Question

How did Nelson Mandela transform from a 'law abiding citizen' to a 'criminal' ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Nelson Mandela once said “it is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails’’ and “a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones’

Prison is called ‘correction’ nowadays. The modern prison system is revolved on six Cc i.e. Custody, Care, Control, Correction, Cure and Community .The main purpose of the prison is to detain a person there and keep him away from a society for certain period because of his offensive behaviour. The society demands that the offender should be retrained and reformed in the correction, so he can join the society again as a law abiding citizen. When a citizen commits a crime or offence, he breaks the law of the state and violates the rights of an individual. Therefore in every criminal case the state is registered as a party (prosecutor) against the offender. The state stands with the complainant as guarantor and protector of the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. The concept of jail/correction in modern state is a place where the state machinery accepts a “love the sinner but hate the sin” policy and converts the captives into law abiding citizens. The state should treat the captives as students and teach them the value of deterrence, tolerance and mutual respect, sense of responsibility as a citizen, morality, humanity through reformative and therapeutic approach. Despite the seriousness of their crimes and heinous offences however, the loss of liberty is all the punishment they suffered.