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

find

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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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committing

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

behaviors

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and mental thoughts from their deep heart compared with the policy of longer

prison

time

.