In school recently, for current events I had to research prison reform. It's basically a debate over the purpose of prisons, rehabilitation or punishment. I'd like to recieve some comments about what you think prisons should be for.
The US prison system is based on punishment. What we forget is that eventaully the people we put in prison to punish will be released. If they are not rehabilitated they will and do commit acrime. The crimes they commit are increasingly violent, so all we do with our present criminal justice system is give the criminal the bullet for his loaded gun.
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The US prison system is based on punishment. What we forget is that eventaully the people we put in prison to punish will be released. If they are not rehabilitated they will and do commit acrime. The crimes they commit are increasingly violent, so all we do with our present criminal justice system is give the criminal the bullet for his loaded gun.
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