Crime happens to many people, many good people too. Throughout time, confinement has been becoming worse and worse, it’s a social problem that needs to be fixed. “Criminals” are sent to prison to be punished and to be prohibited from committing crimes again. Others that have gone to prison before may discourage others from breaking the law in order to avoid prison. Currently, almost two million people are in prisons and/or in jails and the majority of the people who are put in federal prisons were because of drugs. As for state prisons, the majority were put into prison because of violence. In “Trends in U.S. Corrections” a survey was taken during the time from 1925 till 2011 about the populations in state and federal prisons. In 1925 it was
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The population is continuously growing throughout the prisons in the United States. Davis mentions how the fastest growing groups in prisons are black females and native Americans. Since 1970, the amount of “incarcerated women in California” has doubled (684). That is the problem society faces today, that mass incarceration has affected the government’s social program. The American justice system is focusing on punishment that is profitable which causes the “political economy of prisons” to rely “on racialized assumptions of criminality” (684). It’s a practice of making racist assumption to arrest, convict, and sentence those who are colored. In You May Ask Yourself written by Dalton Conley describes how this “practice” is primary deviance is. As stated by Conley, primary deviance is how a person thinks and acts towards someone based on their deviant acts that were the cause of being confined. The political economy views colored people to be the source of the social problem of our time which exposes “racism, class bias, and the parasitic seduction of capitalist profit” …show more content…
Instead of punishing them or as Angela Davis discussed in her video of Prison Industrial Complex about people getting “thrown away” get to fulfil society social problems. The system believes that having people locked up is the solution of social problems in order to keep the imprisoned populations alive. The prison system looks at the situation as if someone has committed a felony, then the system just gives up on the convict. Not only do private companies have power over the prisoners, but they fund them as well. Its seems as if prisons are becoming more of a business than a place of punishment. The United States, in fact, pays more money for maintaining prisoners than sending students to school. When instead the system should be providing care and help to those who actually need it. So instead of spending tons of money on building more prisons for punishments just for the profit, institutions should provide solutions to the social problems they are facing. Private industrial complex “is the interest of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solution to economic, social and political problems”. Davis mentions a political prisoner who describes what prison labor is like which is technically like slave labor to the prisoners because there aren’t no strikes, no union
The population is continuously growing throughout the prisons in the United States. Davis mentions how the fastest growing groups in prisons are black females and native Americans. Since 1970, the amount of “incarcerated women in California” has doubled (684). That is the problem society faces today, that mass incarceration has affected the government’s social program. The American justice system is focusing on punishment that is profitable which causes the “political economy of prisons” to rely “on racialized assumptions of criminality” (684). It’s a practice of making racist assumption to arrest, convict, and sentence those who are colored. In You May Ask Yourself written by Dalton Conley describes how this “practice” is primary deviance is. As stated by Conley, primary deviance is how a person thinks and acts towards someone based on their deviant acts that were the cause of being confined. The political economy views colored people to be the source of the social problem of our time which exposes “racism, class bias, and the parasitic seduction of capitalist profit” …show more content…
Instead of punishing them or as Angela Davis discussed in her video of Prison Industrial Complex about people getting “thrown away” get to fulfil society social problems. The system believes that having people locked up is the solution of social problems in order to keep the imprisoned populations alive. The prison system looks at the situation as if someone has committed a felony, then the system just gives up on the convict. Not only do private companies have power over the prisoners, but they fund them as well. Its seems as if prisons are becoming more of a business than a place of punishment. The United States, in fact, pays more money for maintaining prisoners than sending students to school. When instead the system should be providing care and help to those who actually need it. So instead of spending tons of money on building more prisons for punishments just for the profit, institutions should provide solutions to the social problems they are facing. Private industrial complex “is the interest of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solution to economic, social and political problems”. Davis mentions a political prisoner who describes what prison labor is like which is technically like slave labor to the prisoners because there aren’t no strikes, no union