Question by NickDanger_99: What purpose does incarceration serve?
Is our prison system there to rehabilitate criminals and try to make them into functioning members of society? Or do we imprison criminals to punish people and satisfy the community’s desire for revenge?

Please think before you answer.

Best answer:

Answer by Matt
Punishment.

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