Because we have lived with the prison system for so long, we are perhaps prone to simply accept it as a necessary evil. After all, some might conclude, this is just one of the costs that has to be borne in order to restrain crime. Yet, we must ask whether our prison system has done much restraining. Many prisoners have openly admitted that they found themselves in prison because they were sloppy in their lives of crime and had not perfected their skills. Through mutual exchange of ideas with one another in prison, where they have plenty of idle time to talk and think, they will sharpen their abilities so that they do not make the same mistakes again.
Prisons become literal training grounds for more professional criminals.
These men become even more hardened and brutal in having to endure the system. Prisons do not restrain, but actually foster crime. According to recent statistics, a crime against property is committed in the United States every three seconds. This includes theft, burglary, fraud, embezzlement, etc. In addition, violent crime in which a person is assaulted or killed is committed every 30 seconds in this country.