PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ESSAY ABOUT JAIL Day to day the rate of crimes in the world in increasing rapidly, and there are many methods to decrease it, one of them is sending criminals to the jail, but some people believe that prison is useless to reduce criminality. There are benefits of giving offenders longer prison punishment, firstly, spending long time in prison provides an opportunity to rethink what they did, in facts many prisoners return changed from prison, thank also to the constant presence of a specialized psychologist. In addition to this, longer prison sentences will act as deterrent for someone who is thinking of committing a crime. However many people argue that leaving people in jail for a long time means that they will mix with other criminals and so their character will not improve. Furthermore some people think that many other methods can be used to decrease crime. One alternative, for minor crimes such as small theft or damage to public property, is community service. This give an offender the opportunity to give something positive back to society . In my opinion, it is important to look at alternative methods, but long prison sentences should remain for those who commit serious crimes such as murders and rapes, as justice for the victims and their families, and at the same time governments could focus their resource on the causes of crimes to counteract them.