Does prison rehabilitate criminals?
May 30th, 2008 by Website admin
Mark has an opinion piece called ‘Does prison rehabilitate criminals or just make them worse?’ on the Friction TV website. Watch it here.
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June 25th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Prisons can rehabilitate if education and self discovery are placed at the heart of the programme. Many people sent to prison have no idea of who they are, what they want, where they are heading and any idea of their purpose. They feel no sense of value as human beings because very little in their childhood affirmed or reinforced whom they wished to be. Most important, many lack the basic confidence to believe in their potential and to lift themselves from the rut they might be in on to something more enhancing. Hence a cycle of deviant action to either hurt themselves or society.
Very few people should be sent to prison. Having them doing community work, developing that person’s self esteem, affirming and helping them to realise their own value and worth would do far more to rehabilitate them than continuing incarceration.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
not really.
especially when we are taking about the youth of today.being a youth myself i know alot of young men who have come across the justice system in their lives,but do not have a care in the world if they go to prison,simply because prison is “minor” meaning,they do not fear prison.prisons have become more a place of luxury than punishment.prisoners seem to have more rights than many law obiding citizens and it seems that victims friends and families suffer more than the actual offender.
for example,murderers on average get around 12 years,how can 12 years in a prison where you are allowed tvs,gyms,pool tables,dvds,social interaction,jobs and workshops,be any form of justice for victims families and friends.if life really did mean lifei think there would be a rapid decline in youth murders.
prisons should be tough,especially for murerersrapists and peadophiles.minor crimes should be punished by community service or national service!
the prison service in this country is an actual joke to be honest.we might aswell just let them all out and be done with it for all the good prisons are doing
August 5th, 2008 at 3:50 am
If your people suffer from being ill educated and their manner corrupted from infancy, then punish them for those crimes to which their first education delt them, then what else is to be concluded but that you first make thieves and then incarcerate them?