Title: why prisons don’t work – Barbra Dozier's Blog
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Content: The inmate encountered violence on a frequent basis from older and stronger inmates that had gone to prison for worse offenses than his. Such experiences only worsen inmates as they develop and embrace violent behaviors through experience. Moreover, these inmates usually go to the extent of raping fellow inmates that are weak when lights go out. For example, Pittman (n.d) notes that rape cases in prisons are quite common as he narrates an experience of a former inmate who encountered rape regularly from former inmates. Such violent assaults traumatize other inmates, making them commit worse offenses in bid revenge and vent out their anguish and frustration. Similarly, young convicts face older convicts who often take advantage of them sexually. The older inmates abuse the young inmates by forcing them to work for them, willfully injuring them as well as by using them as their sex slaves. Subjecting these young inmates to such experiences only worsens their characters while they might have gone to prison for petty offenses. In conclusion, it is obvious from the above examples that prisons do not work. In fact, the prisons might work against their intended objectives, as the inmates are likely to come out of jail worse off than they came.