Were you at the wrong place at the wrong time? Did you make a little mistake that was a first offense? Or you had a small glimpse of freedom and you took advantage of it? There’s so many factors as to why people get arrested, but overcrowding in jails has become a serious problem in America The US has the highest prison population in the entire world exceeding counties with more than double Americas population. Prison overcrowding occurs when the rate at which people are incarcerated exceeds the rate at which other prisoners are released or die, this raises a huge problem. Minor offense subjects are put in jail with sex offenders, serial murders, and psychopaths. Jails cost over 1 billion dollars for tax payers.
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Juvenile centers are known to have mostly African American men with a long background with drugs and or alcohol abuse, they tend to be placed in juvi for sexual charges. Juvenile inmates tend to be the ones the government works on trying to rehabilitate and help to change their actions before they turn eighteen and more to the jail or get released. According to the Justice Policy Institute, “Locking up a juvenile costs states an average of $407.58 per person per day and $148,767 per person per year when the most expensive option is used”. This means for each juvenile incarcerated the tax payers are hit with the large bill. There are around 500,000 juveniles brought in to a facilitation every year. Federal prisons are the worst when it comes to …show more content…
There are certain mental hospitals that also as jails the only way to be put away is to arrested. As the New York Times states “Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs and incarceration.” This means that a person can’t be held in cuffs and a jail cell with other inmates when they face serious mental issues. Not only is it a serious issue for safety of others but also the inmate its self. The price to keep the mental hospital prions running is around 39 billion dollars a
There are various types of …show more content…
Juvenile centers are known to have mostly African American men with a long background with drugs and or alcohol abuse, they tend to be placed in juvi for sexual charges. Juvenile inmates tend to be the ones the government works on trying to rehabilitate and help to change their actions before they turn eighteen and more to the jail or get released. According to the Justice Policy Institute, “Locking up a juvenile costs states an average of $407.58 per person per day and $148,767 per person per year when the most expensive option is used”. This means for each juvenile incarcerated the tax payers are hit with the large bill. There are around 500,000 juveniles brought in to a facilitation every year. Federal prisons are the worst when it comes to …show more content…
There are certain mental hospitals that also as jails the only way to be put away is to arrested. As the New York Times states “Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs and incarceration.” This means that a person can’t be held in cuffs and a jail cell with other inmates when they face serious mental issues. Not only is it a serious issue for safety of others but also the inmate its self. The price to keep the mental hospital prions running is around 39 billion dollars a