The Gladstone Committee Report never used the word rehabilitation; instead, it referred to treatment in reference to the way prisoners were treated while relating to the conditions of prison at that period. Reformation, according to GCR, is not easy to conduct in prison. The Gladstone Committee emphasized especially on the categorization of prisoners for the purpose of treating people as a way of differentiating the crimes committed and the people who committed these crimes. According to the committee, the offenses had no dictation or definition on the characters of the person. The committee additionally supported prohibition of inmates talking; labor introduction in the association and learning was not to be personal and conducted outside the cells. The report of Gladstone Committee supported the idea of separating young and old offenders in prison (Brown, 2003)
Rehabilitation would be the best word of choice when relating to handling criminals because when prisoners have passed rehabilitation they are seen as restored people and hence making them constructive individuals. With rehabilitation, criminals acknowledge the crimes they have committed and accept the consequences. Despite the punishment that criminals undergo in prison they contemplate fully to the extent at which they pushed morality values on committing the offenses that are often considered brutal within the society.
For prisoners, rehabilitation is a way of showing that society cares and has the willingness to assist in overcoming behaviors and adopting changes. When prisoners undergo rehabilitation, they do not often commit the same crime without thinking of the consequences. Rehabilitation has an impact on the society because it shows how concerned and willing the community is to assist by reformation and transformation since everyone else is often bound to mistakes. For this reason, with rehabilitation comes redemption that is perceived at a price to which, according to Robin & Crow (2009), everyone else has to pay in an effort of becoming a better person.
References
Brown, A. (2003). English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture, and Politics in the Development of the Modern Prison, 1850-1920. Boydell Press.
Robinson, G., & Crow, I. (2009). Offender Rehabilitation in Context: Theory, Policy and Practice. SAGE.
