Do Prisons Work

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…be made. Improvements in job training, counselling, and halfway houses for rehabilitation must be brought to the forefront by citizens. If we do not get involved and try to make changes, our crime problem could worsen beyond control. We must also acknowledge that the overwhelming force of all the research work strongly suggests that alternatives better than custodial sentence exists for non-violent offenders and we should seek to reduce rather than increase our prison numbers.