the tax payers do. So it only makes sense why so many end up back in prison because their attention is diverted from learning from their mistakes. Everything that most people work towards in life is handed to them as an inmate. 

I read a book once written by a psychiatrist and 100's of studies from other psychiatrists backing up the theory. That there is one single area that all people with problems are lacking of in life. And that is of a common **focus**. The same patients treated with depression to adhd to postpartum all suffered from not having a focus. The lack of having a focus in life kept them trapped and needing additional help - often perpetual help. And it was also the one thing that helped almost every single case to the point of the patient not needing help any longer. When they found their focus.

## Here's an article of inmates even learning to code http://ideas.ted.com/why-im-teaching-prisoners-to-code/

I'm not saying have this degree of learning available to inmates isn't helping them - but there is a difference between living effortlessly and actual rehabilitation

- So they either go back to the only thing they know outside of prison.
- Or think they are entitled to everything they had within prison and find a way to get back in because of it.

*My main thought with this mainly had to do with the idea of how bad it is for inmates to have access to so much in prison. There would be a significant drop in re-peat offenders if they prison focused on... helping the inmates focus.  **They're like a toddler who gets everything they want in life and then we expect them to somehow *not* think they own the world?**
 
*A couple friends of mind have spent some time in there and I think they'd agree. Although none have been back – they were more from the “wrong place/wrong time” situation -- and made sure NONE of the variables that allowed it to happen be a part of them anymore. 
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**I decided to start blogging about shower thoughts because I have them often enough that I like to write them down anyway. And this way I can have somewhat of a blog series with them.**