Many offenders commit more crimes after serving the first punishment. Why is this happening, and what measures can be taken to tackle this problem?

It has become a common phenomenon that criminals who finished their serving in prison tend to break the law and end up in jail again. In my opinion, not only insufficient rehabilitation services offered by government or non-profit organizations but also the nature of justice system design contributes to this tragic situation. Much efforts are needed by both government and society to make a change.

One major reason why ex-offenders failed to live a normal live is that there is no effective rehabilitation help for restarting a new life. Especially under the social norms which people would in general discriminate a person with “records”, which means criminals don’t really have a second chance as employers and family would distant themselves from offenders out of social pressure. There are numerous examples that ex-criminals walked out of cell and then became homeless. They usually commit another crime such as robbery to make a living. Perhaps for them the indifference of society makes prison a better place simply for the purpose of surviving.

What is more problematic is the design of entire justice system, which is to punish law breakers instead of reducing crimes for the goodness of the whole community. Indeed, running a federal prison somehow became a privatized profit-making business which actually benefits from more crimes. For instance, in 2008 a scandal reveals two judges in Pennsylvania are bribed by corporation who runs prisons to give 5000 teenagers much more sever sentences for petty crimes. No surprise there would be no ethics or incentives for precursors to improve the lives for an ex-offender under this distorted system.

To solve the problem, it needs ultimate reform of justice system which should be aimed at rehabilitation instead of punishment, as well as relinquishing the privatization of federal prisons, such as promoting more non-profit rehabilitation organizations. It also needs corroborative efforts by the rest of the society to build a more tolerant environment to help ex-offenders to restart a new life.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 329, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: Many
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, really, second, so, then, well, for instance, in general, such as, as well as, in my opinion, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1760.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38226299694 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17834853205 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60244648318 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7645063721 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.714285714 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3571428571 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.35714285714 7.06120827912 133% => 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 : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => 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: 0.135299981698 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428834800163 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332371652686 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0781862191616 0.151304729494 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255904721296 0.056905535591 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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