Sports Create Lower Crime Rates
Sports have been proven to reduce recidivism rates, which potentially means that crime rates will reduce as well. Society should be encouraging any programs to continue rehabilitating prisoners to ensure that they will not commit crimes again in the future because that will create a safer environment for the citizens, even if that means a percentage of taxes is going towards allowing prisoners the luxury of sports and recreation while incarcerated. In the end, cutting the recreation programs will not decrease the amount of money that goes towards Corrections, instead the money that was once used for positive rehabilitation will go to other programs such as education for inmates, better medical insurance, higher employee salaries, and even the cost of renovations.
If society is able to reduce crime rates and create a safer environment for future generations, I would like to think that we would pursue the opportunity. Prisons have already found a method that works, but society turns away from the rehabilitative role of prison and force the idea that prisons are only to punish criminals to the extreme in hopes that the severe punishment will teach them to not commit crimes. The research has proven that the rehabilitation role in prison works and sports and physical activity is a main key in prison rehabilitation. If society wants a safer environment in the future, lower crime rates, a less crowded prisons then the states’ and federal legislators need to realize that their “tough on crime” approach is not deterring crime, rather it is increasing the rates”. The legislators need to realize that the No Frills Act is only hurting their own employees and their own communities because they are not properly rehabilitating the prisoners who do not know how to behave according to social norms. The best way for these inmates to learn how to live in society is to allow them to participate in sports where they have to follow rules, where they will lose privileges if they break the rules, where they build trust and bonds, learn teamwork, and most importantly, sports allow inmates to learn how to socially interact and act like humans again.
If society is able to reduce crime rates and create a safer environment for future generations, I would like to think that we would pursue the opportunity. Prisons have already found a method that works, but society turns away from the rehabilitative role of prison and force the idea that prisons are only to punish criminals to the extreme in hopes that the severe punishment will teach them to not commit crimes. The research has proven that the rehabilitation role in prison works and sports and physical activity is a main key in prison rehabilitation. If society wants a safer environment in the future, lower crime rates, a less crowded prisons then the states’ and federal legislators need to realize that their “tough on crime” approach is not deterring crime, rather it is increasing the rates”. The legislators need to realize that the No Frills Act is only hurting their own employees and their own communities because they are not properly rehabilitating the prisoners who do not know how to behave according to social norms. The best way for these inmates to learn how to live in society is to allow them to participate in sports where they have to follow rules, where they will lose privileges if they break the rules, where they build trust and bonds, learn teamwork, and most importantly, sports allow inmates to learn how to socially interact and act like humans again.