Confinement In Juvenile Prisons

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After watching yesterday’s episode of “Lock Up”, I believe that the prison system has not rehabilitated them. One inmate was in confinement for more than ten years and basically lost his will to live, at one point he stated how he missed things that people take for granted. He wrote poems to pass the time, and almost cried when he saw the moon for the first time. Another one was put in confinement because he attacked an officer, but no one believed the inmate. Punishment does not improve any of the inmates behaviors, it is proven in the amount of people that return to prisons. All the prison does is deprive people of living their lives.
However, technically it is not bad for everyone, inmates in one pod are allowed to use scissors to make

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