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What is the objective of prisons?
is it for prisoners to suffer and reflect on what they've done or to keep them apart from society?
4 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
To make them worst that when they went in, so to insure that they will do a crime immediately upon release, so they can put them back in there, and put fear into the tax-payer so he will continue paying taxes so they will maintain the upkeep of the inmate, when only a fraction is spent on him, and the rest is pocketed by those who have stock in the Criminal Justice System.
It's called the Criminal Justice System, because it benefits justice to the real crooks running the operation.
If you violate the law do they punish you or do they make you pay a huge fine in fear of going to jail, where big black bubba can assrape you into paying the SOBs so you won't go thru the experience again. Or you can fight the sodomites and get more time on your punishment for fighting. It's pure goddamn bullshit, it's designed to make money off of the poor and weak, whereas if you're a richFuck you can get away with anything.
- George SLv 79 years ago
Both. Initially prisons were just to punish and isolate. Quaker and Mennonite influence in Pennsylvania, USA, created a "penitentiary" form copied around the world. It was intended for inexpensive means to force penitence from prisoners.
It was an octopus looking building with a center lobby for guards to see down the "legs" of the building containing the cells. With a few guard towers on the outside and guards in the lobby the prisoners could be held with minimum staff. Each cell had only bare essentials and a bible like contemplative monk cells.
Source(s): For decades I studied philosophies, cultures, and social institutions. I began that because of confusion resulting from my military experience under the shadow of neo-Marxist anti-military and anti-capitalism indoctrination in the universities. I continue a forty year quest wading through the huge pile of stinking crap a wide variety of bigots piled on top of truth hiding it from nearly everyone's view. The pile was made by blaming people they don't like while excusing people they do like regardless of where the fault really lies. - 9 years ago
Quite the contrary to make them 'suffer' actually; The aim of prisons is to rehabilitate its inmates in order to turn them into a productive member of society upon their release. Most western prisons teach their inmates new trades, basic education (such as mathematics and English) and other qualities useful in the working world.
Of course, prison is also a punishment, and the inmates are there to pay their debt to society. however they are not supposed to be physically punished or made to suffer, as this would be a conflict of basic human rights, which any member of the United Nations must adhere to.
However, in summary; the basic aim of prison is to rehabilitate prisoners and transform them into productive members of society. Whether this works or not, remains to be seen.
