Prisons Should Receive Budget Cuts In Prison

Budget cuts are affecting prisoners in many ways in the past few years. The ways that are showing dramatically are in educational programs, inmates safety, guards safety, tax payers, key programs, health care and population with overcrowding in many of these facilities. The health care insurance has been raised due to more inmates. Now with these many problems occurring in prisons are affected by the weak economy. Such as, prisoners are not getting fully educated with the low income of the prisons. Due to the crowded prisons, more money is distributed to food, water, clothing, and other essential needs. The excessive innovations of more cell building leads to unnecessary spending. If prisons had a set number of inmates less money would be spent …show more content…
This is bad because "The higher prison populations have a better chance of receiving budget cuts within education programs"(unanimous). This is because more tutors are being bought out to corrections centers to teach the inmates. Government agencies should spend more money on keeping prisoners out of prison so that they don’t have to waste it on the prisoners that come back to prison. If the government reduced the budget cuts, it would increase safety in prisons and the public. With this indefinitely helping out the prisons the government would see an increase of prisoners having more knowledge. With prisoners having a better education they would be more qualified for more jobs than they would have been before prison, depending upon the circumstances. This having an effect will show in long-term studies to prove that ex-cons will have a higher chance in the real world receiving jobs. Without the inmates receiving the education they deserve, they wont be able to learn anything and will have chance in the real world when they get out. When these programs were still active, inmates actually learned, and got legitimate degrees that will help them in the