Criminal Justice | Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates

Charles Wampler is a prisoner at the Chillicothe Correctional Institute in Ohio. In the following viewpoint, Wampler contends that prisons should rehabilitate inmates by offering mandatory self-improvement classes, education, counseling, and vocational training for prisoners. He argues that requiring self-improvement classes benefits both the prisoner and society because, once released, these prisoners are more likely to find jobs and are less likely to commit crimes and return to prison. Wampler asserts that society and inmates would be better off if inmates served a shorter sentence...

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