prison debate

People are sent to prison for committing a crime, the justice system shows that there are more than 186 crimes a criminal can appose and be sent to prison for their actions. as me and my partner explain. The purpose of punishment is to show disapproval for the offender’s wrongdoing, and to clearly condemn his criminal actions. This is why we punish; we punish to censure (retribution), we do not punish merely to help a person change for the better (rehabilitation). We still have to punish a robber or a murderer, even if he is truly sorry and even if he would really, really never offend again and even if we could somehow tell that for certain. This is because justice, and not rehabilitation, makes sense as the justification for punishment.The question is, “does it work?”statistics show that 70% of criminals who have left rehab, make the same mistakes as little of a year later. Rehab gives people qualified treatment to bring back ones self worth as well ones worth to the community. Place them in "programs", costs to defendant, that amounts to no more than monthly 75 dollar visits and a check in sheet. That'll fix em !if this By means of removing from society? Yes! for reasonable preset amounts of time ,(this being key), based upon severity of crime. the question is, if rehab does work, how do you know? how can you tell from an individual offender, if the rehab the criminal has been served, if it has changed their actions? You cannot expect long term criminal rehabilitation to work in such an environment except for a tiny fraction of those that are exposed to the layers of classes, counseling, education and training regimens employed by the state and federal systems. When a strong economic incentive is added to the mix there becomes every reason to criminalize more people and keep them locked up, and less reason to make "good citizens" out of them.