Argumentative Essay On Incarceration System

When it comes to mental illnesses, it is expected that the afflicted person receive help in order to combat their illness. You might expect the same for drug addiction but in cases including illegal substances, the “treatment” is anything but helpful. In the many readings we have had, it was brought up frequently that drug usage was a symptom of the current lifestyle separated from nature most of the human population lives. This lifestyle was described multiple times as being one that is confining or captivity we forced on ourselves. So it really doesn’t make much sense to be responding to the problem of drug offenses in America with prison sentences and few ways to treat the addiction that got the offenders there in the first place. “Drug offenders” referring to someone with a dependency on certain substances. These substances can range from alcohol, to prescription medication, to illegal substances. This person will have been convicted of a crime related to drugs such as selling, being in possession of, or stealing to acquire drugs or whatever substance they have a dependency on. This can also mean people who committed crimes while being under the influence of their substance of choice. …show more content…
Turns out incarceration not only does harm to those in its system but the public outside the prison walls as well. In the Wall Street Journal article “How Prisons Affect Society” Former journalist who currently works for Google in the Communications Department in Asia, Robin Moroney explains how some of the negatives that happen within prison walls don’t always stay there. Diseases that spawn easily in prison conditions are released into the general public. The most common of these diseases being HIV and hepatitis C (Chandler, Fletcher and Volkow), prisoners don’t always stay in prison so neither do the