Question 5 : Response for a Newspaper

Read the newspaper excerpt dated 3 March, 2013 taken from New Strait Times. You will then write your opinion as a response that to be sent to Viewpoint, a column where readers can share their thoughts.

What are prisoners? Who are them? Based on the dictionary meaning, prisoner is the person who is kept in the prison as the punishment.

In the article, the writer is talking about the education for prisoners that have many benefits not only for themselves but also toward the community and country. As for me, this is a good way in order to save our youths as long as they are our own assets for the future and so that we need to give them the second chance after they had made wrong.

As the community, we need to believe that people tend to change their behaviors once we give them chance to change. For example, when a guy has been release from the prison, the community usually prejudiced on this person. This can be seen when this guy has difficulties to get job. When he can’t get the job, this can make him to fall into the black world especially when he was offered by a wrong person for the job with high salary. This can make he falls into the wrong ways again and again. So, why not we help them to be like us?

I really support the government that opens the ways for this group of people to start their life from the early stage by giving them education and job opportunities. This will not only give benefits to them but also towards our beloved citizens and country in order to achieve our vision in the year of 2020.