What is the main purpose of prison

What is the master(prenominal) conception of prison BY assists What is the main intent of prisons? Although the human cabaret is marching on all the time, a variety of crimes such as cheat, steal and even more monstrous kidnapping, rape and murder keep happening around us unavoidably. In order to maintain the stability of our countries and punish those people who commit crimes, prisons appear. That is the simplest modestness for prison establishing, and in this article I will analyze the purpose of prisons deeply.Generally speaking, despite the punishment fermention, known as retribution, the purpose of prisons can be divided into a nonher 3 categories. Firstly, incapacitation, it can be expressed as isolating the criminals and depriving their freedom by locking them in a inviolate place. Secondly, for people who intend to commit crime but have not broken the laws, prisons are deterrence to some extent. In another word, prisons act as a warning in peoples mind to prevent for thcoming crimes.Finally, replenishment means that the prisons have the responsibility to develop prisoners abilities and integrate them into society by and by releasing. Those activities may include but not limited in launching educational courses, teaching Job skills, informing current news program s well as providing psychotherapy by professional staffs. However, after explaining the functions of prisons thoroughly, there comes a new problem for us, what should be the main purpose of prisons rehabilitation (positive side) or punishment/societal protection (negative side)?In my opinion, it depends on the crime behavior and the intent behind the crime. If it is not a terrible crime such as driving after drinking a bottle of beer, then absolutely yes, this person should be forgiven. And in this case, rehabilitation is the main purpose of prison to get him off of the wrong behavior. and then, if someone commit violate criminals such as murder or rape, the purpose of prison will change to the negative side and almost of ordinary people will agree with locking him and punishing him with no hesitation.In this case, it is not necessary to give him another opportunity and the prisons duty is wholly isolating the prisoner and taking away all the luxury things so that rehabilitation is not that important. In appendix, if someone commits crime due to addition and has psychological problems, then rehabilitation should be put as priority, because punishment is useless for reforming addicts.