punishment vs rehabilitation

The article of punishment vs. rehabilitation covered issues about how the prison system treats and should treat the inmates. It covered several ideas having to do with the prison system. The article also focuses on solutions in which the justice system has tried to implement and for some reason the solutions did not quite work. As the article mentioned they tried to focus on the bigger terms of why the justice system came to life and the purposes it is supposed to serve, those purposes being rehabilitation, punishment, deterrence and incapacitation. The moral of the system in my opinion is set up properly but is in the people that for some reason we cannot make it work. Also, if I’m right I believe that these are some of the same standards that countries like France and Canada have and they have really low crime. The American society has built a really low sense of importance towards solving crime. Americans are scared of the law and its components when it should be the other way where the law/ government should be scared of the people, like scared of the population becoming rebellious and making the government change its not so good aspects. A lot of the times instead of looking for them to solve our issues those in a way bring more issues because people are often scared of the law. And if it all starts with these basics, imagine how much more worst it gets once a person finds itself in prison, incarcerated for possibly the rest of their lives. There is no way that people are going to be willing to change, when only they feel like the government is after them. Therefore I believe prison is not the best way to deal with gang members because just about all of them are in there because they were in search of money which they needed to eat in order to survive. They are there because of many unjust and unfair reasons and if only they could have gotten more adequate help they would not find themselves in those circumstances of being in jail. More programs like homeboy industries could be joined with probation courts to work solve some of the issues of gang members. Because it would help them make better decisions and have a life of their own, not having to be concerned of always watching their backs.