Smoking Ban in NZ Prisons.
L.I. To write a discussion argument giving both points of view, concluding with my opinion.
Thanks to Judith Collins, The Correction Minister, smoking is going to be banned in New Zealand from July 2011 onwards. This move she said will ‘make prisons safer and healthier for staff and prisoners’. In New Zealand 2/3 of prisoners smoke so this will have a big effect on the way prisoners live. There also are a lot of people that are thinking that prisoners get it way to easy.
There are heaps of reasons for and against but I’m going to show you 3 for and 3 against. Firstly there shouldn’t be luxury options for prisoners, and as many people know smoking makes you feel relaxed. Feeling relaxed shouldn’t be an option because they did something wrong and they need to feel bad for what they have done so they don’t do it again. However there is also an upside as people who don’t smoke and go to prison, they will have to breathe in all the second hand smoke. The people that take prison as their home won’t want to go back there.
Now for another reason if smoking is banned in prison it might keep people from doing crimes as they can’t smoke in prisons so they will have give up smoking smoke while there in prison; but there will also be a bad side to this because smoking will most likely become a black-market item and therefore the prisoners will become more restless and attack guards with smoke on them.
Finally having smoking banned in prison will make it a healthier place for everyone. They can breath fresh air instead of air filled with smoke, this is also polluting the air therefore making our whole country a cleaner and greener place, for everyone to live. But of course there is a bad side the prisoners will crave a smoke way to much and it might cause them to go over the edge and cause more hostile situations in prisons therefore making the government pay more for having more guards to secure the prisons.
In conclusion to this you probably guessed by now that I’m going for this argument as making New Zealand more beautiful and more cleaner is a way better option then keeping it the way it is. Also were letting prisoners feel relaxed and carefree for what they have done. They need to feel the guilt if they killed someone or did a crime.
Learning comment:
I have put this piece of writing on my blog to say that I have learned how to do a discussion argument (a 2 sided argument) Using quotes and current knowledge from newspaper articles.
