Prison Population: The growing business
“They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness).
America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the rate of incarcerated raises and according to Online paralegal degree, “2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States, ”. Moreover this affects mainly people who are economically disadvantaged. According to the book “Race to Incarcerate” by Marc Mauer, Mauer argues that America has used prison to punish the people and a racial disparity in our justice system is happening. In favor of Mauer is the author of “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie …show more content…
In the same line Casey Schutte the author of “Behind Bars, Forever” ultimately believes, “..kids will never again experience life outside an institution. All seventy-three of them are people of color and most have histories as victims of abuse or neglect” (Schutte 41). In other words, Schutte believes that putting people behind bars comes with many factors. Including those young lives who spent most of their lives behinds bars for something they did. These children will never get the chance to express life again. The reasons Schutte remind us is because these children are there because of the color of their skin, they have been abused by family members or other people and pushed away, so they find comfortable in places they shouldn’t and end up in jail
“They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness).
America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the rate of incarcerated raises and according to Online paralegal degree, “2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States, ”. Moreover this affects mainly people who are economically disadvantaged. According to the book “Race to Incarcerate” by Marc Mauer, Mauer argues that America has used prison to punish the people and a racial disparity in our justice system is happening. In favor of Mauer is the author of “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie …show more content…
In the same line Casey Schutte the author of “Behind Bars, Forever” ultimately believes, “..kids will never again experience life outside an institution. All seventy-three of them are people of color and most have histories as victims of abuse or neglect” (Schutte 41). In other words, Schutte believes that putting people behind bars comes with many factors. Including those young lives who spent most of their lives behinds bars for something they did. These children will never get the chance to express life again. The reasons Schutte remind us is because these children are there because of the color of their skin, they have been abused by family members or other people and pushed away, so they find comfortable in places they shouldn’t and end up in jail