"When someone breaks the law, they are often sent to prison as a punishment. The punishment is that they lose their freedom. Depending on which law they broke, someone might be in jail or prison for anywhere from a few months to the rest of their life. The word for being sent to prison is "incarcerated." Losing their freedom is supposed to be the only punishment a person gets for breaking the law. However, most prisons have a lot of problems that make this punishment worse. Some people want to reform, or change, prisons to make them less dangerous, or unsafe, to live in"--