Title: why prisons don’t work – Barbra Dozier's Blog
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Content: 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. Retaining the prisoners is not only costly for the state as it also means that the inmates become accustomed to criminal activity and experiences and begin viewing them as acceptable. The inmates develop new, appalling habits that they never had such as drug use, violence, rape as well as new ideas to commit other crimes upon release. Certainly, holding inmates behind bars does not offer the appropriate solution because it worsens their characters and renders them as unproductive members of the society (Rideau, 1994). Cancel reply
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