Police said Leslie Mitchell had cocaine, marijuana and both liquid and pill-form steroids in his apartment

Criminals are ordinary human beings who face certain circumstances which compels them to grow to be fraudulent and commit crime.  This troubles the society and destruction is caused thus many believe that people who break any infraction of law deserve punishment. However, some disagree and suggest that criminals, being normal human beings, need to be consulted and have to be preached in a certain manner.  ISP (Intensive Supervision Program) is a program which is run by the New Jersey State Judiciary that allows criminals to be released before time from prison and allows them to stay out so long as they tag along a set of guidelines.  Generally speaking, the guidelines include involvement of criminals in employment and curfews are imposed. Despite this, some ex prisoners turn into recidivist and continue to do their previous undesirable acts.  On March 7, 2012 in Vineland, an ex con was arrested on drug and weapons charges.  Leslie H. Mitchell, 43 years old, was accused of growing marijuana, possessing hand gun, selling cocaine and two types of steroids.  He had originally been accused of possessing more than five ounces of heroin on May 11, 2010 and was allowed into the ISP on January 27, 2011 after less than nine months of suffering in prison.  Even so, Mitchell had one desecration during this release and that is he possession of alcohol in April 2011 for which he was fined with $4630. Surprisingly, he had paid $4380 amount of the fine.  He was also required to be present at alcoholics’ unspecified meetings and had been attending. As said by the spokeswoman for the New Jersey State Judiciary, ISP had last visited Mitchell on March 3, 2012 and this person had been reported to the ISP on March 5, 2012. As a result, a planned visit was made to Mitchell home on March 7 by an officer and found eight small marijuana plants, cocaine, steroid pills, liquid steroids, drug paraphernalia, $3,590 and weapons after searching his apartment. Mitchell was put in the County Jail of Cumberland for he was bailed for $50,000. Similarly, seven bank robberies in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey were committed by a Carl Holliday, who was a police officer and was in ISP at the time of robbery. He was caught by the police and was sentenced last year a punishment of seven years to be in prison along with a fine of $22,000.  Needless to say, whether a criminal should be put in prison as a method of punishment or should be rehabilitated depends on the person because some criminals tend to learn a lesson while in jail and some tend to do better through community work.  To ensure security of our society, decisions regarding punishment should be made carefully taking in consideration the circumstances of each criminal.