Economics And The Prison System

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I chose to discuss american economics and the prison system with the analysis of the positive and negative impact on the system, I chose this because recently my cousin has been taken into custody of the Arkansas police. We are not rich but we are not poor. We are the lower middle class and I feel like the economy and the incomes of the population has great importance to the prison system. Since the prison systems have been tougher on crimes there have been more people incarcerated.
The law enforcement has been arresting a large amount of people in the past few years. Statistically speaking a lot of those people are living in poverty “ Low income individuals are more likely than high income individuals to be victims of crime”(Hamilton crime).

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