Do prisons teach people to become worse criminals? Many people think that a prisoner is taught how to be a better criminal while in prison. Prisoners are integrated with people that have committed worse crimes than the ones that they have committed. The bigger and better criminals teach the others what they need to learn to survive prison life. There are many other aspects of prison that can make a prisoner worse than when he …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…everything is free, and it’s an easy life. Therefore, I don’t believe that putting more people in prison for more and more crimes is the answer. Prisons don’t deter people from committing crimes, they only teach them better crimes. Bibliography http://www.mcc.org/ http://www.sentencingproject.org/ http://www.esva.net/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ http://www.ncjrs.org/homepage.htm http://www.corrections.com/