Benefits to Prison Reform Programs

Abstract

Prison Reform is an attempt to improve the conditions of prisons across the country. Prison Reform is also a way the government can find an alternative to incarceration, which could reduce the overcrowding prison populations in the United States. Prison Reform can also benefit those who have been incarcerated that have not committed a heinous crime. Other alternatives to prison are community service, probation, rehabilitated services and restitution. Prison reform could help those who have been convicted of nonviolent and non-serious offenders. Those who fail to follow the alternatives to incarceration will then be given prison or jail time. Prison Reform could be beneficial to the justice system by giving those in prison a second chance, which would allow them to see their families without being behind bars and giving them the opportunity to turn their lives around.