03USMC
Active member
In my opinion doing time means two things:
a) punishment for commited crimes
b) resocialisation.
If you only punish in prison you release even tougher criminals. If they have not been taught to function as a normal participant in our society, you know what they will do. I rarely hear about the second part of punishment and I reckon it is too easily forgotten. Strip them of all their social rights and you'll leave them with nothing.
Most prisons have those programs alot of sentences include programs to be eligable for parole. So yeah they go to all the rehabilitative stuff................so they can be paroled. Then come out and re-offend.
It's easy to blame it on the system, problem is most of the scumbags have no desire to change.