A person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not retain any civil rights or the right to benefit from his or her own labor.

The argument that a criminal should not retain any civil rights is flawed. Such reasoning doesn't account the reasons due to which the person actually committed the crime in the first place. Also it doesn't consider any possibility of change in the persons behavior with time. Although, people should be punished for their crimes, they must not be deprived from the basic civil rights that are entitled to every human.

Consider the case of a woman who murdered her husband because he was a pedophile and he was trying to attack their own daughter. The woman even though knowingly committed the crime, she did it to protect her daughter. She must be sentenced to prison for taking the law for granted but retracting her civil rights for life would be outrageous. Such would be case of many people who are in the prison in the first place. Not everyone who commits a crime is a criminal. Some must have done under duress, some must have done it to protect their loved ones.

Even most notorious criminals change over time. They learn from their past. If a person is sentenced to life, he should at least given a chance for a plea at some point of time in the future. Based on subjective tests done by psychiatric experts, his/her conditions have to be assessed and only if the results are positive, he should be given the right to benefit from his or her own labor. This is a more humane way of dealing with the criminals. But their are exceptions. Some criminals may act their way through trickery and grab a jail-free card. They may go out and commit much more heinous crimes. Hence, the diagnosis must be done in multiple phases including proper assessment of the entire time the prisoner spent in the prison and the reason why he/she was in the prison for the first time.

There are some gangsters and mafia who engage in crimes their lifetime. Such people break the law again and again should not be given any chance as they broke the social contract a myriad times. In such cases retracting their civil rights seems correct. However, every case must be analyzed and only after proper evidence, such action should be taken.

People who commit crimes even knowingly may change over time. Hence depriving of them of minimum rights is not humane. They should be given a chance after some years of punishment. Only after all the options are exhausted, their benefits must be retracted.

Votes
Average: 8 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...committed the crime in the first place. Also it doesn't consider any possibilit...
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Line 1, column 260, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...nsider any possibility of change in the persons behavior with time. Although, people sh...
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Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
... way of dealing with the criminals. But their are exceptions. Some criminals may act ...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...es even knowingly may change over time. Hence depriving of them of minimum rights is ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'after all', 'at least', 'in the first place']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.216274089936 0.238963963785 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.188436830835 0.154291517835 122% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0749464668094 0.0886310499679 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0428265524625 0.0506014161523 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0620985010707 0.0449626384858 138% => OK
Prepositions: 0.104925053533 0.123526278965 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0663811563169 0.0379742944744 175% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.32988901525 2.82910677849 82% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0192719486081 0.0316879551592 61% => OK
Particles: 0.00214132762313 0.0014075125626 152% => OK
Determiners: 0.109207708779 0.0950106342287 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0406852248394 0.0245489744465 166% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.017130620985 0.0157978311181 108% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2405.0 2899.98275862 83% => OK
No of words: 421.0 478.390804598 88% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71258907363 6.0591788892 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.65681771538 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32541567696 0.369966551584 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.192399049881 0.285172536893 67% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.137767220903 0.207245337619 66% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0878859857482 0.136322040163 64% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32988901525 2.82910677849 82% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 234.298850575 85% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475059382423 0.492565540709 96% => OK
Word variations: 52.0192015298 56.8184620615 92% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 21.1264367816 128% => OK
Sentence length: 15.5925925926 23.7468607788 66% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1141974204 62.0618507366 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0740740741 143.81877709 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5925925926 23.7468607788 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.444444444444 0.728815259664 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.71264367816 52% => OK
Readability: 34.8324975807 52.2641144681 67% => OK
Elegance: 1.32116788321 1.64547068916 80% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380118390794 0.39480681544 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0697347928355 0.11556216369 60% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0679094360793 0.0736162880345 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.409311662711 0.531340600358 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143557803066 0.15197228837 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104844180673 0.158818324754 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0862280254559 0.0851127212816 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.340660337582 0.388921930462 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0789792458924 0.0677916285025 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223607680643 0.28015025965 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758247329832 0.0610219844235 124% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.8591954023 83% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.30459770115 245% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.96264367816 101% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 8.10632183908 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.93390804598 153% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.04597701149 33% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 15.0862068966 80% => OK

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 4.75 Out of 6