The alternative is locking them up and creating lifetime criminals. We need to separate criminals and give them new communities to find worth in for the most p

The alternative is locking them up and creating lifetime criminals. We need to separate criminals and give them new communities to find worth in for the most part. Most people don't commit crimes because they want to. If you can separate them from the criminal element, find worth and independence, that is the solution. I think putting them up with other criminals is like a crime university, it will be all they know. Prison is supposed to be rehabilitation but it creates hardened criminal elements. Your better system is taking people and locking them up together and then charging the tax payer 30k per annum, even if they pay no fines they are still causing less budget. There aren't any easy solutions but that is mostly wrong for non-violent and low level offenses like drug crimes. This Norway prison has prisoners work on a farm/island as an example of a new community. [1] It has some of the lowest recidivism in the world. Sometimes people in poverty have never been treated like humans, maybe if you apply this to them then certainly a percentage would see worth. The other harsher ways are creating more re-offenders in the US system (the main problem of this article). [1] http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bastoy-nicest/ http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bas...