Child Labor is a tool most of the Industrialists developed nations are handling conveniently to blame the psyche of the Industries in developing countries. Anybody, who contributes his adverse remarks against Child Labor, never comes up with a firm solution and those who suggest some sort of action never think that their theories are impracticable. They either don’t know the industrial set- up of these developing nations or unaware of the poverty lines still shining bright across the countries.

The countries generally seen under the firing line are mainly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and many African countries like Liberia Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. These countries produce many a products for export from their respective countries to the Developed nations.

Let us analyze the industries, which are vigorously exploiting the children of these countries to keep their gears running:

Though the Labor Laws of these countries have different age-group to define a person’s eligibility to get employed, generally any registered Industry, either Small Scale, Medium Scale or Large Scale does not employ skilled or unskilled laborers below the age of 18 years. These industries even deny hiring underage contracted employees. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though our prisons fail in their goals of deterrence and rehabilitation, there is one way they succeed: incapacitation. When criminals are in prison, they cannot commit crimes in the free world. They still commit crimes in prison.

Incapacitation now ranks as the primary justification for prison. Society has almost given up on rehabilitation, the original goal of the penitentiary. When Congress abolished parole in the federal criminal justice system, they found point-blank that rehabilitation efforts have largely failed.

Some studies show great value in temporarily preventing crime with incapacitation. One found that for each convict released due to prison overcrowding litigation, over a dozen crimes are committed, at a cost of above the average cost of keeping a prisoner for one year. Another found the cost of releasing a criminal to be over 10 times the cost of incarceration. Many inmates unless confined commit something like 200 crimes per year. One economist found four reasons for the marked decrease in U.S. crime, starting in about 1991: the rising prison population, more police, the receding crack cocaine epidemic and the legalization of abortion. One advantage of prison is that it gives young men and women time to mature. After lengthy prison sentences, older, more mature offenders are less likely to re-offend violently than when they were younger. Read the rest of this entry »