If prison is so hard why do so many people go back? Its not working is it!!?

Answer 1

Hard??, good meals, colour TV, cigarettes,drugs,gymnasium, sunbathing(some women prisoners are now complaining that they have a 'right' to wear bikinis..I ask you.). If they made conditions more austere, less privileges, NO cigarettes or drugs, strictly enforced, there would be MANY fewer re-offenders.
The 'human rights' lot would have none of it.
They are CRIMINALS..they CHOSE to break the law, it shouldn't be a holiday camp.
Change the system in say a year's time, give plenty of warning then if people DO get sent to prison after that it will have been THEIR choice and they wouldn't be able to complain about the conditions, they will have known about them beforehand and STILL done the crime.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Answer 2

Depends on your definition of "working." There are many, many very dangerous men and women in prison, who should be there. If you let them out the results would be catastrophic because they enjoy hurting and killing other people. In that sense, prison "works" to protect you and me from them. There also many, many men and women in prison who might be able to get by on the outside but they lack the skills to do so. They are fundamentally illiterate and without skills to perform even rudimentary jobs. They have little or no training in anything because they come from broken homes and have lived on the streets most of their lives. Can they be recovered? Absolutely! Are we doing a good job it? Not hardly. Frankly, most people would not want to invest the time, energy and effort (and money) necessary to provide the education required for people inside prison to be successful on the outside. In addition, someone who has a prison record finds it extremely difficult to get a good job--for obvious reasons--and so the cycle continues. I do not know where it will end.

Answer 3

There was a documentary recently about the Swedish system where prisoners are slowly trained to return back to society with a skill and lots of counselling

souds like an idea that might work here

Answer 4

crime and prison is a way of life for some people. the light sentences that get dished out these days are not much of a deterrent. the legal system clearly isn't working. but then this raises the issue of society as whole. education, poverty and bad parenting are contributing factors to rising crime levels.

the government have a long way to go. in the meantime its honest hard working people who suffer as the victims.

Answer 5

People go for conducting a crime. They may conduct a crime due to peer pressure or for funding drug dealing. This means they will still do it even after going to prison. Some people prefer going to prison rather than having to live on the streets. It is a sad fact.

Answer 6

When you have repeated offenders who try to look for work and get themselves back together. It's kind of tough. I don't like the choices they make. But if you an ex-convict that was convicted of drugs, served 5 years, they put him out on the street. He can get a low-paying job, but sometimes people like them want to choose the easier way of making money. I guess they return back to that lifestyle.

Most of this has to do with the self-confidence of the ex-con. Will he get out of this life and do better or not. Those that can believe in themselves. I'm sure they'll get around. However, you have those that lost faith in themselves. They are over and over again in trouble withe the law.

Answer 7

i worked in a prison as a corrections officer for 3 years and its not the the system "doesnt work" its that the people in thier get used to have to fend for their lives and do what they have to do and when they get out its not like thatbut they stay in the same mindset and do acts of violence outside the prison walls as a reaction to personal feelings or they just want attention most inmates about 8 out of 10 will return to the system in lessthan 3 weeks of their release because they dont know how to function in the "free world"

Answer 8

May be the prisons should have visiting days for tourists to see the real working jobs: from laundry shifts, doctoring, dentists, food services, janitorial work, library and comic book delivery, and what else prisons offers them incarcerated criminals jobs could be.

I am just guessing it isn't working, I mean in them prisons, like us civilians who own all the honest jobs think it is.

Answer 9

I see your point, but you have to remember that alot of people that have been in prison find it hard to aclimatise back into society.
They have a permanant mark againist their name which can make it hard to gain employment, which leads to going back to an unlawful lifestyle to make ends meet.
Prisioners can also get used to the routine of prision and coming back into society can be very daunting.
I can understand why people think that prision should be tougher but until you have been there I don't think you can judge.

Answer 10

Prison could be a LOT harder than it is. 3 meals a day, a warm place to sleep and cable television is a better life than many people in the world have busting their *** working. To get those privileges for committing a crime just does not seem right to me.