| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Society"],"appCategory":"Society","appTitle":"Do prisoners actually deserve a second chance in the society?","appBody":"<p>Yes! In my opinion of course prisoners--most of them anyway--deserve a second chance. First I'll start by saying that I understand some criminals are hardened and are hundred-percent cold hearted. Yes some are too far gone and they are beyond saving. But this is in no way true for ALL prisoners. In fact I would like to belief that we are all humans and we would all love to be given the benefit of the doubt at least twice before we are discarded as useless.</p><p>I started by saying that because most of my argument that follows operates on this assumption, and it is expedient for me to clarify now that I make these argument not on behalf of those group that are irredeemable, but on the other group, the one for which there is still hope.</p><p>Now for this class, their reasons for incarceration in the first place might be a mistake. It is not far fetched to think so, of course, given the state of the human heart and our justice system. It is almost too easy to plant a few carefully placed evidence to incriminate somebody. It is also very possible that we have people with influence and affluence framing people or roping them into taking the fall for them.</p><p>Plus in this system the people with influence can very well hire a good lawyer and pretty much get away with anything--even murder! While the innocent without a good lawyer will suffer and spend half his or her life in prison. Also some people are in prison for nothing but SELF DEFENCE, which, of course, can happen to anybody. You can find yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you have the ability to defend yourself. Will you not do it? And if it happens to be against some spoilt rich brat whose parents just happened to have enough money to convince the judge that you are the perpetrator, and you find yourself in prison, wouldn't you like the world to give you the benefit of the doubt? And then when--or if--they finally make it out of prison, shouldn't these kind of people be given a second chance? </p><p>Of course they should! </p><p>But no. The way our system is set up makes us look down on people that have been known to be inmates at one point to another in their life. Society scorns them, doesn't give them a chance, and even makes life harder for them when they get out. Which is another reason why you can see criminals becoming recidivists--that is people who keep repeating the same crime-- because the system is already AGAINST them!</p><p>Imagine a criminal getting out of prison unable to find a job, coming back to his starving family, unable to feed them, and everybody scorns him here and there, looking down on him. What do we expect that kind of person to do but to revert back to his life of crime! It is almost too easy; in fact it is as if the system wants them to go back in there. Which is absolutely not right in my opinion.</p><p>Not all prisoners are hopeless murderers, and rapists who commits crime for fun. But we all seem to have decided tjat they are. Forgetting that all prisoners have their own stories to tell as to why and hiw they found themselves in there.</p><p>Another important argument for giving prisoners a second chance is the very fact of the prison itself. It is supposed to be a \"reformatory\" organisation a \"rehabilation\" center, a \"peniteniatry\" where people are to be sent to become \"penitent\" and reformed and rehabilitated.</p><p>If the system really was right then the main aim of sending people to prison wouldn't be JUST to punish them; but to REFORM them. But sadly the system now is more concerned about locking people up than making sure they become better versions of themselves, even though with the right element in place most people are willing to do just that. But no, all we want is for them to become even worse animals. So who really is to blame?</p><p>So you see that most prisoners really do deserve a second chance and most times even when they fall short it is not entirely *their* fault but mostly the system failing them in a way. </p><p>If all these aforementioned measures would be put in place-- that is giving them a correct rehabilitation system and environment whose main purpose is not just to lock them away but to reform them, destigmatizing them from the scorn of society, making life easier for them after they're out, and also providing a good trial and judicial system in general, you will see that the world would indeed be a safer place and the amount of ex-convicts who reverts to their previous lives of crime would be drastically reduced! </p><p>I hope I've been able to successfully convince you that prisoners do deserve a second chance. Cheers.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkc3v99d5","appParentAuthor":"abisola12","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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