Shouldn’t Criminals Be Rehabilitated Mentally and Psychologically in Jails and Detentions Centers?
Question by Ashley: Shouldn’t criminals be rehabilitated mentally and psychologically in jails and detentions centers?
Not ‘punished’?
We all know punishment doesn’t solve anything. 9 times out of 10 it’ll just make these criminals more hateful, and likely to do worse.
Common sense.
Teddy, that’s terrible. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
That just sparks up more spite into them, which’ll lead to more trouble, which’ll lead to endless crime in America.
Best answer:
Answer by Teddy
Punishment can work. We just don’t do it right. If you cut off a thief’s hand, they will not steal a second time.
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Sure, as should many homeless people. Who the heck’s going to fund all that? Medical care is not cheap and it’s getting more expensive by the day it seems. I know, I know, in the long run it would probably be cheaper to teach skills, treat mental illness, etc. but initially it’s more expensive.
Start off with drug treatment, you know how many addicts and people that are in prison for drug offenses, total waste of tax payer money. Locking someone up for getting high is about as lame as it gets.
Rehabilitation does occur in many prisons for convicts whom it seems likely to work with. Most research shows that rehabilitation programs on hardened criminals has nearly no effect. The fact if that very few criminals are good fits for these programs. Most people who are in prison have committed many crimes before having been caught. Most have no interest in rehab. They want to get out and back to banging… Most are criminals because that’s the only place they fit in.
rehabilitation doesn’t work either and is hardly a deterrent. what jail will do is deter those that haven’t crossed the line yet. as far as the ones that have, we simply remove them from society for as long as is possible. nothing will change them except for the armed citizen.
When people are wronged, they seem to want revenge. Whether this is a natural emotion or a social construct is kind of irrelevant. Most importantly, though, revenge hurts the individual as much as the person they are targeting. Getting pleasure from hurting others corrupts your innate nature – a nature that doesn’t like to see fellow humans getting harmed. This argument is debatable, but that is how it goes.
It would certainly be more beneficial to rehabilitate criminals rather than put them in jails. However, they certainly need to be kept away from society. Keep in mind, though, that we can’t exactly justify spending all our tax money on high priced psychological treatments for prisoners. However, we can still utilize current resources better.
Just treat the prisoners as best you financially can while using them to produce labor that somewhat offsets the cost of their upkeep. Honestly, though, prisoners could easily produce enough of a given item to earn their keep. Whether we utilize their man power sufficiently to do this remains unknown to me.