Past Present Blog Response

Baca used narrative and persuasive writing to explain how serving a prison term has changed his life. How the millions of people today experience the brutality and inhumanity prison life possesses. Baca writes about how bad prison by saying "What was most shocking to me was not that I survived, but that the prisons still stood, that cruelty of that life was still going on". I concur with Baca, because people need to reform how prisons are operated in the United States. When a criminal goes to prison, the experience tends to make him more criminal then reformed. His writing is extremely effective, he uses first person describing his miserable time in prison. "The vast majority of convicts, imprisoned for petty crimes that have no more to do with wrong judgement than serious criminal intent." Prison makes the most normal person into a rugged criminal. In prison there is a hierarchy among inmates. All groups in prison are all race related. For example there are whites, blacks, northern mexicans, and southern mexicans. To say the least prison is just a miserable experience and people's dignity and respect can be destroyed in a penitentiary. Baca's means of persuasion was effective because he is intelligent and spoke exactly what was on his mind or a narrative.