Summary Of The Book 'The Dangling Key'

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The Dangling Key

Hard, rough and tattoos all over, this what most people believe that criminals look, it’s the stereotype which most criminal believed to be like. Well, some of population of criminals are like this not all of criminals wearing tattoos and act tough. Some people also believe that prison is there to keep criminals away from people for a period of time well it serve this purpose another purpose is that they are serving in a sort of rehabilitation which they supposedly are placed while they are in prison. Some of the people, which locked away vary from petty crime like theft to murder and rape. However should the key for serious criminals be tossed away and the criminal chance of getting out to nil or starting off that way. The
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As he was showing improvement, he was allowed to do university grades while in prison, he showed great so he was released from prison. It cost $90,000 to arrest and contain an offender. People say crime pays while maybe there some payment by not just from the criminals the government spends millions of taxpayer money for criminals each year. Maybe we can help with this and aid them and lead them to a second chance doesn’t people who are showing improvement is a productive member of the community. Prisoners sometimes it's better when they will not always be a prisoner. If we let a second chance. We just need to imagine us in their shoes wouldn’t we want a second chance and you are willing to improve we wouldn’t want hard work to be wasted would we? Criminals aren’t always monster which we think then and we don’t need to place all prisoners under the stereotype. The movies always apply people getting harassed by these prisoners, but do all prisoners appear like this? We need to know who the prisoner who are these cells? They could be your brother, the baker across the road, the mechanic which fixed your car, and they could even be

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