collecting criminals across the city

English as a Second Language New ESL Forum Member?
1

Could any one write a better sentence instead of

Some governments build prisons to collecting criminals across the city while some…

BR,
Swan

2

Prisons don’t collect prisoners.
What is the rest of the sentence?

3

I am trying to write a essay about different ways of decreasing crime rate in societies and intended to say just builing taugher and bigger prisons does not work to collect criminals across the cities.

4

Then use ‘hold’ rather than ‘collect’.