Brenda Granados
Writing workshop 7/8
10/26/10
Convicted Criminals should receive an Education….
Ulf Frolander, Monica, and Michael Yates state, "If prisons were places for people who have committed serious crimes that were sent to pay a debt to society, and to be rehabilitated to return to society as healthy members of it, then the prisoners would be provided with and expected to make use of training and education”(114-127). This quote states that if prisoners were sent to prison for committing a serious crime then they should be able to receive an education and training classes so they can be rehabilitate and return to society as healthy members when release. I get that the traditional punishment for criminals is to put them in jail for a period of time for committing a crime so they can serve their time but I think that for that period of the time that they waste in prison they should just get some rehabilitation courses and receive an education instead of them not doing anything that benefits them. So, why not rather spend that time on taking rehabilitations classes that can help them rehabilitate and return to society clean and healthy.
I think we should give the criminals another chance to mend their ways, offer them some moral education or skill training, which could be thorough a strategy where they can lead the criminals to the right track sense time is so short for everyone and so we make a good use of every second, even for a person who had made some mistakes. I agree with Colette Stenson because he said that “criminals should receive a second chance in prison to receive an education so they can change and never return back to prison” (1). I totally feel strong about giving a second chance of education to criminals, instead of letting them stay in prison and do nothing. Also, why not let them lean to something skillfully which can benefit themselves and be favorable to the whole society.
In addition, putting the people in prison too long could make them feel despair to the world and cultivate the negative view of their life. Yet, it is meaningless to let them back to society after they complete a term of imprisonment. The government should conduct the criminals from the positive ways by using education so they can rehabilitate, which helps them reduce the number of offenders who return to jail after unable to adapt to a life outside and being a healthy member out of jail and the more they receive rehabilitation classes the more they are going to learn to not commit a crime because they already know the consequences if they commit a crime again. Also the Criminal rehabilitation can help solve the problem of overcrowding in most prisons sense there’s already a lot in prison today. According to Chia Moses, “Education is one of the ways in which it can help those criminals to never return to jail: it appears that their time in incarceration was spent productively, changing some vital aspect of their personality and that education should be offered in prison to allow the prisoners to upgrade and stay relevant to the changing society outside the prison walls” (1). I feel so strong about what Chia Moses stated because I think that criminals should get the opportunity to receive an education in prison so they can change their personality and never return to jail, but instead on giving a focus on a good job and a healthy life so they adapt back to society and never return to the negative path.
Although, the criminals should pay for their mistake and they deserve to receive the punishments. Even though my way of thinking is, offering the criminal some education and job training instead of putting them in jail is the most thorough, efficient and positive path to guide them back to our society. According to Pat Wingert “Criminals should pay and receive a punishment and not receive a second chance of education for committing a crime” (1). I say this because in many states like in California the community is doing more for the criminals then for the people that benefit the community. I defitnetly think this is wrong because criminals just brings more problems to the community so why helping them. Even in many states they tend to waste their money in criminals and bad people that only destroy the community and get it unprotected, dirty. This is wrong that the states are spending too much money on unsafely people that only get our community dirtier and destructed than those who are actually putting hard work in our community to keep it clean and constructing more useful things that people can use and benefit from.
I believe that Convicted Criminals should receive an education while at prison even thought prison is for criminals to receive a punishment. I suggest that criminals should get a second chance of education .Although, I get that they have convicted a serious crime and that they have to receive a punishment so they can serve their time but not necessary by receiving a punishment they will learn from their mistakes because its most likely that they will not learn anything from their punishment and so they will continue convicting crimes. So I think that Education it’s the only way criminals will rehabilitate and change to return to society as healthy criminals, so why not just give them a second opportunity for them to receive an education?
Work Cited
Moses Chia, "Criminal Rehabilitation – Working Towards A Better Life For Inmates And Their Families"
Shrinking the Prison Population: [Editorial]. ”New York Times 11 May 2009, Late Edition (East Coast): New York Times, ProQuest. Web. 14 Oct.
2010.
Frolander-Ulf, Monica, and Michael Yates. "Teaching in Prison." Monthly Review. July/Aug. 2001: 114-127. SIRS Researcher. Web. 07 Oct 2010.
Pat Wingert “Classrooms or Prison Cells?” News Week June 28, 2010http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/28/classrooms-or-prison-cells.html
Collete Stenson, URL:http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Criminal-Rehabilitation-A-Second-Chance/1034202
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