Sending people to jail/prison has turned their sentence into a right of passage. How can we correct this?

Answer 1

Give the victims of crime more say in sentencing. Some victims do not want the criminls locked up for eternity. Rather they would like to see that person helped. Although there is definately room and needs for prisons, often these institutions are being used as warehouses for people who have issues other than just criminal thoughts. Many prisons are now gettting full with people with mental health issues. Help these people on the street and then there would be no need to imprison them.

But for prisoners who are using the system for three squares a day, are institutionalized or even municipal jails then these prisoners should indeed have some of the rights they have gained taken away. They should be giving back to the community by doing various forms of labour. Some may even gain employment and/or a trade while trying to serve the community. But they should not just be allowed to work out in the gym all they want or do nothing at all and just complete their disposition.

Prison although not an educational institution should be used to teach these people that society as a whole does not agree with what they have done and so they must somehow repay for their wrongs.

Answer 2

Prison is too easy for one. Make it harder also get rid of public housing and welfare that promotes SFN. SFN is something for nothing. People on welfare and in public housing think that the more kids they have the better off they are cause they get more money per kid. These children continue the SFN cycle and look at all the possibilities of this cycle and since daddy got sfn for breaking into the Mini Mart the kids do the same. Also daddy tells the kids to break in to the mini mart cause since they are kids they will get a slap on the wrist. Don't forget that daddy is on work release at least till he gets fired for doing drugs.If Daddy is actually around, which most times he is not.

Answer 3

It's nearly impossible to control someone else's attitude about jail or about anything. If someone is hellbent on destroying himself, knowing his lifestyle will eventually lead to jail time, he will take an ugly, uncontrollable prospect like jail, and romanticize it just to tolerate the thought of it. On the surface it looks like nothing more than brazen defiance, but it's really a psychological survival mechanism.

Criminal minds tend to find ways to pervert the terms of their punishment so they feel like they're maintaining more control than they actually have.


There is always some way to glorify a Hellish situation and people will inveritably find that way. Usually the people who do this figure there's no hope for them anyway, so they might as well see their "fate" as some positive, macho thing. Twisted but true.

Answer 4

Make jail an actual punishment, instead of free room and board, with widescreen televisions, video games and almost anything they want for free, all paid for by the taxpayers. Reinstitute chain gangs, make them work, and don't give them free luxuries that most people on the outside don't even have.

Answer 5

You make a good point about but it is spelled "rite".
Don't send them to jail make them pay huge fines and remove other privleges beside taking away their freedom.
If they do go to jail no tv, no reading material even relgious books, no recreation, a minimum of health care. no snacks or sodas just bread and water.

Answer 6

We're all in some kind of prison truth or lies anyway.Right of passage to what?

Answer 7

How about using jail as it was intended. your convicted of a crime, you lose your rights. That's IT.

Answer 8

You really don't want my answer i'm a correctional officer

Answer 9

throw away the key.

Answer 10

never let them out