The purpose of justice is keep
people safe, punish law breakers, compensate victims, and lastly, it
should make things as best as possible, as they were before. Anything
short of these things, is not justice. Thus is why, society is as it
is.
One of the greatest problems
with any justice system, besides being slow, corrupt, and somewhat
useless, would be that people haven't decided if prisons are to
punish, rehabilitate, or to just keep criminals away from the public.
As we all know that three in one
cup of soups aren't that very tasty, so do we know that, when you try
to have the best of both worlds, things rarely work out. If a prison
was to be all those things as mentioned in the previous paragraph, it would be highly
expensive, and if a half attempt was made, it would do most likely
none of them.
So with that in mind, most
governments go for just keeping criminals locked up, for the time
being. One of the many problems of that is, it's expensive, very
expensive. Moreover, it's more expensive then it should really be in
light of human rights, and their beliefs in how we should treat other
humans who were anything but humane to their victims.
Nevertheless, beside that issue,
would be that, locking up someone changes nothing. While commonly
believed that time changes everything, it does not. We might like to
think that, but the only thing that changes people are experiences.
However, the experiences that prisoners receive in prison, are not
really the one's that you want them to learn.
Despite all that, it is not one
of the biggest issues at hand. The biggest would be that, whenever a
criminal does a crime and they go to prison, for them to go
to prison, they had to take something out of society. Whether what
they took be the peace, or an item from someone, a life, or whatever it be, they
never repay it. Instead, for some reason, they just live in a place
where they are all locked up.
How does that help society, not
only has something been taken, society has to give back to the taker;Tax payers have to pay for their up keep, they don't don't pay ours. It's like the victim of an attack paying the medical fees of their attacker who injured their hand when attacking the victim.
The problem with the justice
system is not that the prisoners suffer enough, but that they need to
either be rehabilitated or they fix the mess that they made. They should some how
pay for what they did, but not in the sense the pain they feel in prison, but what
they give to their victims or back to society. When it comes down the line, with the justice
system is the mistaken ideal, that if the prisoner is suffering, the
victim is benefiting.
Laws are the very thing that
holds society. However, whenever society has these laws broken, they
must make things as they were. Otherwise, society starts to crumble.
And while it may not seem important that rules are broken, Rome one
of the mightiest empires was destroyed by corruption. They were so corrupt, till barbarians
could just take whatever they wanted, because the empire was
destroyed from the inside out.
With our society, it seems that
we are realizing that hiding what we don't like in our society under
the carpet is not working. It's a rude awakening, but with realization things will be only for the better. Like a man or woman realizing that
their lifestyle is not healthy, so we must realize that our justice
system needs change. Changed not just for prisoners and their victims, but
for all of us.
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