does prison really rehabilitates criminals?

Answer 1

it's not supposed to fix them, it's supposed to be punishment.

supposed to be.

people my way get put in prison on purpose so they can learn from "the godfather of meth". he's got a life sentence, and people get put in on short sentences to learn his ways

Answer 2

No. RETRIBUTION is the reason behind prehistoric prison mentality.
You all pay taxes to fund the prison service who punnish you if you step out of line.
You are brainwashed from an early age to be submissive to the Law wear a collar and become OWNED by the state.
You should become a product. groomed to be a good taxpayer live in a numbered fixed box and raise a family of self grooming taxpayers following all the other farm animals in circles.
But should you decide that you no longer want to be a product of the state and want to be a none tax paying freelancer with your own moral values on life, you become a criminal and need correcting.
Some weak individuals are "rehabilitated" as you put it , but most have no intention of being a SUCKER. Owned by the state.

Have you ever wondered why you are tied down with a morgage?

Answer 3

Only 1% of criminals a year will make it the rest of their life rehabilitated. That is a fact.

Answer 4

very rarely. a person can only be rehabilitated with intensive counselling, the motivation to change, and the resources to live outside the prison system (both mental and financial resources). unfortunately the prison system does not provide this things on any great scale. prison is more for punishment than rehabilitation.

Answer 5

Not really. A prison mostly just warehouses people until it is time to send them back out. If it really did rehabilitate them there wouldn't be such a high rate of returning criminals. Of course for people like me (Correctional Officers) them returning is job security.

Answer 6

Heavens no, prison makes better criminals out of most criminals...rehabilitation isn't what prison is about.

Answer 7

Its supposed to be a penal system not a rehab system. The percentage of repeat offenders is high but without a source handy I won't attempt to say what the percentage is.

While certainly there are those in prison that are one time offenders, most criminals commit crimes simply because they believe that they are exempt from societies rules. They think they are above them and the rest of us are simply there for them to prey upon. Changing this mindset is difficult. While some criminals do abstain from breaking the law again it normally just for fear of punishment, not because they have changed their mind.

Punishment is what affects criminals. More laws just affect law abiding citizens.

Answer 8

Depends on the crime. Rapists and child molesters, for example, have a high probability of re-offending. They might be model prisoners in prison, and even get out on "good behavior" but you have to take into the consideration that the temptation to commit their specific crime may be absent. A child molester, for example, has no children around him to be a temptation or to make him misbehave. Once he's on the outside, however, it's a different story. Homicide can be case to case (i.e. a man that kills his wife's lover in rage as opposed to a serial killer), the likelihood that the former will re-offend is much less than the "Ted Bundy" type.

Answer 9

It could, but it doesn't. We don't design prisons to rehabilitate criminals, just house them.

Answer 10

It's a hard question to answer. I know a couple of people who keep going back in as soon as they get out. But I also know some people who learned their lesson the first time around and have not returned. To me, the bottom line is that jails and prisons are necessary, but there's plenty of room for improvement in both.

Answer 11

It depends on the criminal, their crime.

Some offenders, can not (most) be rehabilitated. Some, who choose to better themselves, may learn a trade. Others, will learn more on how to become a bigger criminal.