Pray For Inmates In Chains Poem by Suzanna Chevalier

Pray for inmates walking to court in chains
chains around their ankles they do feel pain.
How does this affect the human psyche?
Are we making them more like criminals
that want to fight?
Or does it make them feel good
make them feel understood?
Now I can see putting chains on
killers, rapists and the mentally insane- -
But to put in on the average person what does that gain?
It’s not the Maslow’s law of being trained
it’s more like it wilts their spirits and leaves a stain.
If not out of demeaning jail in time
most will come back doing a worse crime.
Or maybe commit suicide?