Step 5 - Speaking

Prison
In your group discuss the following questions:
- Why do we put people in jail?
- Do people come out of jail better people?
- How can you tell when a person is ‘safe’ to release?
- Does that mean that many people should never be released from jail?
- What is a ‘life sentence’? Should it literally mean ‘life’?
- What about ‘good conduct’? Should people be allowed out early if they behave themselves?
- Should we try to make life as uncomfortable as possible for people in jail?
- To make jail more unpleasant should criminals be obliged to carry out ‘hard labour’?
- Under what circumstances should we send teenagers to jail?
- What effect do you think it would have on them?