Monday, July 27, 2020
Is America's Prison System Flawed?
Prison is supposed to be a rehabilitation system to change a criminal for the better good. However, that is not the case with our prison system, two-thirds of the criminals that were released from prison in 2005, ended getting arrested again by the end of their third year (Lichtenberg, 2016). Prison is supposed to be changing criminals into better people so they don’t commit crimes again. They’re very ineffective at stopping crimes. In prison, most of the time there are people fighting each other leaving one, if not both, of the inmates injured. Some are even found dead. I don’t think any violent activity should be going on in any prison. I know that cops try to prohibit it, but it’s very easy to start a fight very fast in prison. Fighting won’t teach prisoners how to be a better person, instead, it’s changing them for the worse. By the time their sentence is up, they’ve become a worse person, the complete opposite of what a prison should be doing.
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I completely agree with you, the prison system is extremely flawed. Some privately owned prisons are only there to accumulate a profit by keeping prisoners in, rather than changing the criminal. In fact, around 20% of prisoners are held in prisons used as profit. Not all prisons are privately owned, but the ones that are need to be abolished, as they are not there to help the prisoner get back on their feet. Prisons are supposed to rehabilitate the inmates back on track, and one easy way would be through prison education. However, Government cutbacks reduced the prisons with an education system by around 90%. The ones that still have education have a waiting list of thousands of people. The prison system clearly needs to be reworked, as it is no longer about rehabilitating them, its now making sure they end up right back into prisons as soon as they leave.
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