The Pros And Cons Of Prisoners

Most prisoners do not live alone their life. They may stand alone in the box in court and serve their punishment alone, but most prisoners are associated as members of family, kin and friendship networks. While prisoners experience the basic effects of detention and deprivation of liberty, their families live their lives in the fear and trauma of prison. This trauma or dilemmas are casted not only over individuals but also over family as a whole. The partners and children of prisoners experience the effects of imprisonment most acutely during sentence but also often have to cope with the manifold challenges posed by prisoners release and community re-entry. Even when an individual has been released from prison their future job and housing prospects, relationships and social status can be affected by their previous incarceration and the circumstances and lives

However the continued existence of family ties is not to be taken for granted as it plays the most important role in his life for the further indulgence to re-enter the society. Imprisonment by its very nature challenges relationships between prisoners, family and kin, friends and other members of their communities. Some families sever contact with an inmate, and some inmates sever contact with their families but that does not change the fact that a family member is imprisoned. For example, even if a prisoner’s wife decides to an end the relationship, she cannot return to her previous status of never having been married to a prisoner. Children of imprisoned parents are often described as the forgotten victims of imprisonment. When a mother or father goes to prison, their children are affected, usually adversely. Yet these effects are rarely considered in criminal justice processes, which instead focus on determining individual guilt or innocence and punishing