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Jonathan Wayne Nobles Truly Rehabilitated?

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Jonathan Wayne Nobles was not truly rehabilitated. No one will ever know the truth if he was or was not fully rehabilitated, but there are several reasons to point to him not being reformed. First off, the change in his behavior. His behavior changed drastically, he went from being a basic criminal and killer to a reformed Catholic. A reason for this change in Nobles was in some eyes just a façade. The reason for him converting to Catholicism is he finally found comfort in knowing he found acceptance. His whole life he never knew what it was like to be accepted, so once he found it, he ran with it. Nobles noticed that other inmates and even guards gave him respect and let rules slide, so he took advantage of his new-found religion. Secondly, his years of drug use, since the age of eight years old. Anyone who has been on and off drugs since an early age can’t be in their right mind. Years of drug abuse can take a toll on the human mind and severely damage one’s perception of what is right and wrong. While not being able to ever have a clear mind from the damages from drugs can one ever truly be rehabilitated? …show more content…

From the mind of a killer, he was trying to convince everyone that he was an altered man. Most men want to leave behind a legacy and Nobles didn’t want to leave behind the legacy of being a killer. Nobles thought if he changed and became a reformed Catholic that his death would leave behind the impression of a rehabilitated man, a different man, even a respectable man. The fact is, he was a killer that killed two women and stabbed a man. His footprint in history is that of a

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