Title: why prisons don’t work – Barbra Dozier's Blog
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Content: Most inmates that joined Rideau in prison were amateurish, spontaneous and uneducated misfits, most of them black, who had committed dumb and impulsive offenses. State security officials should not hold prison inmates for long because they could use funds spent to rehabilitate inmates to catch up with other criminals in the streets. Confining convicts behind bars for long periods does not help them reform into acceptable members of the society but instead many become worse with others even losing their lives while in prison. Criminals that end up in jail commit different offenses so they deserve to receive different forms of punishment. For instance, prison officials should not subject petty offenders to similar punishments as other offenders who commit worse crimes such as rape, robbery or murder. Indeed, according to the Human Rights Watch (2007), there is widespread victimization of inmates in prisons in America. Ideally, prisons should serve the purpose of punishing prisoners, protecting the public as well as rehabilitating the prisoners. This is not possible to achieve without proper reforms in prisons. Confining criminals for long in prison does not help them to reform. Instead, most offenders going to prison get to meet other hardened criminals who teach them worse forms of crimes.