Race To Incarceration Summary

In the 1790’s it was the beginning of incarceration. The “Penitentiary House” being the beginning, which had a capacity of 16 cells, and was also the beginning of an experiment with day and night solidarity confinement. Therefore, the Eastern State Penitentiary was the first institution that was built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many leaders believed that crime was the result of the environment, and that the solitude will make the criminal regretful and penitent. In this book “Race to Incarceration” by Michelle Alexandria one of Alexandria’s main discussions is about mass incarceration and the reason for it. Around the 1790’s, jail was mainly used to hold defendants awaiting for trial. After conviction, it heavily depended on the individual’s …show more content…
It may consist of services that include income support, health services, and therapeutic services to design to provide parenting education, mental health services, transportation, legal services, nutrition, and many more. Some of these services depend on the resources available in the community and extent to which the clients can gain access to available services. Some social interventions are directly administered by state agencies and some services are funded by government agencies but are provided by public or private services. There is other services that rely on local voluntary agencies .To make our communities safer we’d have to invest more resources. Intervention’s is a great way to reduce crime rates rather than putting people behind bars but it takes money or funding to provide these resources. The lower-income population may need more social interventions to get the help they may need. For example providing more parenting education can reduce injury or death child accident rates as well as abuse and neglect of child reports. Providing parenting education can enhance child development and well-being. Also providing more social interventions one being providing substance abuse treatment can reduce drug use and crime. Alexandria mentioned in the book that “War on Drugs” affects mostly low-income people of color who have little access to treatment. Instead of a massive “War on Drugs” we should invest more on community-based prevention and treatment programs. As mentioned in this book it is believed that the rising in imprisonment in the 1990’s may have been responsible for the decline of violent crime, but in fact there may have been other reasons. The healthy economy in the 1990’s created more job opportunities especially for those in low-wage labor market. This could have affected the