We MUST Keep Repeat Offenders in Jail

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We MUST Keep Repeat Offenders in Jail

Why do killers, rapists, and child molesters go free? A large portion

of early release prisoners commit serious crimes after being released. In fact,

"in a three year follow-up of 108,850 state prisoners released in 1983 from

institutions in 11 states, within three years sixty percent of violent crime

offenders were re-arrested. More than half of those charged with violent crimes

were discharged within two years."(from Truth In Sentencing by James Wooton).

These criminals are sent right back to the streets to cause trouble again. The

laws and justice system has to stick to their guns when it comes to prison terms.

If some person is charged with armed robbery and sentenced to 15 years in

prison, why should they be released in five years or less? We must make

criminals pay for their crimes. If individuals are incarcerated for the full

length of their given sentence, I believe that there will be less repeat

offenders and an overall smaller crime rate.

Some say that if we cut down on prison terms we will save loads of tax

money. There will be less need to build, maintain, and expand existing staff if

there are fewer prisoners. But how much more can we cut these sentences, aren't

they short enough already? The average jail sentence is seven years and eleven

months, but the actual average time served is two years and eleven months. I

think there are better ways to save money. For example, we should cut back on

the funding of foreign governments. We have plenty of our own problems in the

United States that we need to take care of. We should take care of our own

before we try to help others. The money we would save would not affect us

directly either. The money the government would save would not reduce our taxes

or anything like that, they would take the money and invest it in something else

important, like maybe giving themselves a raise. How can you put a price on

your child's safety? When a repeat rapist is released early and rapes your

daughter or sister, how important is that saved government money going to be?

There should be no tolerance for repeat offenders. I agree that

everyone makes mistakes, but you must pay for those mistakes and learn from

those mistakes. When criminals make the same mistakes over and over they should

pay heavily for these repeat crimes. But criminals know that our justice system

is soft, they know they will never serve their full sentence, if any at all.

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