In many places prisons are overcrowded and expensive for governments to maintain Yet when offenders are released they end up back in prison a short while later Does prison work Should lawbreakers be rehabilitated or punished

Essay topics:

In many places ,prisons are overcrowded and expensive for governments to maintain.Yet, when offenders are released ,they end up back in prison a short while later.Does prison work ?Should lawbreakers be rehabilitated or punished?

Imprisonment is one of the most common forms of punishment in several countries. However effective is this system, a high percentage of prisoner’s relapse into crime once they are released into the community. Criminals are imprisoned again, and the cycle continues forever. In my view, sentencing criminals to time in prison fails in most cases.

Firstly, offenders enjoy a comfortable life in prisons. Many of them have access to luxuries life such as watching televisions, using mobile phones, free internet and enjoying sport facilities etc. In other words, instead of being a place where lawbreakers should learn a life lesson, prisons become holiday camps. If the penal system really expects prisons to act, they should have some legislative terms as per their criminal acts.

Secondly, I do not accept that all offenders need to be separated from society. Take pickpockets and shoplifters as examples. Keeping these petty criminals in the same cells as rapists, murderers or violent criminals worsens the situation. This is because after serving their time in prisons, juvenile and minor offenders often turn into habitual and professional criminals. Sadly, governments and tax payers must bear the cost of keeping these criminals in jails. I think punishing them through fines, community service or other non-custodial means etc. is a better option.

Conclusion, I understand that criminals who pose a threat to society cannot be allowed to roam freely. For such people, imprisonment is necessary. But, for other offences prison is not the answer. In my view, the severity of the crime committed should be taken into consideration before deciding on the punishment.

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Average: 7.3 (38 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 163, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'offences'' or 'offence's'?
Suggestion: offences'; offence's
...prisonment is necessary. But, for other offences prison is not the answer. In my view, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, i think, such as, in most cases, in my view, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1429.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 264.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41287878788 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89044440313 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.659090909091 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.2975951904 64% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3745057884 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.2105263158 106.682146367 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.8947368421 20.7667163134 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21710877286 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562694784983 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564408444489 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12375083758 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404269432341 0.056905535591 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.82 50.2224549098 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.1190380762 71% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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