Should The Justice System Should Focus On Rehabilitation

Should the Justice system focus more on rehabilitation or punishing criminals?

As a criminal life would be hard considering all the mistakes they’ve made to get into prison, then as a prisoner they have the chance Since 2016, 46 people have been executed. That isn’t needed if criminals could be helped and rehabilitated in the prison before re-entering the community. For that reason, our Justice system should focus on rehabilitating criminals instead of executing them.

To start off, a lot more freedom could be useful for prisoners, the use of telephones and having jobs have really helped prisoners prepare for the transition into a normal community. In Norway it had a 30% non-reoffending figures in Europe and half the rate in the United Kingdom. Prisoners in the Norwegian prison can still call family and friends and the large building can be used for family visits. Prisoners can serve their time up to 21-years since there is no death penalty or life sentence in Norway. As the prison has offered different programs for education, training, and skill-building programs.

Not to mention, some rehabilitation actually does help a prisoner when 15-20 percent are mentally ill.

Around 44,460 prisoners would be considered mentally ill in the U.S. in 2013. For an example a psychologist could develop special programs to help with substance abuse or to help prisoners prepare before re-entering the community. Some rehabilitation services have been proven useful for prisoners without serious mental illnesses. Research has shown that most prisoners in supermax prisons experience more extreme levels of anxiety and negative emotions. So in the last five to ten years supermax prisons have gotten more ommen and is still increasing as time goes

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In spite of many could disagree and say that they shouldn’t be allowed to have so much freedom as criminals Some could also make the point of it would cost way to much. In the Norwegian prison an average amount spent per year on one prisoner is £40,000 which in U.S. currency it would be $5,049.60. On the contrary, everything to be rehabilitated has to do with the behavior and the environment of the prisoner. The Norway prisoners have learned how to function in a community as a whole. They make their own money in jobs inside the prison. Many reasons why it’s hard to rehabilitate criminals is because of the jail they are in causing them to have severe negative thoughts and anxiety. In the end should it really matter the surrounding of the criminal if they can’t hurt anybody else?
Furthermore, working could help prisoners rehabilitate to re-enter the community. At a prison in Norway, prisoners learn to work in a community with local jobs that help them earn money. Living life how it would be in a normal community expect the fact there is guards and no women. Jobs that are available are doing the laundry, working in the stables, bicycle repair shop, ground maintenance, or in the timber workshop. Each man can earn up to £6 a day which is 76¢ in American currency. The men also get a food allowance up to £70 which is equal to $8.84 in American currency. This is all to get the prisoners to living a normal life without the crime.
Therefore, If criminals are learning to come back into the community as a non-harmful person, should it matter how they are treated to get to be a better person from when they went into prison? Our protection service could “re-catch” the criminal also if they decided to be dangerous again. Many people have learned from their mistakes with the freedom they receive inside the prison. Most prisons have learned that rehabilitation isn’t a waste of time and can really help individuals, working as a community with small tasks and jobs also help one's preparation back into the real world.