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In many situations, people who break the law should be warned instead of punished. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#situations #people #law
At present, people have different thoughts when it comes to
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 the lawbreakers. Some believe every rule breaker must be punished whereas
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others oppose that view. In
fact
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 I
also
 believe there should be a fine line in between which should be punished and which should be not. Because if a
person
 with minor offences goes to
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jail
, he will not be the same
person
 when he
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 out
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jail
.
Firstly
, the societies where we live believe, if a
person
 goes to
jail
 that means he is a criminal.
This
 leads the other folks not to associate
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person
. That innocent
person
 may have gone to
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prison wrongfully or it may be a minor driving offence.
Hence
, he will be a worthless
person
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society.
Furthermore
, there are lots of news articles about
such
 people suicide themselves or even become serial killers. But if the judge pardons them or even if they were ordered to do community work,
this
 could be a different scenario.
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 when innocent citizens
jailed
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, they automatically become victims of the dons who runs little thug clusters inside. To stay unharmed they have to become part of those groups and has to abbey the
leaders
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 orders. Once they build up
such
 connections, they come out of
jail
 as a real criminal. And of
course
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 the society will again plot the seeds to criticise that victim. To conclude, even though the correction centres are made for criminals, every crime cannot be measured in
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 way.
Therefore
 I strongly believe minor
rule breakers
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 must be given at least a
second
 chance to correct themselves.
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