A World Without Prison Rehabilitation

What if there were no jails? What would it do with all the people we view as criminals? What would become of our judicial system? Would wrongdoers roam free or be given another way to pay their debt to society? Would you give in to those desires you’ve had to do wrong, knowing there may not be any consequences? Or would you live in a state of paranoia and barricade yourself in your home with hopes that no one bothered you? Your responses to the questions indicate the kind of world we live in. If our prison systems were adequate and offered a chance at rehabilitation, the question of whether or not abolishment of them would not arise. Firstly, to envision a world without jails, we have to first figure out why they would be eliminated. One reason is that prison teaches you to become a better criminal. You go in and come out with better ways to steal and kill. Prison does not offer many opportunities to reform oneself. They lock you away for hours at a time and release you only for meals and yard time. How can one become a better person if they are not given the resources to do so? Another reason to get rid of prisons, is that there would be no unnecessary arrests. Policemen would not have to fabricate tickets and charges to fill their monthly quotas. They would have to get valid reasons to …show more content…
We would have to figure out why certain crimes were given more time than others when they could cause the same amount of damage. The lawmakers of this country would have to come up with a way to make prisons have better conditions and opportunities to better oneself if they were to be brought back in the future. Programs should be put in place where they could the actual help that they needed. They could get food that they actually like and comfortable living arrangements instead of food that rats wouldn’t eat and threadbare