Your Thoughts About Prison
I would want to know what you think about prison, jails, etc.
In my opinion, the way the prisons treat their prisoners is a bad idea. Why? Well, it's bad to send people who don't follow the society's laws to a place where they are treated like garbage. Let's not mention when the prisoners get out; no one will hire them because of their record. Jail and prison are terrible, since the prisoners are punished instead of rehabilitated. A way that prisons could be better is to not punish the prisoners and are taught how to function in society. In other simple words, try to improve the people that go through the prisons and jails.
So, what are your thoughts about prison?
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I think instead of building prisons, we should send them to outer space, let them live on mars.
What I think of US prisons...
1.) They are often exploitative.
2.) They focus too much on punishment and isolation over rehabilitation.
3.) They are very overcrowded, a situation that's dangerous to both prisoners and correctional officers.
4.) They are finishing school for crime and gangbanging. A crip who goes to jail barely affiliated is likely to get much more involved with gang business.
5.) They rely too much on solitary confinement to punish infractions instead of getting to the root of the problem.
6.) They have few opportunities for education and self-improvement.
7.) A lot of people shouldn't even be there, at least not for so long. (Drug crimes)
8.) Many provide inadequate healthcare.
9.) They're a revolving door.
You are exactly right. The US Prison system needs to definitely be revised.
Too Bad So Sad? Prison isn't supposed to be fun.
It depends on the crime.
I believe all convicted rapist and child molesters should be castrated before being sent to prison.
My opinion on prisons is that rehabilitation is more important than punishment. Therefore, they need to be given at least something close to decent conditions to live while in there. That means no overcrowded cells (it is not unusual here in Brazil to have 30+ people in a cell built for 5), no beatings, no rotten food, a way for them to pass their time (if they can be productive while at it, even better), access to education inside the prison, psychological and medical care. In my country, there is no death penalty or the possibility to be convicted to life in prison, so we must always keep in mind that one day that person is going to go back to our society, and if they can't be functional members of society by then they will commit more crimes.
I also think it is important to do regular psychological tests to identify psychopaths so they are not put together with regular people. They are very good at influencing other criminals that otherwise could be rehabilitated.
I do not want to go to one involuntarily. That's about it. I suppose it's better than the old system of just hanging everyone or putting them in a pillory.
I agree. In my opinion, the state of most prisons in North America is terrible and provide inadequate rehabilitation services, focusing more on punishing prisoners rather than helping to prevent criminal activity in the future. Prisons shouldn't be used as a timeout for criminals but as a center for treatment. In the US, prisons act as warehouses for the mentally ill when they shouldn't. Psychological screenings should not only be used to tell the mentally ill apart from the non-mentally ill so that they aren't combined, but so that proper treatment, surveillance and medication is issued. Guards and staff who work in correctional facilities need to be properly trained so that they are able to handle any emergency or prisoner dispute with care and without violence, and anyone who breaks these rules should be discontinued from service. It is a guard's duty under the law to protect prisoners in an institution, and violence of any sort is unacceptable.
Prison, I don't know. I hear mixed reviews. I would give jail a 2/10. At least there is usually a TV.
Its a necessary evil
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But jail doesn't have a good beat and it's hard to dance to.
That's interesting, because there's a TV show in which society is destroyed by nuclear war and 100 criminals are sent back to Earth to determine if it's habitable again and resettle.
You mean the 100?
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Can you believe this?!
the goal of prison nowadays is rehabilitation, however i do think there should be a punishment aspect to it, else prison would just be like a nice free place to live and get an education, a lot of people have a hard life and aren't criminals, so why should criminals have a better life than them?