Prison is the best punishment for criminals. To what extent do you agree?

It is widely believed that

imprisonment

is the best means of reducing

crime

rate, whereas some people think that other measures could be done to punish the offenders. In my view, most punishment for criminals will be doing the most affected by the law, because it can contribute

to cut

Suggestion

to cutting

the level of rising

crime

. Prison is commonly agreed to be the best way of preventing law violation because the sentence can help change the prisoner’s mind. People who commit petty crimes,

such

as theft, vandalism, reckless driving will be sentenced to six months or a year, enough time for offenders to repay for their price. Life

imprisonment

, solitary confinement, or even corporal punishment would be allowed for serious crimes,

for example

, illegal trafficking, attempted murder, drug dealing; people with those crimes will stay behind bars for a very long time to rethink about the things done in the past.

As a result

, the chances of re-offending and

crime

activity would be decreasing.

However

, there has been a disagreement about

imprisonment

for some people, as it is thought to be inhumane. Some approaches have been suggested to punish the perpetrators; good examples of

this

would be

fining

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fine

, community service, being sent to re-education camp, etc.

Nevertheless

, I am completely against the idea of those easy methods because offenders will act as being regret and when released, they are more likely to re-offend.

Besides

, the measures will not affect much the dangerous inmates,

such

as rapists, serial killers, gang leaders, since they have been living a life of

crime

that it will not be easy to give up, especially with those methods. Overall, there has been a debate about if prison is the best way of punishing the criminals. Personally, I would agree with most people that tough

imprisonment

should be done to minimize the

crime

rate and change the inmates’ minds.