british prisons...not so much harm.
American prisons? Hell, yeah its harmfull! No one wants to be butt F&*%$d by some 40 year old bastard. That kinda scar will last you a life time damnit 🤣

ok alittle more on topic XD

I think working in prison should be a requirement and a must. However all their wages should go to tax and so forth with aditional expensises for actually living in the prison.
Not a bad idea, huh? some labour work, building sites, train tracks...whatever the need. Prisoners could be a very big working force in my opinion. Think about the work a couple of prisons houses could acplish in 5 years? Plus it'll stop the idea of people wanting a "free" meal and bed.

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Prisons are doing more "harm" than "good". I mean, prisons are supposed to be an environment where people go when they have done something wrong. I almost think that prisoners are being treated too well in some places. It should not be a place that anyone wants to go back to. We should have better developed rehabilitation facilities for that purpose. Prisons should not be comfortable. I do not believe that anyone in them deserves to be hurt/raped/killed by fellow inmates at all, but they should not be able to make money, etc. in prison. It causes many people to become reliant on the support provided instead of providing for themselves.

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In Guantanamo bay, the prisoners get full health care coverage. Shows how much the US values their prisoners over their own people.

But in all seriousness, prison is like a school, it standardizes the education level of the people that enter it. In a school, kids graduate from elementary school with a set skills in mathematics, english, et-cetera. Prison is no different, except in this case, prisoners leave the prison with a new set of skills to commit crimes with. There has been numerous cases about prisoners that commit petty crimes and come out of prison committing larger crimes. A young man went to jail for rape, and when he got out he ended up teaming up with another convict and they ended up killing a family. When you pit so many people of crime in one place, they're going to share stories of what they did, why they're there, and in prison it is something that is glamorized not shunned upon. when they leave, they leave with new ideas and less humanity. Prisons aren't correctional institutions because they don't "correct" anything.

On the other hand, prisons are a huge financial burden on the government. In Canada (it was recently a big issue), prisoners were collecting unemployment welfare, old age pension, and various other benefits while staying in jail. One of Canada's greatest killers who slaughtered (25?) women was making $9,000 a month in pensions? (possibly more). That's excluding the money he earned from selling his murder paraphernalia that the cops didn't find. In a Ottawa Sun article about it, he stated "yes, I'm here for life, and the government is giving me free money. No, I won't give the money back, I'd rather keep the money locked away in a bank than give it back to them". No chance of parole, nothing to do with the money except give it to his relatives, yet he makes more than I do.

Honestly, at this point, prisons are nothing but a cesspool of excess and waste, and the products created here only continue to pollute more and more. If you really want to call a prison a correctional institute, than start doing some correcting and try to civilize these convicts.

9000 a month? Are you kiding?
Thats heavy, my whole family does not earn that much money in a year. Life sucks, earnest people suffer and scum like that rewarded like this.

umm...probably more harm. seeing all the gangs, rape and etc happening inside there.
Most prisoners need "help", but not all will change their ways even if they do get help.
but I'm afraid if prisons were to treat prisoners more 'harshly' it might turn out like the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot...which is not a pretty thing

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