Argumentative Essay On Incarceration

In the United States, we incarcerate a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world. I think that there are various reasons as to the way our incarceration rates have begun to rise in the late 1907s and has risen to record highs by the early 2000’s. There are many purposes of punishment. One of the immediate things that come to mind is the war on drugs for the increase in incarceration rate. Also the harsher sentences for different races than white. Looking deeper at who to blame for the increase in incarceration rate I would have to blame the prosecutors. Prosecutors are supposed to protect all they inevitably lead to punishment. And for some reason the only to punish for most complex social problems in prisons. They believe that if someone breaks the law, they should be prosecuted viewing everyone is guilty if not for this crime probably something else (Abbe, 2001) In order to reduce the …show more content…
Because they haven’t been making that many changes to make things better. If they manage to improve prosecution interrogation techniques that would definitely create some changes. As the cause-lawyering socio-legal movement is impressive. By using the law as a means of creating social changes in addition to a means of helping individual clients (Etienne, 2014). They pursue ends and ideals also humanizing the defendant in the process. These two things would definitely also decrease the plea bargaining acceptance rate. If more people feel they will get a fair trial with the help of other then they will likely not take the plea bargained offered to them. Anyway is our criminal justice system really that great if we have higher incarceration rates. If I could change one thing about how the criminal justice systems functions it would have to be the prosecutors. Who knows maybe by making one of these changes our criminal justice system would be operating