Imprisonment - Social Issues

Most people may think of prisons as nothing more than facilities where criminals are incarcerated of their freedoms while serving a sentence for a crime. While this is true the idea of imprisonment is also intended to rehabilitate the prisoners. One of the positive effect of incarceration is the idea of rehabilitation through imprisonment is that a person who has been incarcerated will never want to be sent back to prison after they have been set free. It is hoped that an inmate’s experiences while locked up will leave such a lasting impression that a former prisoner will do whatever it takes to avoid a second term.

According to Crime Museum “by offering better rehabilitative services to the inmates, many prisons have begun providing psychiatrists to help deal with prisoners’ mental disorders and psychological issues.” I believe they the Prisons also offer classroom settings in which inmates can learn to read and educate themselves. These are proven to have a positive effect on the prisoners and have helped many to overcome a background with no education.

When a person goes to jail, everyone around him can suffer from the experience. Not only does it put his life on hold for the term of his sentence, it also changes his life outside of the prison. This is not always for the better. Instead of learning a lesson, it actually presents more problems that need to be addressed with his loved ones, friends, society at large and himself. For example his parents will react in different ways when he is out, from feeling that they are somehow to blame that a child of theirs went down the wrong road. The same goes for any extended family members that were close the person before he went to prison.