Should People Be Sent To Prison Essay

Discipline is a controversial subject. No matter who is receiving the discipline, there are always people who are interested in having their opinion on the topic. Even when they have no understanding or working knowledge of said topic, people feel that they have an entitled say in the dialogue. In modern society, we have become more concerned with fairness to the offender than to properly impose a correction that will not only make the person not wanting to participate in the criminal end of life but to set examples to others who are debating making the same mistake. Unfortunately, with the “for profit” prison system, our correctional system is designed for failure. By making our prison program based on the profits revolving around the number of inmates in the facility, we have put more people away for petty crime, ruined the lives of millions of others, and shown that this system format is not effective for anyone but those who own stock in these companies. We have more prisons and more prisoners per capita than any other country in the world. We are also an industrialized modern country. Why are people be sent to prison and being sentenced to a cycle that never seems to stop? If a person commits a crime that …show more content…
With inserted opinions and comments from Professors from Ivy league colleges such as Harvard, UCLA School of Law as well as judicial officers and attorneys from states around the country, the people who contributed this information are experts in the legal system. They have a working understanding of the penal system and how it works, not in theory but actual working knowledge. If the of the opinion of the law professionals of that the system is flawed and needs to be re-worked, people should