Quote from: Carter_Terrible on July 31, 2018, 02:23:56 PM

Quote from: Christopher_Nicholson on July 30, 2018, 01:24:17 AM

Quote from: scamX on February 25, 2018, 04:13:53 AM

Death penalty has its pro and con but I think it has little effect on reducing crimes. Though it does help reducing cost spent on prison. What do you guys think? Is there alternatives to punishing crimes?

I think the best alternative to punishment is education and work. Proper socialization of criminals positively affects a persons. I think that if psychologists and teachers work with the prisoners, they can reconsider their views on life and repent. As for the economic aspects, I think that prisoners should make the most money that spent on their maintenance..

That's what I think too. A big problem with many prison systems is that they make people worse. You gather the worse people in the country and put them all in the one place and treat the horribly. The culture is so toxic. Sometimes people end up in prison for some cyber crime and they are put together with rapists and murderers. They can come out as hardened gang members, when they went in for a crime the commit on their computer. Rehabilitation has to be priority. Prisoners should be treated with respect. The main punishment should just be that they are cut off from the rest of society. Their lives are put on hold for the whole time they are in jail.

This is a sad reality. Instead of helping these people to change for the better, educate them to learn and renew their lives, the community (and even our government) will condemn them and not giving them a second change to grow and mature.

I do agree also that they should be treated with respect (yes even though they do not give respect at the first place and they committed horrible crimes). We should start doing things as early as childhood development to prevent them from committing crimes the moment they grow up.