The Pros And Cons Of Prison Reform

Would you believe me if I told you that prisons were originally built to reform prisoners? With they way the criminal justice system works and how high the rates of mass incarceration are, in today's day and age, I, myself, would not believe that prisons were built with a positive outcome in mind. If someone would have told me that in the eighteen hundreds prison were used as a place to reform individuals, I would have given them a nasty looking face full of disbelief. But now that I have this information, the question is, what changed? Why is this method still not being practiced in today’s society? However, while asking these question, I realize that it is absolutely amazing the way things change and how easily things are tainted. According
However, the necessity and effectiveness of punishing inmates can be questioned. For me, to answer the question of the effectiveness and necessity of punishment on people, in general, is difficult. But based on research, the answer is yes and no. I would say no for several reasons mainly because, I do not condone violence, and that is mostly how they punish prisoners. To me the worse punishment for someone serving life on a first-degree murder charge is the absence of forgiveness from the deceased’s family. For most, being in prison is not the hard part, but sitting in there realizing that no matter how hard you repent and apologize, you will never be forgiven, that must hurt more than any physical punishment
If someone is so accustomed to violence, then treating that person with violence is not going to help, because at the end of the day, when, and if, this person is released, how do you expect they are going to respond to something that they do not like? I will take ‘with violence’ for three hundred, please. And after that happens, where will they ended up? You guessed right, prison. A place where they are continuously treated with violence, so in actuality, it is a never ending cycle that is difficult to escape (Alexander). Also, what about prisoners who get out and have kids and cannot supported their families, so they steal to support their families, and then get caught, as this was the case with Olivia Hamilton