I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. When it comes to treating prisoners, I think we all have different opinions on how they should be treated, different opinions on what they deserve and don't deserve, and different opinions on what they should get and not get. Trust me, there are people who think every prisoner is a criminal and deserves no second chance at all, but all of that is very wrong because some people are in prison for crimes they did not commit; some people were framed, and since they don't have the finances and tools to dig and prove their innocence, they just have to serve a term for a crime they did not commit.
We all have seen in movies how people get framed for the things they did not do, and since all evidence points to them having done it, nobody will even want to hear their side of the story, and everybody will just want them thrown into prison as soon as possible so they can get what they deserve. The truth is that these things don't only happen in movies or series; this is the reality of many prisoners, and until proven otherwise, everybody sees them as evil and prays that the evil they must have been framed for befalls them too or even worse.
Some people think prison is not even enough punishment for prisoners; some people think prisoners should just get wiped out of the face of the earth and not be allowed to breathe the same air as free citizens; some support that they are taken to prison and hope that the prison serves as a rehabilitation center, and when it is time for them to walk as free citizens again, they will come out better people, stay away from crimes, and better still fight them if possible. The prison is supposed to help them become better people and not break them instead, but in most cases the prison experience breaks the prisoner rather than help them.
If you have visited the prison before, you will come to realize that those in prison need all the help they can get so the prison will do that which it is supposed to do in their lives and not the opposite. Most prisons are overcrowded; a prison structure built for 200 prisoners automatically becomes home for over a thousand prisoners, and now it is impossible for supplies to go round: not food, not water, not air, and not even the medical supplies. This overpopulation gives room for different diseases, sicknesses, and infections to strike because the toilet is used by a lot of people, and if not properly cleaned and disinfected, then trust me, a disease breakout is imminent.
These prisoners need as much welfare support as they can get; they even need way more than they might end up getting, and providing them with just enough welfare is one thing that can help make the prison a kind of rehabilitation center it is supposed to be and not what breaks them. Some people might frown at prisoners getting supplies; some might even say taxpayers' money is being used to take care of criminals too, but the truth is that they were also taxpayers at some point, and not every prisoner is going to be locked up forever, so some of them will definitely become taxpayers again, so depriving them of welfare because they are not taxpayers at the moment is not even reason enough.
Prisoners deserve all the support they can get. Help them see that the path they chose is a wrong path by supporting them in the little way you can, and maybe we will get to enjoy a better society with little or less crime.
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