Prison or community services (main body 2) In the second place, keeping all criminals in prison would come at a huge cost to the governments. For example, they need to allocate a large quantity of money for the needs of prisoners, such as food and cloth and prison guards training and their salary expenses must be considered as well. In addition, looking at it from a sociologist point of view, keeping all criminals without considering the level of their crime results in a tremendous and irreparable consequence to society. As statistical information shows a high incidence of crime in countries with an outdated judiciary system, this point of view has been reinforced that defendants who are kept in prison would sense a feeling of alienation from the society after the prison time and this subject led to keep them more far away and committing more crimes.