A longer prison term as a way of punishing those who break the law is not as good as other methods. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Some people hold the view that prolonging the
prison
time
is a good way to give warning to criminals.
However
, nowadays some countries already cancelled the death punishment because they believe it is too harsh to deprive of people's life. In my opinion, even though increasing
prison
time
is an efficient way to avoid violence, soft policies
also
needed. There will be more hardened criminals if longer
prison
terms are put onto them. Staying at prisons too long will make them lag behind others and lose hope and energy for a long
time
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when released back to
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society, they find themselves desocialization and useless.
For example
, a killer who stayed in the
prison
for 10 years
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himself already lack
of
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basic living skills and lose contact with personal relationship circles. Afterwards
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even though he has freedom, he can't make a living by himself anymore, pushing him to rob others and easily
commiting
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another crimes
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. A better pattern is that connecting hard and soft policies together to reduce criminals,
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adding some education parts to instruct and persuade them. Too much hard policies like increasing
prison
time
can cause negative mentalities and psychological problems, which brings about more troubles for the society.
However
, if using the limited
time
efficiently, governments can initiate some classes to educate parents-child campaigns in prisons and invite criminals' family members and children together to join. During the process, they can understand that freedom is the basic right to gather with children and achieve self-education that they need to regret
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their mistakes and change themselves actively to gain the right. Pushing someone to change is always less useful than the person to change from the deep heart. To sum up, educating and persuading criminals in
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limited
time
can contribute to changing both their
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and mental thoughts from their deep heart compared with the policy of longer
prison
time
.
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