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  by Darcia Helle

  Created on: April 29, 2009   Last Updated: May 16, 2009

  The word penitentiary originates from the Pennsylvania Quakers' belief in penitence and self-examination

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  by Dan Mage

  Created on: June 07, 2009   Last Updated: June 08, 2009

  Prisons do not reform criminals. While there is no doubt that a significant minority of criminals

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  by Love Smith

  Created on: January 15, 2008

  I don't believe that prison reforms criminals. I say this because I know so many people who have served

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  by Marc Phillippe Babineau

  Created on: June 21, 2010   Last Updated: June 30, 2010

  Most State and Federal prisons are breeding grounds for gangs, with more drugs and violence being prevalent

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  by Darryl Ford

  Created on: December 11, 2009   Last Updated: December 12, 2009

  Prisons aren't designed to reform criminals because if they did, this would mean a lot of people would

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  by Elisabeth Mcgrath

  Created on: January 14, 2008   Last Updated: January 18, 2010

  Prisons can be seen as institutions that function to protect society from crime. Incarceration in that

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  by Allison Moore

  Created on: June 25, 2009   Last Updated: July 06, 2009

  Many people hold on to the expectation of prisoners being restored by some special class, some program,

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  by Rosemary Redfern

  Created on: June 30, 2010   Last Updated: July 08, 2010

  Prison was designed to take away liberty and to punish. The choice of whether we want to use prisons

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  by Angela Diggs

  Created on: August 02, 2008   Last Updated: March 25, 2009

  Whether prison reforms a criminal or not is completely up to the individual. It depends on what they

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  by Silva Payne

  Created on: April 05, 2008   Last Updated: July 17, 2010

  In answering 'no' to the question, there needs to be a caveat in place. Some enlightened prison systems

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  by Crystal Lambert

  Created on: October 11, 2009   Last Updated: October 13, 2009

  The question being asked is if the criminal system reforms a criminal and in looking at the criminal

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  by Wayne Leon Learmond

  Created on: April 01, 2011

  In 1955, in Holloway Prison in the United Kingdom, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be put to

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  by Tim Gray

  Created on: July 21, 2008   Last Updated: August 01, 2008

  Are you willing to guess what country has the highest per capita prison population in the world? Go

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  by Joshua Zepnick

  Created on: June 07, 2009   Last Updated: June 08, 2009

  The purpose of prisons should not be to reform individuals, but to punish individuals for doing wrong

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  by Joseph Whalen

  Created on: January 14, 2008

  Given the horribly high repeat offender rate of criminals today, the thought that prison is capable

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  by Laurence Newman

  Created on: February 20, 2008

  Prisons do not reform criminals. Many convicted gangsters, fraudsters and rapists, for example, return

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  by Paula Testerman

  Created on: February 21, 2008

  While the prison system was designed to provide rehabilitation for prisoners, the system has not worked

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  by Michel R. Baylor

  Created on: April 08, 2009

  YOUNG, BLACK, "CRIMINAL" MALES: Reform and rehabilitation or deform and institutionalization? That is

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  by Christine D. Patterson

  Created on: June 26, 2008

  With prisoners stuffed in cells like sardines, how could there be reform? Many of the prisons don't

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  by TRL

  Created on: March 20, 2009   Last Updated: March 24, 2009

  An innocent man dies at the hands of an angered citizen who has chosen life as a criminal for whatever