Some people believe the purpose of prison is to punish while others would argue that rehabilitation is its primary role Discuss both views and give your own opinion

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Some people believe the purpose of prison is to punish, while others would argue that rehabilitation is its primary role.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

A country’s penal system is one of the most complicated, yet cardinal part of its democratic system. People have different beliefs when it comes to the main purpose of the penal system; some favour the idea of solely punishing criminals while others focus on the well-being of the criminals once they are released. This essay will argue that the actual goal of prisoners is an amalgamation of punishing offenders for heinous crimes along with rehabilitating those who deserve a second chance.

Some people would argue that the sole purpose of the law is to deter crime; owing to which, punishing criminals as its top-most priority. The reason is simple to understand, these individuals think that maintaining a safe society is only possible by putting wrongdoers behind the bars which set an example for others who are considering committing crimes for financial gains or to take revenge from others. For instance, if a robber is sentenced to prison, it would not only help to deter his activities but also sends out a clear message to other burglars to stop such offences. Thus, this group of people believes in punishment as the sole purpose of the law.

On the other hand, others support the view of assisting criminals to become a part of society. They argue about giving training to the criminals in order to make them job-ready and becoming law-abiding citizens, in turn. This ideology stems from the opinion that after completing sentences wrongdoers will get released, therefore, making them job-ready along with imparting some moral values can prevent them from committing crimes again. Hence, jails and the penal system should consider rehabilitating as its prime responsibility. However, I disagree with both the views as it is inefficient to rely on a single system either it is punishing them or rehabilitation programs. In my view, prions and law comprise of both the activities as their prime duty. Since an efficient way to lower the crime rate is to punish criminals and turning them to better individuals so that they do not commit crimes again. Eventually, making a safe society.

To conclude, undoubtedly, crime should be punished, but rehabilitation is another important aspect that cannot be overlooked. Punishment aided with some rehabilitation programs is the main aim of the penal system as it is the most effective way to keep in check the increasing crime rates.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 705, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...on programs. In my view, prions and law comprise of both the activities as their prime duty...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, in my view, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2009.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 394.0 315.596192385 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09898477157 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85584879663 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545685279188 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0429328995 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.176470588 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1764705882 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17647058824 7.06120827912 102% => 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 : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.260272259108 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0831333622919 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596116539118 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149617381944 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043687899219 0.056905535591 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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