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An Alternative for Prison
Title: An Alternative for Prison
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1417 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
An Alternative for Prison
America's prisons have been called "graduate schools for crime." It
stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and
privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their
cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered
underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to
it.
Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They
take the nonviolent offender and make …showed first 75 words of 1417 total…
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Crime is the result of morally responsible people making wrong
moral decisions, for which they must be held accountable. The just and
necessary response to such behavior is punishment, which may include
restitution for community service, stiff fines, or , in cases where the
offender is dangerous, prison. But let's not kid ourselves any longer.
The
prison was not designed to cure the individual; it was made to lock him
up.
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