REHABILITATION PAPER

Rehabilitation paper

Rehabilitation paper

Prisoner Rehabilitation

The rising inmate population and overcrowding in prisons is a problem. A lot of this problem comes from repeat offenders who have had a lack of prison rehabilitation.

People have two different views about the prison system. The first is that prisons are "jails" and that everyone in the "jails" should suffer for their crimes. They feel since they are criminals and do not abide by the rules of society they should not be able to become part of a society.

Others view prisons as correctional facilities where prisoners can accept their mistakes and be rehabilitated, eventually being assimilated. (Worth 1995)

Prison Rehabilitation is mostly the experience of prison itself where you go in to a place that makes you live around criminals and never get out of the criminal mind state and never can grow to realize your mistakes and move on in your life. Towards the end of your sentence there is usually no help to integrate back into society at all, which is the most critical time for help.

It seems to me that during the last years of a prisoner who has a good prison record's sentence they should be eligible to enroll in correctional prisons that weren't required to be paroled but provided a alternative to "jail" and provided you with not only more freedoms than jail but an opportunity to make it a smaller step into the real world than coming right from jail. (Halperin 2000)

This correctional facility sole purpose would be to rehabilitate while still providing similar jail atmosphere. It would be mandatory to take high school or college classes or be trained in certain vocational areas where your grades would determine eligibility. Along with these classes there would be a series of other classes that would integrate you back with society. This would be totally up to the prisoner to maintain and get the most out of this because that is what you have to do to succeed and be rehabilitated.

People have two different views about the prison system. The first group says that the rehabilitation process is no use exceptionally for the "criminally insane

The other group filled with positive-thinkers in the society has another view: They believe that the prisoners can rehabilitate, saying that everybody makes mistakes and that's what the prison is for, to rehabilitate. They say that after they learn their mistakes they will eventually assimilate and become one once again with society.

I feel that the "jails" are for criminals such as rapists, murderers and other criminals that clearly will never be able to accept the rules society and show no hope of being rehabilitated. They may suffer from the strain theory, a bad childhood, whatever the reason is, these guys belong in jail.

On the other hand I feel that some criminals (white-collar) see the light of their mistakes while they are incarcerated. They get to thinking, missing their families/friends, and see the truth, that nothing not even money (as involved in larceny) is worth the ...