: About Me

Tara Rijon was born and raised in central Michigan. Moving to the
Southwest in 1980, she pursued a career with the Arizona State government,
where she held such positions as statistical analyst, benefits eligibility
manager and corrections officer. During this period, Tara also raised
five children and attended college full time, majoring in political
science with a minor in psychology. Though she wrote informally from the
time she was a young child, her busy schedule left little time to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an author.

Over the years, Tara has enjoyed traveling throughout North America
and obtaining insight on the varied people and cultures. She has written and published numerous articles covering a wide variety of areas to include (but not limited to) health, science, politics, religion and social behavior.

Currently retired, she resides in southern California, where she continues to write avidly for web and magazine publications. Her first published work having been in 1975, she is currently working on her first non-fiction book which she aspires to publish in the coming months.

She is also an ordained minister.

tararijon@hotmail.com

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

nothing, but getting smarter every day!

My parents always told me ...

"Do as I say, not as I do!"

My childhood ambition ...

to be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

being in love

Why I write ...

to release the knowledge and feelings within me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

working on my first non-fiction

My first job ...

Car hop! (That's when they actually had them)

My best moment ...

Still waiting . . . . . . .

My inspiration ...

life

Politics, News & Issues > Police & Prisons Do US prisons really rehabilitate criminals?

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Having worked with the Arizona Department of corrections, I can tell you first hand how criminals are rehabilitated within our prisons. When an individual is sentenced to prison they enter into an entirely different world from that which they've become accustomed. There is no one to protect them from the many influences offered, and no one to make decisions for them. They are as much alone as the day that they came into the world. The first thing that every new inmate must go through is orientation (which is generally 1-2 weeks, depending on the state). This consists of having the faciliti...

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