For serious crime and those in which the client exhibits severe habilitation or psychological problems:

• longer prison sentences
• removal of parole and replacement with cycle breaker option

For less serious crime:

• establish prison factories/businesses/operations
• removal of parole and replacement with work incentive

As society progresses, new solutions have to be found to the problem of crime and punishment.

There has been much study on human behaviour over the past 50 years, resulting in what appears to many to be a weak response to crime from social scientists and so called experts. Often many resources are poured into attempting to rehabilitate the offender while the victim is largely ignored. Upbringing is cited as a prime excuse, and the concept of \'cycles of behaviour\' is central to discussion.

According to the latest Corrections Department figures, which takes the price of new prisons into account, it costs over $92,000 a year - or $253 a day - to keep a prisoner in jail. New prisons boast underfloor heating and LCD TVs. Where is this leading to? What should inmates be doing inside prison? Should they be sitting around doing nothing? Can we force them to do anything, after all, they ended up there by not adhering to social requirements?

It has been shown that positive reinforcers are superior at behaviour modification than are negative reinforcers. The latter underlie the whole principle of punishment: that it should be a negative experience which acts as an aversive stimulus to prevent a repeat of the unsocial behaviour. While imprisonment cannot be devoid of negative experiences, the process of behaviour modification within the restricted environment of the prison can be led by positive reinforcers.

Prison inmates can be roughly divided into two groups:

1. Serious offenders with habilitation or psychological problems.
   The Corrections Department is the nation\'s biggest employer of Psychologists. Crime and psychological disorder go hand in hand. Many offenders are merely repeating behaviours they have learnt through their upbringing (cycles of behaviour). Their crimes might involve murder, manslaughter, paedophilia, armed robbery, assault etc.
2. Minor offenders who have a good concept of legal and illegal, but chose to take a risk and break the law. Their crimes might involve theft, fraud, criminal negligence, bigamy, fines default etc.

Out of this, four different types of prisons are proposed:

1. First Prison, a conventional prison where convicts first go to after sentencing. They either stay here and serve out their term in the conventional manner, or respond to the positive reinforcement of a reduced term and better care if they go into one of two other processes, the Factory Prison or the Cycle Breaker System.
2. The Factory Prison. If a convict is suitable and succeeds in making an application in front of an independent judicial panel, they may be allocated to a Factory Prison at a location of their choice. For many small crimes this may happen at sentencing.
3. The Cycler Breaker Prison. This is the first step in the cycle breaker process which is aimed at breaking cycles of behaviour and attempting to deal with psychological disorder. This is predicted to be the most expensive prison of all, involving good management and close pyschological monitoring.
4. The Reform Prison. This is a minimum security prison to which convicts move once they have been deemed to have had some success in the cycle breaker process. The aim here is to habilitate convicts into productive members of society.

The last three types of prison are outlined in the following pages.