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What do you feel the role of prison is in society?

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bill s
prison is to reabilitate and teach in inmates how to live a more fulfilled life while trying to make them think they have wronged


andy_manc_uk
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Its a deterrent, and it works for most people.

The prison population at present is full of the uneducated and mentally ill , if those problems were sorted before they had chance to manifest, we wouldn't need prisons.


TheGeneral
There is alot of bad people out their and the prisons are getting full, how about trying to reform some of them while they are in prison with skills so they can change their life around when they get out.Otherwise they are gonna find themselves locked up again because all they learned how to do was work out and make license plates.Im not saying train the killers and murderers but the ones that got busted for drugs and other stupid s h i t .


code4
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Criminals are sent to Prison as a form of punishment. There are various Levels of rehabilitation and education offered depending on the State and Custody level the Criminal is sent to. Criminal's are sent to prison to protect society,and rightly so. Most felons are eventually released back into society. it is the Prisons role to offer programs and education to change the unlawful and negative behavior of those sentenced. For example a criminal committed to prison for simple assault or domestic violence will most likely be mandated to take anger management classes while incarcerated. By logging onto any State Department of Corrections web site you can see their mission statement and their first goal is to protect the public.


mark c
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Honestly? They're for warehousing people FOUND guilty of crimes...not neccessarily the people that actually commited them.
That said..it's a warehousing system for criminals and a college of further advancement in the fine art of criminality for same and a school of education for those not yet schooled in the art.
As for reforming, re-education..gimme a break.
Prison systems from state to state, count to county are radically different. We certainly have some prisons that do some good. That's usually do to a super intelligent warden with some unique and radical ideas and certainly not standard prison rules and regs.
Inshort..they temporarily, in some cases permanently, take a person convicted of crimes off the street. No more..no less.


Mike M
Short term hotel.


Mrs. House 3
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The obvious... for punishment. But is it really a punishment when there are people who starve everyday, who can't sleep in a safe environment and have no system to better their lives? I'm all for the non- air conditioned, sweat on the chain gang, bread a water to eat types of prisons. It should be punishment, not a vacation in the rolling hills of a country side.


Kimberly T
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I know they cattier to the inmates, what the hell happened to the chain gaines, take away the tv, exercising equipment, library's, and their rights, they are there for a reason, jails are not a spas. We do have a say so in this after all we get to pay for the jail, prisons, ect.


The ones you fear
The role of prison in this society is to punish the lower class, and generate revenue for the upper class under the guise of protecting people. The system creates problems then punishes people for trying to solve them with the tools that are given to them. The system also allows the goverment to lock people away who have dissenting views with ease and protect corprate intrests.
A perfect example of this is the drug war.
The true role a prison should serve in society is a place to hold people who are convicted of a crime to rehabilitate them. the way to solve crime is to take away the causes of the crime not to unjustly punish people and teach them to be better criminals.
check out http://www.infowars.com/index.html for more information on prisons and the system inside the u.s.


Belen
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To house those who were convicted of committing crimes.


Cowpoke
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I feel that prison should be a place no one would enjoy being in. I don't believe in inhumane treatment but, I don't beleve they are intilled to all the rights they get. Work should not be an opion and all the law suits they file that cost the tax payers.


innocence faded
It should be a deterrent to crime and a punishment to those that commit crimes. However, thanks to the liberals, prison is now seen as not such a bad place to be, since the prisoners get free meals, free food, are not forced to work if they do not want to, they get free cable, free Internet, free gyms, free health and dental care, and other things that even some hard working law-abiding citizens do not get if they cannot afford them.

They also pretty much run the prisons, since the guards are not allowed to do anything that can harm a prisoner, even if one of them or a group of them are attacking the guards or some other prison employee.


capster
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to punish. To people who think prison is a fun place...NOT its dirty and insane. People are shot with rubber bullets. rock salt, told when to eat,sleep, and use the bathroom. Its not a comfortable place to be. While on the other hand prison is becoming one of the biggest retail industries around. I mean bob barker is investing in them for christ sake. They make everthing target stores sell. Its cheap labor 1.10 and hr is real cheap labor think about it. thats why the prisons are so full.Its slavery thats justified.


Natas
ugly people are way more likely to be thrown in prison then good looking people. Law of the jungle.


Helen
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Prison is a college for criminals , sentence a boy for stealing apples and he will be returned to society a man who is hard to the core with all notions of goodness driven from him .


Mr. PhD
Punishment plain and simple. No one is realistically rehabilitated in prison.

Bring back the chain gang.


lboonc
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What is done cannot be undone.If they can turn over a new leaf and never do any crime again,they should have the right to be treated as normal society members.Afterall,there are no role they can play in society.If you say they have role,do you mean killing is what we should follow?Destroying public amenities is what we should follow?or drug taking,stealing,corruption,and other negative deeds are what we should follow?But we cannot avoid everyone on Earth to be free of wrong doing.That's why we need police and military to keep the world in order.But we do hope everyone on Earth can understand the standards and laws of the world clearly so that the police and military are only a representation of discipline and not to catch and punish everyone in actual life.


'Dr Greene'
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Prison has three roles:

To punish, deter and Rehabilitate.


taureanboy90
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a lot keeping hardcore unwanted element out who r unfit to live in the socielt like a civil..........example u wont want a serial rapist living next door to you will you?


Veritas
PUNISH--- next please.


timboo28
Public Safety!!!


squeek6662001
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the role of a prison in this country is to store most of the *** ups and wrongful arrests the police make.


muggle
I think Prison is just a nice place for the criminals to stay whilst they are supposed to be paying back their debt to society.... they get it better than some people living in poverty....


Little Minx
Prison is more like a holiday for the criminals- they should be treated cruel and abused!


SUPER-GLITCH
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When I come out or go into my house, I have to lock and unlock two or three doors, plus a gate, check the alarms.
I think WE ARE more prisoners then those IN the prisons!!!





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