Some people think that prison sentences should not be used in dealing with criminals. Education and job training should be used instead. To what extend do you agree on disagree?

A small portion of society believes that alternative penalties, such as professional training or community work, other prison sentences, to criminals. I with this statement depending on the types.

Sociologists and lawmakers have been alerting the tendency of the prison population increase, in countries such as the US, Brazil and Mexico. In those nations, it is witnessed an unequal proportion of black prisoners when compared to other races, and most of them composed of uneducated young , in their mid-20s. Specialists report that when they dig deeper into the causes that led those to jail, they realize that the majority of the accusations could as a ( alcoholism , small weed possession), and the prison penalty is severe.

, there are those who that no matter the someone commits, if he/she breaks the law, the price jails , and both minor prisoners together with high-level criminals. Experts say, , that this statement brings to light another relevant aspect: the possibility of these small offenders into criminal networks, in where the authorities have less or no control over prisons.

All in all, I believe that updates to our law since the exposure of prisoners to gang leaders or chief of militias may reinforce those organizations. Alternative penalties as an educational solution as their reinsertion into society.