Punishment Vs Rehabilitation . Life Is Full Of Choices,

In today 's prison system of the United States, over 75% of the prisoners have the right to many luxuries while incarcerated instead of getting punished for the crimes committed. In fact, many inmates receive better health care than most people in the United States. Certainly, inmates have more luxuries than the citizens who work hard for them. With that in mind, inmates may consider jail better than the real world. No doubt inmates deserve treatment of an adult for the crimes they have committed. But also should get the punishment they deserve. In today 's world, inmates are not fully punished for the crimes committed.

Prison is obviously not working on rehabilitating prisoners because there are prisoners who are released, but they don't return to prison. Yet, the majority of prisoners released do go back to jail. Criminals think they're not going to get caught or they're so emotionally desperate or psychologically distressed that they don't care about the consequences. To lower the recidivism prisons should offer real rehabilitation to prisoners. Criminals are not all waste people; most of them could just have haven a crisis that make them commit the crimes.

Prison has been around in human society for many millions of years. Having someone who disobeyed the law of that village, town, city or country punished in some form of institution, cutting them off from people, is a common concept – a popular and supposedly "needed" process society has taken to doing for many years now has been put under the spotlight many times by many different figures and people in society. The question remains – do prisons only make people worse? Many articles have been published in many journals and newspapers of the western world (mainly the USA, UK and Australia) saying prison only makes a person worse yet no complaint of the method has come from the less liberal eastern societies; this only proves how in countries

Incarceration is thought of as a positive form of punishment, and negative form of punishment. The opinion varies with the type of person, and their experience from jail if they have gone. Most inmates while in prison will tell you it is a horrible place that should be gone. That would allow criminals to be free and that would let them cause harm to others or other illegal activities. Incarceration was not designed to be a paradise, it is a detention center for the bad, and meant for them to be punished. Without jails the world would be filled with even more evil, and would leave people in more danger than they already are.

It is interesting to see how our prison came about. Through the years and centuries we have been trying to find the right way to deal with criminals. Yes, criminals where dealt with brutally and maybe too brutal for the crimes committed. Today someone can commit murder and get 25 years. I don't feel that during these 25 years the criminal will really get reformed. How many prisoners get out of prison and go back to society as normal people. It seems to me that they usually have been in prison for so many years they have trouble going back to society. The only way they know how to live is how they lived in prison. In prison they get a bed to sleep in, food and clothing and they don't have to work hard for it. So they are quick to commit another crime to go back there. Seeing this happen over and over I feel that you really can't reform our prisoners or the prisons they are locked up in. In Prays essay we

We live in a capitalistic society and people obviously try their best to maximize profit. To inspire change, people must first reflect on the morality of their decision-making. To begin the debate of the morality of private prisons, we must define what a prison should do. Many would agree that prisons should serve as punishment for committed crimes and rehabilitation so these committed crimes won’t repeat. I believe that after prison sentences, inmates should be able to reintegrate into society. Unfortunately, the harsh reality is that 77% of released inmates are sent to prison again within five years of their release. This problem extends far wider than just private prisons. It involves prisons all across the United States. Too many prisons are focusing mainly on punishment for crimes and forgetting about the reintegration of these people into society. Chances are, released prisoners are left jobless for long periods of time because of the sheer difficulty of finding a job as a felon. Many do not have the proper education to find higher level jobs and are limited to a very small set of jobs. They still need to eat and have a place to stay so people do whatever they have to do to survive, illegal or

And yet, crime rates are higher than any other country on average. The United states spends billions on facilities every year. As budgets from the penal system increase, there are fewer resources for education, health care, economic development, state & local police, and other public services that prevent crime. But has this increase of incarceration made our country safer? Long prison sentences have had a decrease on crime. However, no more than 25% of it was because of incarceration. About $70 billion is spent on corrections yearly and about $240 billion is spent on facilities. “Criminals learn better how to commit crimes, but not how to be productive in the free world or how to abandon their selfishness. Solid evidence proves that returning parolees increase crime rates in their neighborhoods.” Perhaps if we spent more money on corrections rather than facilities, this might not be a problem and more people would stay out of jail. Conditions in prison have a direct effect on criminals physically, mentally, and psychologically. Prison does not appear to help offenders. “Imprisonment can be an expensive way of making bad people worse.” (Former home secretary Lord Douglas Hurd.) If the money we spent towards facilities was used for alternative solutions to reform criminals, incarceration levels would most likely decrease. Restorative justice, for example gives victims the chance to communicate with their offenders to explain the real impact of the crime. Restorative justice can also help prisoners develop relationships outside of prison, which can help with positive personal growth. I believe this gives offenders a chance to change their ways. 49% of victims involved in a victim offender programme found that it helped their recovery

Lee Tergeson, actor from the television show OZ said, “I know what it is like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it is a holding cell.” (Tergeson, 2002) He speaks the truth.

The purpose of jail is retribution. To be incarcerated you have done something that violates a criminal code. Individuals who break these laws should have to give up their freedom and serve the time that is awarded to them. For example, the Long-Term Offenders Program offers those individuals incarcerated for the remainder or majority of their lives an outlet to spend their time and achieve something meaningful. I completely sympathize that rehabilitation is a fantastic way to reduce incarceration rates and free up space in jails for more violent offenders. Nevertheless, if you commit a crime, you are still breaking the law, and in turn, should be obligated to serve that time in

Roughly, two thirds of released prisoners are rearrested within three years of release, 47% were reconvicted, and 41% were re-incarcerated (National Center for Policy Analysis, 1998). Those are just the ones who get caught. If you return an individual to the community with $10 and a suit of clothes and no support systems, you can just about guarantee that that person is going to resort to some kind of criminal behavior. Because these numbers are so disproportionately high, we have to think in terms of doing something drastic with these offenders before they are released back into society. If no constructive plan of action can be formulated, invariably our society will falter at the hands of these men and

What is the purpose of prison? It is believed that prison serves the purpose of punishing criminals for their wrongdoing and then releasing them back into society, ready to live a better life. Although in today’s times, it is more about punishment and not so much about rehabilitation. It is clear that prison is a pretty bad place, and that prison reform programs are way more effective at rehabilitation.

While investigating the correlation between the way in which the United States prison system treats its prisoners, and the amount of people who return to prison after release, it became apparent to me that there must be better ways to punish people for the crime they committed while

This belief indicated that if offenders could not be rehabilitated then they should be punished and it was time to get tough on crime. Within a relatively short time parole was attacked and the individual approach of indeterminate sentencing, or release by the authority of a parole board was abolished in 16 states (Rhine, Smith, and Jackson, 1991) and some form of determinate sentencing was adopted in all 50 states (Mackenzie, 2000)].

This process sounds reasonable, as the saying goes, “do the crime, do the time.” However, this process does not solve the problem; it only creates a temporary solution for lessening crime. Prison is like a long dangerous time-out for adults. Most people have the tendency to forget sending a criminal to prison is not permanent and that one day the offender will be back on the streets. Life after prison for a criminal often leaves them in difficult situations causing many to become repeat re-offenders and the justice system to fail. Many find themselves homeless, jobless, and unable to adjust to changes in society.

Being sent to prison is a common form of punishment today. Ever since the prison system was first created, many people approved and encouraged such a disciplining facility, while others, on the other hand, still see that incarcerating a free man is the most inhumane thing one could do. Because prisons have made successful results in societies, relieve innocents, and have few drawbacks, I believe it is important that serious criminals must be prisoned.