The Importance Of Prison Life

In the United States of America today, prison life is becoming worse as the years pass by. Offenders are steady re committing crimes even after initial release from prison. This has become a huge problem for the government of The United States of America and all of it’s residents. We must take different approaches to the way we imprison our inmates so that after their sentence is done, they are less likely to become a repeat offender. Different countries around the world, like China and the Phillipines, use different tactics to make sure that their prisoners are less likely to return. The Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm is one of the world 's biggest outside jails. Unlike most prisons, The Iwahig Prison is surrounded only by a huge wire fence.

The only punishment that these prisoners suffered is their loss of freedom and liberty. Prisoners lived in small pod like communities with cells that had televisions, computers, integral sanitation and sanitation. Inmates were offered an education, training as well as skill-building programs. Living conditions on the island has little differences from living a regular life in Norway. Many different jobs and workplaces are offered at the Bastoy prison island. A farm, like the Iwahig Prison, is one workplace that inmates may work. At the farm prisoners tend sheep, cows and chickens or grow their own fruit and vegetables. Other options of work include the bicycle repair shop where prisoners fix their own bicycles or ground maintenance where prisoners keep the prison grounds neat and clean. Prisoners earn their own money and are given the option of spending it how they please on the

Wilbert Rideau, editor of the Angolite, says that crime control in the beginning is one logical reason why prisons do not work in the United States. “The only effective way to curb crime is for society to work to prevent the criminal act in the first place, to come between the perpetrator and crime” (Rideau 189). Another reason Rideau says that prisons do not work is the lack of rehabilitation while incarcerated. Rideau suggest that if prisons in the United States took more action to rehabilitate, like Bastoy prison island, then offenders are more likely to change when they are