Criminal Justice Rehabilitation

There’s a crack of a gun. Looking left, you see a lifeless body falling to the ground. Everything's a blur and numb. Turning right, someone is fleeing the scene, rifle in their hand. While kneeling down, the soul leaves the body of what appears to be a man in his late thirties. While trying to tend to the bloody, lifeless body, the sirens start to emerge out of the silence of the night. It is easy to see that they are on a mission, trying to find who did this to this poor man. The words finally come to mind, telling the man in blue that the shooter ran toward the alley on your right. The police tend to the lifeless body, that has ended up in your now bloody arms. Other policemen start on foot to find the unknown person in charge of this awful
Recalling the event, tears start to flow. After a while, the sentence is revealed. This awful man is convicted of murder. While sitting, replaying the events, you hear this criminal will be in jail for fifty years, but if he completes rehabilitation and community service he can get out sooner. Pausing, the idea comes to mind that the judge has made a mistake. How can a man who has done such a thing receive rehabilitation? Criminal justice rehabilitation is the act of assisting criminals in trying to regain their life and try to learn from their mistakes. Although some may think this sounds like a good idea, there are many ways that it is not. Criminal justice rehabilitation should not be enforced because it is extremely costly, a lot of people are getting arrested again after being in jail for a short period of time, and crime rates are
However, there are still many ways criminals can take advantage of rehabilitation. While receiving rehabilitation, criminals are able to get an education. Again, taxpayer money is going to criminals being able to learn. For example, over 14,000 received an associate’s degree and over 200 received a bachelor’s degree(Andrews). Normally, one would pay around $22,000 for college. Americans’ hard earned money is being used to pay for prisoners to get an education. It doesn’t take a degree to realize that it is very easy for a criminal to take advantage of this