Some people think all law breakers should be put into prison.Others believe that there are better alternatives.Discuss both views and give your opinion.

It seems to be a common sense that anyone who breaks the law deserve punishments, especially in a prison. However, imprisonment is not the only way to teach delinquents the righteous way of life. In this essay, these two types of views would be examined.
Some people believe that putting lawbreakers into prison is an effective way of treating crimers and be beneficial to the society as a whole. In the first place, by depriving the delinquents their freedom, imprisonment imposes severe enough punishments upon them, and makes the victims and their families feel better, knowing that the bad guys have received what they properly deserve. In addition, from the perspective of social welfare, putting those who act against society into shackles sets an example and deters followers and prevents further damages that might have occurred if such punishments are not in place.
Although there seems to be many positive aspects that associate with imprisonment as a proper punishment, alternatives to such measure may sounds equally efficient and attractive. One of such alternatives is putting minor offenders to the labors of social services. By helping others and contributing to society, offenders would learn the positive cycle between services and payback, thus correcting their mindset of one man’s loss is another’s gain. Another more constructive advice suggests integrating some type of practical training into social service labors, so that offenders would be able to work as average people after serving their labor terms. After all, most of them break the law because they do not know other ways of earning a living.
Both ideas of punishments have their reasonable bases. In my opinion, however, I think imprisonment is necessary to restrict and put off some major offenses, like murder, hijacking of planes, rape. While for some minor offense, like burglary , pocket picketing and privacy, alternative ways that focusing on educating the offenders and giving them a second chance ,shall prevail.