3. Work with a partner. Take turns telling each other your answers. (You can review your notes first, but don't look at them while you are speaking.) Then share your answers as a class.

3. Listening 2 INTERVIEW WITH AMY: The prison experience

Here are some words and phrases from the interview with Amy printed in bold and given in the context in which you will hear them. They are followed by definitions. what really works - not for hardened criminals, but for first-time offenders: people who commit a crime for the first time The first step is deterrence: stopping people from committing crime Criminals are not being rehabilitated: taught how to have a socially acceptable way of life You end up having a lot of people in prisons who are not the kingpins of drug deals: most important people There need to be programs that have a psychological and an educational component: part We need to make prison a less repressive experience: cruel and severe We need bridge programs: programs that help released prisoners adjust to society Most criminals are recidivists: repeat criminals so that society doesn't look at released prisoners in such a disdainful way: disrespectful, critical so that no stigma is attached: shame

1. Amy does not believe that the current prison system is very effective. She describes the experience of a person before being convicted of a crime, while in prison, and after being released. Listen to the interview with Amy and fill in the chart with the main ideas that she discusses.

	What Amy thinks should happen	The present situation
Before a person is convicted of a crime and sent to prison	There should be more jobs and more social support systems.	The economy and the social structure don’t help prevent crime.
While a convicted criminal is in prison
After a person is released from prison

2. Compare your answers with a partner.

4. After the interviews

1. Following is a paraphrase of the interviews with David and Amy. Fill in the blanks using your own words. In some cases, you will need to write more than one word.

David says that the ______________________ and the ______________________

exacerbate the problem of juvenile crime. He believes that kids are essentially ______________________. He thinks they need more ______________________ systems and after-school activities. He also thinks they need good role models. However, he believes that if someone does commit a crime, the punishment should be ______________________, but ______________________.

Amy says that to deter people from committing crime, you have to talk about social factors such as whether there are enough ______________________ for everyone and enough social support systems. But if convicted criminals are sent to jail, we need programs to ______________________ them, such as drug treatment programs and ______________________ programs. Unfortunately, many of the programs that she thinks are needed have been ______________________.

Amy believes that one reason there are so many recidivists is because criminals have a bad experience in jail. When prisoners are released, Amy thinks they need ______________________ to help them go back into society.