Rehabilitation or Retribution, Our criminal justice system. Options

[MissHygienic]

Which one should we focus on more in our criminal justice system? Basically, which one would serve as a satisfactory/fitting punishment for prisoners?

[jesusisthebestth...]

Which one should we focus on more in our criminal justice system? Basically, which one would serve as a satisfactory/fitting punishment for prisoners?

Edit: Oops, and if someone can fix the misspelling in my topic title, I'd appreciate it, thanks.

REHABILITATION: Jailtime is supposed to be about rehabilitation. What is the point of jailing someone for committing a crime without rehabilitating them? How are they supposed to survive when they get out? How is the victim's family supposed to feel when this criminal finishes his/her sentence or is paroled? Jail is nothing without rehabilitation. I can't say for sure because my family has never been the victim of any crime (knock on wood), but I would prefer to know that someone has been reformed after they've served a jail sentence because retribution is temporary but rehabilitation lasts a lifetime.

[Kontroll]

REHABILITATION: Jailtime is supposed to be about rehabilitation. What is the point of jailing someone for committing a crime without rehabilitating them? How are they supposed to survive when they get out? How is the victim's family supposed to feel when this criminal finishes his/her sentence or is paroled? Jail is nothing without rehabilitation. I can't say for sure because my family has never been the victim of any crime (knock on wood), but I would prefer to know that someone has been reformed after they've served a jail sentence because retribution is temporary but rehabilitation lasts a lifetime.

Well, if that is the case, why not just get rid of the jail time all together. Jail does not equal rehabilitation. If it were all about rehabilitation we could do it without putting criminals behind bars.

[jesusisthebestth...]

Well, if that is the case, why not just get rid of the jail time all together. Jail does not equal rehabilitation. If it were all about rehabilitation we could do it without putting criminals behind bars.

I honestly believe that if we can rehabilitate criminals without putting them in jails, then we should. Jail is a waste of tax dollars: rehabilitate or kill criminals - one or the other. But don't make me pay tax dollars to house a serial killer or repeat sex offender, and when he/she comes out of jail he/she still kills or wants to rape women. That's a clear waste of my money when there are several other ways in which my money could be spent. Theoretically, the point of jail is to make criminals reflect on their misdoings and want to correct that behavior so they do not return to jail because it's a nasty place that takes away your freedoms- jails not do that therefore they [the jails] have no purpose. But that's just what I think.

[Kontroll]

I honestly believe that if we can rehabilitate criminals without putting them in jails, then we should. Jail is a waste of tax dollars: rehabilitate or kill criminals - one or the other. But don't make me pay tax dollars to house a serial killer or repeat sex offender, and when he/she comes out of jail he/she still kills or wants to rape women. That's a clear waste of my money when there are several other ways in which my money could be spent. Theoretically, the point of jail is to make criminals reflect on their misdoings and want to correct that behavior so they do not return to jail because it's a nasty place that takes away your freedoms- jails not do that therefore they [the jails] have no purpose. But that's just what I think.

I think theoretically you're right. But the thing is that jail consists of criminals. Four brick walls and a ten year sentance doesn't chance the fact that you're still a criminal. You came into this doing wrong, and you're put into an environment that is probably 100% more violent than the one that you came from. Like I always say... You can take the boy outta the hood, but you can't take the hood outta the boy.