The issue I have chosen is whether the prison system should focus more on rehabilitation or punishment and this is a controversial problem currently. The reasons for this debate are important to our society because of the growing rate of people incarcerated and then returning. Some believe that rehabilitation measures will help lower the recidivism rate. Recidivism is the likelihood that a person who has committed a crime will commit another offense. The percentage of prisoners released that return after committing another crime within the period of three years is 68%. Whereas others see that if you do the crime then you deserve to be punished and lose your freedoms. They believe if a person is incarcerated they will have time to reflect on what they have done and not want to be sent back to prison.
