Prison

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they are released? Instead, why not put them to work outside prison where they could pay back the victims of their crimes? More work programs should be initiated; where the criminal is given a job and must relinquish his or her earnings to the victim of their crime until the mental and physical damages of their victims are sufficed. A court will determine how much money the criminal will have to pay for his restitution costs, and what job the criminal will have to do to pay back that restitution.
The most obvious benefit of this approach is that it takes care of the victim, the forgotten person in the current system. Those who experience property crime deserve more than just the satisfaction of seeing the offender go to prison and the resultant fight with the insurance company to...
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In recent years the prison and correctional system in the U.S. has come under close scrutiny. Mounting problems with violence, disease, and overcrowding have forced a reexamination of this country's entire prison and correctional program. Among the most important questions asked by this examination of the prison system is the underlying theory and purpose of the institutions. Under scrutiny, the question was raised as to whether or not the prisons of this country were doing the job that they were initially assigned to do. In reply to these questions, correctional institution officials were unified in their assertion that the lack of money, personnel, and space ...

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