hy and understand these individuals choose to use violence to deal with there everyday problems. The pro side just wants to throw away the key at the batterers. In most cases the batterers will not spend along time in jail. When they get released they are going to go right back to what they were doing before beating their love ones. This is because when they were in jail that were not given any help to deal with their problems. By putting them in jail their going to be able to build up angry and frustration and when they get out they are going to being looking to retaliate the ones that put them in the confines of the jail. So the women will be targets first so we are putting them in harm and danger of their lives. Some other problems a rise when we decide to put batterers in jail because we are taking the childs father out of the home and with that might be the income coming into the house to pay the bills and put food on the table and clothes on the child. I know that sounds like the best thing for the child to take the father out of the house to stop the abuse that was going on. In some cases the ones who are batterers hold jobs, are normally nice people but when we are dealing with alcohol and drug abuse these batterers need help so they can stop. Jails are already facing their own problems of being overcrowded and not clean and running up to standard, than why do we add to those problems by arresting batterers? The state spends so much money on building new jails to store all the criminals why not put this money some good use and start treatment prevention programs. Jails will stop the violence but its only going to be temporarily because they will be let free and will just do it all over again.Instead of just locking up the batterers and throwing away the key lets try to help the individual and the family out by getting them back on track to a safe place to live and being there for one other. Locking the batterers up ...
