THEORETICALY SPEAKING

It is increasingly being acknowledge in prison based penal systems that prison is neither just nor effective as a deterent or a punishment, The high levels of suicide in prison in modern countries are a mute testimony to the fact that death itself is often seen as preferable to the psychological tortues which prison inflict,It would apper however that liberal sensibilities are more comfortable with a form of punishment which leaves no physical marks, and draws no unsightly blood, forgetting that to torture the soul by locking a man up in the company of criminals does far more lasting damage.Neither is incarceration just for there are certain types of man who thrive in prison,and others who suffer immeasureably.The former is likely to learn the crimmal arts while behind bars,while the latter will be permanently trumatised.As for a deterrent value while prison is widely regarded as unpleasant, for certain individuals to have a criminal record is seen as a mark of manhood.And while physical punishment is comprehensible beforehand, the miseries of prison life are known only to those who have exerienced them.These inadequacies in the penal system are one reason why secular countries are experiencing  a rapidly increasing incidence of crime!