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Trishna

Trishna — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

it for sure is not the result of the law and order dept failing to tackle the crime but the fault of the regulating bodies that are failing to recognize the problem with the law itself. we are living in a society where there are inequalities esp. social and economic. and while its on the rise we can only but hope the crime to gets low but the problem of over crowded prisons will always remain. Our environment is not the consequences of Criminals but criminals are consequences of environment. if the environment gets better we’ll automatically get less people in there.

Authorized to say so because i myself lived for 6 years in the prison.

Prasad

Prasad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

No need to take criminals in prisons for long time. Increase the rate of capital punishment to criminals. It will help in reducing the number of prisoners and in tackling the rising crime waves as well.

Jen

Jen — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Overcrowded prisons creates several negative effects upon inmates by creating competition for limited resources in prisons, aggression, conflicts, higher rates of illness and higher suicide rates too.

Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Jails are considered to be the most visible and active components of the criminal justice system in every country. In US, police administration arrest 15 million criminals per year but there are very few numbers of jail with adequate facilities. As a result the local jails are becoming dangerously overcrowded. It should be tackled fast to tackle booming crime rate across the country.

Simon

Simon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

there are no definitive evidence that beating or imprisoning people not ptoved a solution for society’s concerns or for the the rehabilitation of offenders.

i confess that I don’t know the answer of it but I suspect it most probably concerned to the nature of our society - our dominant “values”. Well, it all depends on your values....the way society goes or what it endorse

Andy

Andy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yes!!! bcoz by punishing the ppl law takes away the cause of crime rather than the result. this is the failure of the planning and rather putting the root of the crime will make more sense than to prison ppl for a long time i.g. punishing ppl for drug crimes, rather, steming the flux of drugs will be more result oriented....

Yash

Yash — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It would make far more sense to build facilities capable of training people each for employment, or providing psychological and psychiatric care rather than shutting them away. there is the need for the change in the policy or else the govt. should start making new prisons and even will fall short after sometime...

Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

this is the case of criminal psyche and those who are born with some defunct nature, deserve punishment and nothing else...and as far as the failure of policy is concerned, govt can’t change mentality but only can make efforts to mend it to certain extent but not as a whole...

Joni

Joni — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I had faced several problems when I was in jail that had 900 more prisoners than its capacity. Overcrowding caused dangerous working conditions for those who work inside the jail.

Muhammad

Muhammad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

overcrowding also becomes a burden for jail administration too. Local authorities do send house prisoners in neighboring jails at costly daily rates that increases compounding security and budget concerns for the administration.

Gaurav

Gaurav — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

People lose confidence in the criminal justice system when jails are forced to release unsupervised offenders most of the times. It mostly happens in India.

ZeHao

ZeHao — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Prison design and reducing the prison population by developing other alternatives to incarceration are some of the methods to reduce prison overcrowding.

Tim

Tim — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The limited space and resources to feed almost double prisoners actually curtails the opportunities for them to participate in self-improvement and other rehabilitative programs. It also creates frustration at dangerous extent.

Robyn

Robyn — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Competition and conflict over limited resources for overcrowded population in jails often lead to aggression and fights. It is the clear failure of judicial system because it sends criminals to jail to given them chance to change their behavior and character but overcrowded jails force them to fight like hell.

Refat

Refat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Territorial behaviour is the characteristics of human being. It happens in jails too. hardcore criminals make their own gang in jails too. They just dominate the overcrowded jails because they want to do extra use of already limited resources. It creates insecurity among other inmates.

Manishkumar

Manishkumar — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

When more than 7 billion people are living with limited resources on the earth, what is wrong in overcrowded jails? It is nothing like failure of judicial system. The governments have several other important thing to do before building jails to adjust the criminals. Adjust homeless poor people first by building homes for them then do think about the overcrowded jails.

Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its high time to explore alternative responses to stop overcrowding in jails.

Avadhut

Avadhut — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Arresting because of impaired driving, domestic violence, drugs trafficking is the major factor working behind the overcrowding of jails. Such cases should be dealt separately.

Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its true. In several United States jurisdictions, community-based correctional programs are more crowded than the prisons in US.

Nkosipile

Nkosipile — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It shows absolute failure of the criminal justice system. More than half of prison suicides occur in the most overcrowded jails.

Bill

Bill — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

if we will not jail them then, do we need them in streets or in our homes. the argument of govt. failure to tackle prisoners come from an insane mind. build build more and more prisons if that is what is required.

