"Anything can be related to psychology."
These words came from my AP Psychology teacher's mouth in our first week of the class. I'm thinking more along the lines of brain chemistry, thought process, loads of theories, and many experiments that don't really have much purpose other than to tell us something we already know. I wasn't the most enthusiastic student.
For no particular reason at all, except, well, this one English assignment, I was pondering America's prison system. Just thinking about its virtues and its faults. And then, like a flash, there was this one specific statistic, once filed away in the recesses of my mind, that really struck me with full force. Sixty-seven percent of former inmates released from U.S.
According to a new report by the Pew Center on the States, 1 in every 100 Americans are currently incarcerated. That's a record-breaking total of 2,319,258 in jail at the beginning of 2008.
Recently I watched a new show on VH1 called Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. The show entails different celebrities from the famous to the obscure who are dealing with varying degrees of substance abuse problems. These celebrities are placed in an inpatient facility with Dr.
