When offenders go to prison the main focus should be on the prisoners never returning, and becoming a better citizens than they were in society beforehand. Better known as the rehabilitation process that prisons try to utilize as much as possible. Even though that is the main goal that is not the case in most modern day prison systems, because of the high rates of recidivism. Prison as punishment is one of the main reasons for this phenomenon. When punishing people to prison, offenders usually loss their source of income. Resulting in them having to do illegal things to make money when they get out of prison. Now looking at prison as a school of crime, which is also a huge factor in the rates for recidivism. This mostly goes for prisoners
