Suggest Alternative Ways of Punishment for People with Children (Mother with Babies)

While a single parent is detained, children’s interest, especially babies, has to be taken into account. Courts have to analyze what impacts on children’s emotional well-being their parents’ arrest might cause. The central role of justice is to create a balance within social institutes and bodies, thus satisfying the needs of all citizens. In case a mother commits a crime, the first measure should be precautionary in the forms of fines, correctional works, and others. When it comes to sentencing a pregnant woman, it is necessary to impose non-custodial sanctions and measures on her where it is possible and appropriate. All these strategies might be helpful in reducing prison overcrowding.

From my perspective, prison overcrowding is a highly controversial issue that is challenging to solve. There are a lot of strategies devised, but it is difficult to usher them into practice. These plans outlining the reduction of excessive imprisonment are just a formality that needs to be implemented in real life. The alarming problem is that overcrowded prisons are spreading viruses that might affect either prisoners or staff workers. Staff workers are the representative of the outside communities that are at a high risk of catching diseases.

The issue of prison overcrowding is still open, as authorities and activists put in their efforts to resolve this controversial issue that causes a lot of problems to the public health within a concrete community. Inmates are not the only people who suffer from this issue; prison staff and ordinary people are at high risk of being infected with viruses spread in the prison environment. This issue is much spoken nowadays; the situation needs drastic changes to be implemented.

References

Joseph, O. E., Femi, A. F., Ogadimma, A., Bamidele, R., Oluwakemisola, O., Akintoyese, O. I., & Jide Joseph, O. (2021). Prison overcrowding trend in Nigeria and policy implications on health. Cogent Social Sciences, 7(1), 115-137.