So you've seen the convict mugshot turned model...but what do you think of it?

[publius2k4]

Well, the system isn't necessarily supportive of those with felons anyway, they are stigmatized. What exactly is a felon supposed to do once they leave prison? Seek a job, where even the likes of McDonalds or Burger King won't even hire them. There only choice is to engaged in the behaviors which landed them in prison in the first place. So yes it's a repeated cycle; however, the prison industrial complex is big money and feed off of these sorts of crimes anyway.

There are many who HAVE been convicted, and turned their lives around. Here are a few who were convicts long before they became celebrities;

Danny Trejo
Steven Fry
Tim Allen
Robert Downy Jr.

He can turn his life around and he might even be capable of becoming a role model some day; But as of right now, he's an inmate with 6 felonies pending.