According to a popular blog article on time.com, it has been researched that over 39% of inmates should not be in prison.
WIPSI believe that rather than locking every law offender behind bars for just any crime, whatsoever, that must have been committed, certain measures can be put in place for certain crimes, which necessarily should not result in imprisonment, or if need be, not the unnecessary long-term sentences they are always faced with.
The world prisoners population grows exponentially, and if not checked, can pose a big threat to the world economy, well, that’s if it hasn’t. Locking every law offender in jail leads to a relative decrease in the world labor force, and subsequently, can bring about economic breakdown. Not to mention that the indiscriminate long-term sentences most of these offenders are faced with doesn’t infact change them into more socially acceptable persons but instead, help in producing more vicious terrors(in most cases).
The Women In Prison Support Initiative (WIPSI) suggests that, in place of the mass imprisonment given to every law offender, the gravity of the crimes can be weighed and while some, no doubt, attract long term sentence, if not a death sentence, albeit, some which are of less gravity can attract a certain period of community service, restitution can also be made to the victim(s) or even conscription, a forced military service demanded by some established authority, which will provide more hands in the military and any other method which will not shape the offender into a better individual but become beneficial to the larger society, rather than throwing every offender behind bars at the detriment of their health and that of the world economy, can rather be adopted.
