They feel no compulsion to going back and trying to start over, regaining people's trust and respect, of being stereotyped as a "prison rat," and spending life in a cramped chamber. Some even choose to take their own life after being sentenced to a life term. ... Many inmates will have opted for crime because they were not happy with their lives and wished for an outlet. ...

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