Some people believe that in order to reduce crimes, prisoners should be given longer prison sentences while some people think that there are other alternative ways. Discuss both views and give your opinion

To reduce crime rates, great efforts have been made to achieve

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. Now there are disputes as to whether we should extend

prison

sentence time or not. In my opinion, we have other options,

such

as enhancing

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or community monitoring. Admittedly, the main point of prisons is to take away dangerous people from our communities.

For example

, those who murder others in a cold-blood way must be restricted

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long as possible. The reasons for their behaviours would be psychological problems or damage to chemicals

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their brains that can affect them continuously.

Thus

, putting them in

prison

longer is a good solution.

However

, there are still disadvantages. The prisons would be increasingly crowded so that there is no space for the latter criminals. If more prisons are needed to be built, it would need more taxes to afford the fees.

Therefore

, our government would have less to invest

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other sectors as our budgets are never unlimited.

Therefore

, I tend to think that we can take other alternative solutions. For the

first

point, we should categorize prisoners as not all of them are murders.

For instance

, murderers and drunk drivers should not be put in the same

prison

.

In addition

, we can ask communities to monitor those who have committed relatively slight

crimes

,

such

as stealing.

This

can not only force them to correct their mistakes but

also

give them a deterrence that they cannot commit

crimes

. In conclusion,

although

long

prison

sentences may reduce

crimes

to some extent,

this

is not the best way for all

crimes

. We should adopt various measures

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different

crimes

so that we can save social resources as well as reduce

crimes

.