punishment for petty crimes
Type of essay: Text based
Text used: “Her Majesty’s Prison” by Christian Pratt
Stripped, probed, re-dressed and endowed with the status of convict.” Is this what you would want to endure for a simple traffic violation of no seat belt, running a red light or dark tinted windows? Or would you prefer a traffic school session or two, picking up garbage on a Saturday morning or paying a fine? I would gladly prefer the latter. The prison has a “revolving door” as if welcoming persons to come again. We need to replace this door with job services and opportunities and quality rehabilitation. A prison term is not the answer to petty crimes in our Bahamian society. The jail house is already surpassed its max capacity, take away persons there for traffic violations, littering, marijuana possession, shoplifting or other petty offences and you have saved the Bahamian government and tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses per year. In the text “Her Majesty’s Prison” Christian Pratt explores the need for more rehabilitation and reform, instead of allowing persons to take up residency at the Fox Hill prison without preparation for re-entering society. He also talks about the overcrowding of the prison and the conditions which inmates no matter the crime are subjected to. Christian also goes on to explain why we should not just lock them up and throw away the key, stating that it would be a loss of human capital- education and skills that could be put to use somehow, after all we are the ones paying the debt. It is my belief that only persons convicted of serious crimes should be incarcerated because of the potential to save tax dollars, the ability for proper rehabilitation of a smaller prison population and lessoning the strain on the justice system to process cases of trivial matters.
Hundreds of thousands of government tax dollars can be saved if non - serious offenders are removed from prison. The prison system affects the lives of numerous Bahamians
Text used: “Her Majesty’s Prison” by Christian Pratt
Stripped, probed, re-dressed and endowed with the status of convict.” Is this what you would want to endure for a simple traffic violation of no seat belt, running a red light or dark tinted windows? Or would you prefer a traffic school session or two, picking up garbage on a Saturday morning or paying a fine? I would gladly prefer the latter. The prison has a “revolving door” as if welcoming persons to come again. We need to replace this door with job services and opportunities and quality rehabilitation. A prison term is not the answer to petty crimes in our Bahamian society. The jail house is already surpassed its max capacity, take away persons there for traffic violations, littering, marijuana possession, shoplifting or other petty offences and you have saved the Bahamian government and tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses per year. In the text “Her Majesty’s Prison” Christian Pratt explores the need for more rehabilitation and reform, instead of allowing persons to take up residency at the Fox Hill prison without preparation for re-entering society. He also talks about the overcrowding of the prison and the conditions which inmates no matter the crime are subjected to. Christian also goes on to explain why we should not just lock them up and throw away the key, stating that it would be a loss of human capital- education and skills that could be put to use somehow, after all we are the ones paying the debt. It is my belief that only persons convicted of serious crimes should be incarcerated because of the potential to save tax dollars, the ability for proper rehabilitation of a smaller prison population and lessoning the strain on the justice system to process cases of trivial matters.
Hundreds of thousands of government tax dollars can be saved if non - serious offenders are removed from prison. The prison system affects the lives of numerous Bahamians