Does making prisoners work (number plates,furnishing, etc) actually reduce crime re offending?
megan.jones_march1990 asked:
and giving them a basic living environment like without TV and air con in prison? what happens if they hate prison?
and giving them a basic living environment like without TV and air con in prison? what happens if they hate prison?
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First, we need to clear up a few things. Prisoners are not forced to work. Working in prison is optional. You can receive credits to reduce your sentence by working, and some jobs come with a pay number that gives you a small amount of money each month that you can use to buy things with at the prison store, but it’s up to you as to whether or not you wish to work. Working in prison accomplishes two things: It reduces costs by using inmate labor, and it gives the inmate something to do.
That basic living environment for inmates usually does include air conditioning and TV, although the air conditioning is not controlled by the inmates. It’s controlled by the staff. The TV is in the common dayroom area and the channels are chosen by the inmates collectively.
What happens if you deprive the inmates of too much and they really start to hate it in there? Attica was a good example of that. Inmates who have nothing to lose tend to fight back, just like any other group of people who are deprived past their breaking point. By giving inmates a certain number of privileges, you greatly reduce the risk of a riot, and you are able to use the threat of removing those things to further control the population. Remember when you were a kid and got sent to your room with no TV? It turns out that making inmates spend a week with no TV and no yard privileges works the same way. whitefangz1
if it helps the prisoners obtain suitable employment when they leave jail why not as it will help reduce the chances of them re-offending and returning to jail at a great expense to the honest tax payer, not all prisoner’s are eligible for this type of program
the cost of keeping people in jail in NSW Australia is around $50000 plus per year
if they hate prison dont commit crime I Live In Paradise
Figures show that imprisonment generally actually increases crime rates. Think about this: the courts put someone in prison - they come out with a record, no job, no nothing. What are they going to do? Well, many of them are going to live a life of crime, since they have no choice.
The other adverse aspect of imprisonment is that people resent it, and they actually learn the ropes of criminality while in prison. A person wrongfully convicted and imprisoned can often be so resentful that he/she will feel entitled to learn to be a real criminal. So if the prisoner was originally in for something soft, like marijuana possession (do they still put people in jail for that?), chances are that he/she will learn, while in prison, all about car theft, breaking into homes, drug dealing, etc, as well as running the chance of picking up a hard drug habit.
See where we’re heading here?
Having prisoners work is actually fairly meaningless in terms of punishment - it actually gives them something to do to while away the time, and also provides them with a miniscule income, with which they can buy tobacco or food or whatever.
Anyone who believes the media stories about air conditioned prisons is a fool - the only places that are air conditioned are those areas which have no or inadequate contact with the outside environment, like solitary, and which therefore need to be air conditioned. As for TV etc, unless there is a general area TV available for limited times of the day, prisoners can buy their own TV. They do so as a privilege for good behaviour, and such privileges can be taken away, but the fact remains that the TV or whatever is their own property - the privilege is being able to use it as they see fit. The Grappler
The only crime it reduces is crime in prison, less violence and less stealing from other people for the items they desire from the store.~ INSOMNIAC