Why Do Criminals Deserve A Second Chance?

Do criminals deserve a second chance? That is the primary question that comes to the jury mind when they pass the final verdict. Everyone knows what a prison is, but no one has any idea how prisons work from the inside in all of the different countries in the world. In the article "Norway's Ideal Prison" by Piers Hernu, the author describes how Bastoy, a prison located in Norway, treat its prisoners completely different than any other prison around the world. However, in the article "The Prisoner's Dilemma" by Stephen Chapman, he says how the westerns and eastern countries make criminals pay for their crimes. In both articles, the authors talk about how different both prison systems operate in areas such as treatment and punishment.
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In Norway, the criminal justice system is more focus on rehabilitation because they believe that everyone deserves a second chance, despite the crime they committed. For instance, when a criminal is charged for an offense he or she gets a fair trail for the court to decide the right punishment depending on the crime they committed. Hernu says, " " In the other hand, in "The Prisoner's Dilemma," Chapman say how Islamic countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran use their punishment base on Koranic law which is a brutal way to punish humans being. They're many punishments for different crimes in these countries. For example, if someone is caught drinking or having illicit sex, then they get stoned to death in public. Other crimes as stealing are punishing by amputating their hands in public for theft. Also, death penalty for those who committed murdered is carried out to public to show people to consequences. Nevertheless the Unite States, punishments is somehow different than Norway. In the United States, they have the death penalty and lifetime sentence to criminals, which in Norway the maximum time frame that a criminal can be in prison is up to twenty-one year no matter the crime they