Many criminals receive education in Australian jails, get university degrees and go on to write books. Others become painters. The only thing is that employers are often reluctant to employ people once they know that they have spent time in jail.

They do crime because no suitable job for them, offering education for them is a good way to ask them to avoid bad way in their life. The criminal need to be received in the society to make a change. So, by education, they'll have a ability to gather with the society and do the normal activity like others. Offering a job is a crucial thing. Sometimes it's very hard for them to find a job if known as ex-criminal. If the job is offered and they do their job, they can show if they've better life than before after they go to jail, they change their life. Give some education and training for the criminal is good idea. It's better than they just silent, do the hard thing in the jail. They can introspect themselves and it's a good thing to prevent crime in the jail.

If they are young, education, applied with firmness, can definitely help. Two states in the U.S. have different approaches to jail for teenagers. Missouri uses education, Texas uses harshness, assuming that nobody will want to risk coming back. In Missouri, most of the people they release don't commit another crime. In Texas, it is the opposite. The government of Texas recently asked Missouri for help in reforming its prison system. For older people in jail, I'm not sure. If there is enough time for them to be set in their ways, it is much harder reforming them. It should still be tried, in my opinion, except for very violent offenders.

That is a hard question. Of course it is tempting to think that people can be reformed and be good members of society, but I am not sure... a lot of people who commit crimes have a personality disorder (psychological problem). No matter how well you treat them, or how many second chances they are given, they will end up in trouble again. I think it's good to give people more than one chance, and maybe even more than 3 chances, but after that, there may be nothing society can do to save them, because we live in an imperfect world.

I've always believed it helps to offer opportunities and education to inmates. Try to make it easy for them to better themselves if they have the desire to do so. It also helps if they can find inner peace, spirituality, etc. Humans have the choice of being good or being bad. When these people are in jail they have nothing to look forward to. If you don't give them some opportunity for a productive future they will not change. They will enter back into society with the same outlook on life that they had when they went into jail.