Most crime is likely related to being poor, but this case shows someone who chronically chooses crime, even when they had a job. How do you "fix" that? There are people who will work hard to avoid being good. There are people who enjoy being bad, who enjoy hurting others, who enjoy screwing over others. How do you fix that? I'd contend that the best thing to do is remove those people from society. The American system is broken, but these kind of people can't be rehabilitated. You could "fix" them as much as you could "fix" someone's sexuality.
Possibly don't think about being poor in the context of just "needing more resources".
Think about it in the context of having much different risk/reward calculations for all activities, much higher stress levels, much worse access to health care, much higher levels of self-medication, higher sense of futility and unfairness in the world, possibly cognitive/emotional impairments due to unaddressed physical health issues, etc.
Unless you've been poor yourself, especially poor in a rich country, or unless you've worked directly with poor people and learned from them what it is like to live their lives, assume that it's far more difficult to simply /exist/ than you can imagine.
This is true. Being poor for prolonged time fuck with your mindset and rationality, their basic rationale of what's good is cloudy at best. Adult education of rationality for prisoners and underprivileged is where these resources should go.
