Topic 90: The Law (2) - Bài tập trắc nghiệm

🇬🇧 Nhà tù ở Anh – quá "nhẹ nhàng": “Well, I'm from the UK and although I'm lucky enough to have never been locked up, from all accounts the prison system is really soft. Inmates now have access to computers, Internet, TV and computer games. Prisoners can even earn wages for good behaviour. On top of that, it's easy to get hold of drugs which are brought in without any problems. Generally, it's thought that going inside is more of a holiday camp than a method of punishment. Some people actually prefer it to daily life outside and deliberately break the law to go to prison. At least in prison, you get a roof over your head; it's safe and warm, and you get regular meals.”

✨ Từ khóa: locked up, soft, inmates, get hold of drugs, holiday camp, a roof over your head, rehabilitate.

🇷🇺 Nhà tù Black Dolphin – Nga cực kỳ khắc nghiệt: “It is widely thought that the prison system in the UK does not rehabilitate people who break the law. In Russia's Black Dolphin, however, you will find that things are just the opposite. In Black Dolphin, every single inmate would say that if they ever get the chance to get out, they will never ever reoffend again. Prisoners are kept in tiny cells by themselves for almost twenty-three hours a day. No one ever escapes. It's freezing cold in the winter and the food is the worst you can ever imagine.”

✨ Từ khóa: rehabilitate, inmate, reoffend, tiny cells, freezing cold.

💀 Quan điểm về án tử hình: “In the UK, we abolished the death penalty long ago because there's always the chance that the person that's put to death may be innocent. All in all, an untold number of innocent people are executed. Imagine knowing you never committed the crime, but you're in every newspaper as guilty. One of the worst cases was Timothy Evans who was executed for the murder of his baby daughter. After his death, the serial killer John Christie was found to have done it. For me though, I think that if someone's crime is bad enough to warrant the death sentence, then actually execution is more of an escape than a punishment. I believe that they should spend their whole lives in prison where they should learn to understand what they did.”

✨ Từ khóa: abolished, death penalty, untold, executed, warrant, escape, death row, life sentences.