One in 100 United States adults are incarcerated. The United States has the highest record of incarcerated inmates, locking inmates up to eight times the amount of Canada and Europe. Prisons in America are so overcrowded, 95% percent of inmates are released, often bringing the violence back into society (Chamberlin). In the United States prisons and jails now holding 2.4 million inmates roughly - the highest incarceration rate of any free country (Petersilia). When the inmates are released and they have no jobs they have nowhere to go so this is a big factor in repeat offenders, but those who go through intensive drug treatment programs in prison are less likely to relapse outside of it. Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high
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There were people that were homeless and jobless. So people started to seek other opportunities. People were blaming the environment and the lack of education on why they sought drugs and violence” (Edge 15). In the early years of institutionalized incarceration, U.S. leaders after the American Revolution looked carefully at colonial laws and thought about ways to improve them. Missing church on Sundays was a crime until, U.S. leaders looked carefully at colonial laws. The United States Congress established an investigative committee to consider "milder punishments for certain crimes for which infamous and capital punishments are now inflicted” said Keller. It was largely on pragmatic grounds that Jefferson, helping to revise Virginia's statutes in 1776, proposed a bill to eliminate the death penalty for many crimes. "On the subject of the Criminal law," he wrote of the legislative debates, "all were agreed, that the punishment of death should be abolished, except for treason and murder; and that, for other felonies, should be substituted hard labor in the public works." His measure lost by a single vote. Others had at least as much concern for principle as for practice
There were people that were homeless and jobless. So people started to seek other opportunities. People were blaming the environment and the lack of education on why they sought drugs and violence” (Edge 15). In the early years of institutionalized incarceration, U.S. leaders after the American Revolution looked carefully at colonial laws and thought about ways to improve them. Missing church on Sundays was a crime until, U.S. leaders looked carefully at colonial laws. The United States Congress established an investigative committee to consider "milder punishments for certain crimes for which infamous and capital punishments are now inflicted” said Keller. It was largely on pragmatic grounds that Jefferson, helping to revise Virginia's statutes in 1776, proposed a bill to eliminate the death penalty for many crimes. "On the subject of the Criminal law," he wrote of the legislative debates, "all were agreed, that the punishment of death should be abolished, except for treason and murder; and that, for other felonies, should be substituted hard labor in the public works." His measure lost by a single vote. Others had at least as much concern for principle as for practice