Some people see prisons as the place where criminals should be to teach them how to lead better lives. What is your opinion about the main function of time spent in prison is punishment or rehabilitations?

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Some people see prisons as the place where criminals should be to teach them how to lead better lives. What is your opinion about the main function of time spent in prison is punishment or rehabilitations?

The debate on whether the primary function of prisons is to teach criminals how to lead better lives or punish them has never failed to attract public attentions. Although contested by many that the main purpose of prison is rehabilitation, such issue is regarded thoroughly as both positive and constructive by a number of individuals. In my opinion, I am inclined to believe that the fundamental purpose of jail is to help criminals reflect on their crime and change for the better of society and I will elaborate in the following essay.

To begin with, nonviolent rehabilitation helps criminals return to society as normal citizens. This include education, psychotherapy and other treatments which invest at the root of the problem to bring positive influences on prisoners. In fact, a research done by U.S. Department of Education shows that 40% fewer criminals returned to jail when they took the courses of reform during prison. Hence, it is more effective to use prisons as a tool of rehabilitation to ensure the chances of a prisoner committing another crime reduces, thus keep everyone safe in the community.

Furthermore, the amount of taxes spending on prisons had increased each year. Since most of these prisoners committed to crime due to lack of education and knowledge, these taxes can be better used on rehabilitate and prepare and them to return to society with occupational skills. According to one of my study, 50% prisoners are unlikely to return to jail after they have a solid income. Therefore, by changing the prison system with educating and training program does not only reduce crime rate, also saves huge taxes every year.

In conclusion, although, it is impossible to deny the importance of punishment in prison, rehabilitation should be the main function to prepare prisoners to return to society as good citizens.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, hence, so, therefore, thus, in conclusion, in fact, in my opinion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 31.9359605911 185% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.75862068966 208% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1207.87684729 128% => OK
No of words: 303.0 242.827586207 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12211221122 5.00649968141 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95451620167 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 139.433497537 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594059405941 0.580463131201 102% => OK
syllable_count: 504.0 379.143842365 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 3.65517241379 192% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.5024630542 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 40.2708710553 50.4703680194 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.333333333 104.977214359 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 20.9669160288 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 7.25397266985 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 2.75862068966 290% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 2.91625615764 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292228233668 0.242375264174 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104883167977 0.0925447433944 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851116110829 0.071462118173 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193002618538 0.151781067708 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.06473221386 0.0609392437508 106% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 12.6369458128 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.1260098522 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.9458128079 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 11.5310837438 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 55.0591133005 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.94827586207 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.3980295567 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.5123152709 133% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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