text: would you think am a bad person because i"ve been to jail for long peroids of times?   depends on if you are reformed to society or not. since you've been more than once, i assume you didn't reform yourself the first time. i think people that have been incarcerated have the ability to reform their lives and be productive people in society, but it has to be a concious effort on the persons part to wanna change. i wouldn't hold it against you unless you repeatedly made the same mistakes again. like the above comment, it also depends on the crime.