What is the Best Alternative to Prison
Title: What is the Best Alternative to Prison
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 428 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is the Best Alternative to Prison
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 428 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
³The U.S. prison population has tripled since 1980 so that on any given day there are 1.5 million Americans behind bars.² (Alternatives 1). There is a clear overcrowding problem in todays prisons. Why? I believe that the population explosion in the prison system is due to the increasing moral decline of America. Prisons should keep dangerous criminals off the streets and keep others from committing a crime. (Prisons 1) One would think that being locked up is to
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I believe that the punishment should fit the crime. If a man beats his wife to death, he in turn should be beaten to death.
My solution to the prison problem is a simple yet harsh one. An eye for an eye.
By the way, what ever happened to cutting your hand off for stealing?
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Works Cited
³Alternatives to Prison.² 2 Feb. 2000.
Browne, Julie. ³The Labor of Doing Time.² 2 Feb. 2000.
³Prisons Do Not Work.² 2 Feb. 2000.
