Shorter or Longer Sentence?

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People who break the law should be imprisoned to accept their punishment. Here comes a question how long shall they be imprisoned? Whether it should be long or short? What if after a long prison time,prisoners don’t repent and meanwhile the government has to pay a lot for them.We think the short sentence is better and maybe we can review these questions in ways as follows.

There are many reasons supporting that shorter sentences are better than longer sentences. Firstly, some people who were put into prison could commit a crime just because of impulsion. According to a recent research on China Daily says that about 57% of criminal who were investigated are under twenty years old. And only 10% of them of education are higher than primary school. It means that the cause of their crime are not only from themselves but also from the situation of their family, the development of economics and the degree of the society. Perhaps they commit a crime just because of curiosity, the lack of education. Shorter sentences can give them a chance to turn over a new page . After the sentences, they can get more education. So the motivation should be an important standard to judge a crime.
Secondly, I think a shorter sentence can give people more hope to donate to our society. Most of people in prison are young. They have ability to build up our society. It will be better if we regard them as labor force (Of course after they are willing to correct their faults from their heart). I believe that everyone is kind when they are born. The punishment of long or short is not important. The most important thing is to change the mind of a person.

Why shorter sentence is better than longer sentence? One of the reasons can be related to mon...

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...his family with so long time.

In conclusion,although the long sentence can reflect the intention of punishing criminals, we have four reasons to reject long sentence. Paying attention to the intention of criming, wasting ability of building up our country, wasting money of tax payer and destroying humanity prove it strongly. Reasons mentioned above let us know the bad impacts to their family and development of the society.At the meantime we figure out some other ways to replace long sentence,which can benefit the world and achieve the situation of win-win. For example, we can give better and longer education to change their thought to achieve a longer chance.This measure could not only affect a generation, but their children and even relatives.We think it more meaningful than a long sentence. Therefore,we think shorter sentence is better than longer sentence.

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