Elias

Elias — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Change of law is need to prevent overcrowding in jails. The law should only send to prison people whose offence makes any alternative unacceptable.

Monica

Monica — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

this is due to government incompetence, this will lead to an increase in crime and civil disorder will most probably increase. with this a total breakdown is on the cards and the fault can only be placed at the door of the govts in any part of the world. when the planet is over populated then do you think that prisons will be the places that will remain untouched everything will increase with the increasing population

Shameem

Shameem — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Slapping imprisonment to criminals is not the answer of all the problems.

Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I am just waiting for the day when the government would open its eyes at last and have punishments befitting the crime people would be less likely to offend.

rather than imprisoning ppl for minor crimes,having a better standard of living than honest poorer citizens, the criminals experience be so negative that they would never want to have to be in prison.

Shehzaan

Shehzaan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yes this is the failure to tackle the crime and there is only one solution: Reintroduce the death penalty and that will vacate prison cells for the other dross that masquerades as human beings.

Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You can see horrible data here about overcrowded jails in UK.

Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

failure or whatever but do one thing, put all the criminals in a boat and leave them in an empty island and thats it...simple as that. isn’t it????????

Saad

Saad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Let them live in hell-like conditions. After all they are there for punishment not for honeymoon.

Siddiqur

Siddiqur — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its a serious problem and should be tackled fast...

Graham

Graham — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its certainly not the reflection of failure in tackling crime waves but an indication of how efficient the police administration is. take the things positively.

Brajesh

Brajesh — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Criminals sentenced more than five years of term should be preferably hanged.

Suryasnata

Suryasnata — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

UK and USA are the worst country for prisoners. India is the best.

Sweta

Sweta — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Build jails for murders in every district and just punish them hard to teach others a lesson....

Andy

Andy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Criminals are criminals, dont discuss and waste your time. Do think for the welfare of poor but law-abiding citizens.

Nautty

Nautty — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Look - an Indian is saying India is the best for prisoners. We all should send our prisoners in India now.

Ehsan

Ehsan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Make laws to hang criminals even for crimes such as drug trafficking. Its killing human minds.

Ted

Ted — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

On the contrary it shows that we are successful in putting more criminals in the pens they belong to

Sara

Sara — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Not a failure to tackle crime wave, but to reduce the evils in the society that makes a criminal. We have failed there.

Ketul

Ketul — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

crime is a social problem. to reduce crime and criminals is the collective duty of the society. the change must come from within........

Hakan

Hakan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Build more jails. That will reduce the stress on the crowded prisons and the prisoners.

James

James — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yep! more then failrue to tackle crime it is failure to build more prisons

Avadhut

Avadhut — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Overcrowding in prisons is a serious security threat. When terrorists are lodged in such prisons they are perfectly capable of conspiring. Most mafia and terror masterminds operate from inside prisons these days. It serves their purpose right.

Francisco

Francisco — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

brasil prisons r worsted

Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

But prisoners are humans too

Lamai

Lamai — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In thailand we love those who are in the bangkok hilton. no sympaties

Por

Por — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Bangkok Hilton is paradise for them. But agree its failure of law

Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

WHY DO WE CRIME? IT IS MISRABEL

Refat

Refat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Good question. No real Ans.

Chocolat

Chocolat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

They are not lashed at least like the rape and lash in mexico

Royston

Royston — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

dun care ——– cant b bothered.ask michael fay who painted cars......... lolZ

Ritu

Ritu — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Jails were aimed to turn as reforming insitutions, where the criminals would be kept away from the society and reformed to be later let loose back into the system. But our judicial system is such that it drags a case to umpteen number of hearings, leading to a span of innumerable years.

As mentioned by an individual that criminals should be hung, its not fair because nearly half of the said criminals are innocent, they need to get a chance to prove themselves thus.

Yes, jails are getting overcrowded and to avoid this, we need a judicial system which aims at a speedy trial. The jails, should be rather converted into small scale industries, where the convicts under trial for minor crimes contribute their share by adding to production. Only employment can rid us indirectly of the overcrowded jails, nothing else. You cant go around hanging every other person who is behind bars.

Samir

Samir — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Cells are being overcrowded but that does not clearly intends towards that the crime has also been on the rising side...We can say that because of all these newer and better investigation tools, it has become quite easy to keep such criminals of the streets.