The question whether the primary purpose of prison is to educate or to punish is an extremely controversial issue, which is widely discussed nowadays. In current society, all people know the function of prisons and also know it is not a good place. From ancient times to the present, almost every major ancient civilization treated the prison as a place to detain prisoners and kill criminals. In these early times, prisons were often used as temporary detention places before being sentenced to death or enslaved. That was a big punishment for people to go to the jail. However, is the main purpose of prison only to punish people? It may be argued that the reason why the main purpose of prison is to punish because the function of punishment is to
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The prison is a correctional tool, not a punish place where the perpetrator suffers from the crime. In any society, must be offenders and those who make mistakes into prison. However, the principle of modern basic education is to punish as a corrective measure. On the contrary, the new educational theory supports negative rewards as criminal disciplinary measures. A study of the rate of re-crime of educated prisoners shows that since 1990, prisoners who have been educated during their imprisonment are unlikely to return to prison after release (James 2004). Studies in several states of the United States have shown that the rate of recidivism reduced after the prisoners receive appropriate education. In addition, James (2004) claims that the correct educational program has led to less violence among the prisoners who participated in the program and a more positive prison environment. At a meantime, effective educational programs can help prisoners master their social skills, artistic skills, techniques and strategies to help them deal with their emotions. Besides, the prisoners can accept academic and social education. The prisoners who participated in these educational programs do so because they see a clear opportunity to improve their employability after being released. Currently, people all were born an era of focusing on education, most of us …show more content…
Prisoners are divided into three categories, the first is people have bad behaviours like fighting with others or stealing things, the second type is financial criminals, the last one is people who killed many people including children and policeman. The last type of people is really bad that cannot change, this type of criminals need punishment like limiting freedom or death penalty. But the other two types of criminals need education. The financial criminals are very intelligent in general, they can change through the right education method and use their clever brains to do something useful and benefit to the society. Nevertheless, financial criminals also can help the people who fight others or steal things change their bad behaviours and influence them by teaching them the way to make money. If the main purpose of prison is to punish people, the first two types of criminals will lose the opportunity to be a useful person to society. It is confirmed that excessive punishment will cause the prisoner to have a psychological revenge. The data shows that under the comparison of various types of crime, murder crime is only about 10 percent of the total, and the remaining 90 percent consists of sexual assault, robbery, stealing, fighting, political crime and financial crime (The
The prison is a correctional tool, not a punish place where the perpetrator suffers from the crime. In any society, must be offenders and those who make mistakes into prison. However, the principle of modern basic education is to punish as a corrective measure. On the contrary, the new educational theory supports negative rewards as criminal disciplinary measures. A study of the rate of re-crime of educated prisoners shows that since 1990, prisoners who have been educated during their imprisonment are unlikely to return to prison after release (James 2004). Studies in several states of the United States have shown that the rate of recidivism reduced after the prisoners receive appropriate education. In addition, James (2004) claims that the correct educational program has led to less violence among the prisoners who participated in the program and a more positive prison environment. At a meantime, effective educational programs can help prisoners master their social skills, artistic skills, techniques and strategies to help them deal with their emotions. Besides, the prisoners can accept academic and social education. The prisoners who participated in these educational programs do so because they see a clear opportunity to improve their employability after being released. Currently, people all were born an era of focusing on education, most of us …show more content…
Prisoners are divided into three categories, the first is people have bad behaviours like fighting with others or stealing things, the second type is financial criminals, the last one is people who killed many people including children and policeman. The last type of people is really bad that cannot change, this type of criminals need punishment like limiting freedom or death penalty. But the other two types of criminals need education. The financial criminals are very intelligent in general, they can change through the right education method and use their clever brains to do something useful and benefit to the society. Nevertheless, financial criminals also can help the people who fight others or steal things change their bad behaviours and influence them by teaching them the way to make money. If the main purpose of prison is to punish people, the first two types of criminals will lose the opportunity to be a useful person to society. It is confirmed that excessive punishment will cause the prisoner to have a psychological revenge. The data shows that under the comparison of various types of crime, murder crime is only about 10 percent of the total, and the remaining 90 percent consists of sexual assault, robbery, stealing, fighting, political crime and financial crime (The