Incarceration In Prisons

Far too many Americans are stuck behind bars. There are currently five times as many people incarcerated now than there were in 1970.The war on drug got out of control, meaning that many nonviolent people wound up in prison. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws led to a throw-away the key culture,with long,cruel and pointless destructive prison times.That has cause our prisons to be overcrowded. “Lots of people are having their life destroy, not because they have to,but because we have chosen to ignore a basic commit to justice and equality.”The previous sentence sums up how I see the justice system. Studies do not show any consistent relationship between incarceration rates and crimes rates.
The Obama administration has made criminal justice reform and the problem of mass incarceration a top policy issue since at least …show more content…
when they are finally rehabilitated,and release they face more challenges in our society. The National Employment Law Project points out that research suggests people require a combination of family support, community assistance, and economic opportunity to make different choices and stay out of the criminal justice system. Around 700,000 people are released from behind bars every year, and men with criminal records account for almost 34 percent of unemployed men between the ages of 25 and 54, a New York Times/CBS News/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found. “The drug war has devastated families and communities, and it is time for the healing to begin,” said Mr. Papa an inmate who spent 12 years in prison.The Justice Department is preparing to release roughly 6,000 inmates from federal prisons starting at the end of this month as part of an effort to ease overcrowding and roll back the harsh penalties given to nonviolent drug dealers in the 1980s and ’90s, according to federal law enforcement officials. Hopefully can bring justice to the inmates who deserve to be