Educating prisoners is believed to be the major key for minimizing crime rate and supplying them with jobs in their afterlfe. I would agree with this idea, however education can be key for preventing crime too. In following paragraphs these ideas will be discussed sequencely.
Education is key for many problems existing in a society and crime is not an exception in this list. Teaching specific skills at prison to offenders, undoubtedly, useful in their continious life, but they should be taught according to their own interests, as in other cases they might get demotivated twice. Moreover, just making prisoners to read a book every day at certain pages can change their mindset. there are some countries where reading any kind of book daily is compulsory in prisons and it has benefits on prisoners’ overall well-being and it has been prooved to be useful to implement in other jails too.
Despite those benefits, it is more beneficial to use education to prevent crime by teaching its drawbacks from early ages of children, not in prison. Governments should take some measures such as organizing meetings with people contributing to enhance children’s well-being in a positive way. Explaining laws, punishments and causes of offence can also work for reducing crime rate. Children should be taught in a way that makes them to be afraid of commiting crime. In conclusion, education should serve firstly as a preventor from crimes, although in jail it is the best way to make shifts in behaviour of offenders