Responsible Prison Reform: Article Analysis

1. An article “Responsible Prison Reform” falls under conservative on the political spectrum. The reason, I believe this article falls under conservative is because in the article Eli Lehrer talks about how once again, they are leading the way toward the strengthening the sentence rules and other strategies that augmented incarceration rate. Therefore, they should lead the way in rationally reducing the prison population where the incarceration should be changed. For example, in the article, Tom Bethell’s 1989 Washington Monthly cover story “ Criminals belong in jail,” where he talks about along with other liberal lawmaker, “the senator Joe Biden helped President Ronald Reagan enact major legislation related to the “War on drugs,” later helped Bill Clinton spend billions of federal dollars on hiring more police and building more …show more content…
more and more. I learned that many people who go to prison is very painful and is a big punishment to themselves. Offenders are being tortured very badly day by day. This system seems very unfair. I learned that putting criminals in these prisons might not be the best way to treat them and handle crimes. Many people are going to jail so that the society does not have to deal them which makes me think that is so unfair, it basically destroying their lives. From his article, I recognized that we might never be able to find a good way to handle the problem if the mass numbers of people are being put into prisons. There are many people who are being affected by the prison system, which seems like the society does not seem to care about them at all. This article definitely helped me learn that the prison system is not always the solution to the low crime rate, there are many other ways we can lower the