It is often believed that in various nations there is an argument regarding the how effective longer prison sentences to combating crime. While it has both advantages and disadvantage of imprisonment of such criminals for longer period. This eassy will discuss detailed view on positive and negative aspects.
On one hand, There are several advantages of punishing criminal with longer jail time, one of those is decrease in crime rate. Harsh punishment for the person who commits crime not only stops the further attack he or she have planned, although creates fear in other people who even thinks to perform such illegal activity. For instance, Keeping dangerous criminal off the streets will leads to decrease in a crime rate, as per the reports of famous news channel in india which released in 2023, most of the rowdy sheters who had previous bad history are now not involving in the criminal actions as they have understood the complictions can leads them to loose their social life, and they don’t want to spend their half of their in jail.
However, on the other hand, there are few disadvantages of having individuals for a large duration of time in prisons. Such as, It takes more government resources and government will have the responsibilty to look after their health as well. For example, the government requires alot of jails to keep the persons and eventually needs to pay high maintance for the security, Additonal to that, they also need to spent alot of money on criminals who have serious health issue to keep them alive until they complete their punishment.
In conclusion, although governments need to spend alot of their resources on criminals, it is necessary to keep them in prison so that others will think alot before commiting such crime leading to decrease in attacks and people will have a good lifestyle with better environments.