Prison is basically isolation from society, isolation for people who’ve lost their way and did something wrong on the way to finding it. But the actual question states, “Do I think they should change the way they sentence criminals? It depends who and what are you changing the policy for. Is it to make everything easier and more efficient or is it just to give certain criminals more time than they need. people think racism comes into effect when the law is involved. Over the years, the feud going on between African Americans and correctional officers has become more and more disorganized over a long period of time. To begin, the law and the justice system has been around for a while. Some may say the system is either
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Rape and sexual abuse are rampant, and tens of thousands of people are held in solitary confinement, in circumstances condemned by the United Nations as torture.” This example shows, how people were abused and tortured. When it said “Rape and sexual abuse are rampant……” means that the amount of rape and sexual abuse is out of control. Also, under some circumstances, prisoners are isolated and condemned to solitary confinement controlled by the United Nations. The local news is always saying how the current justice system is being improved, but yet I see no improvement. In the article “Mass incarceration is a horrible failure” by David Soares, he mentioned how they made a prison alternative which has proven to be really helpful, for example, “Diversion programs, which identify effective alternatives to imprisonment for some people, have a strong track record of success around the country.” This conveys that the new alternative to imprisonment has been successful with proof to show for it. Upon release, 75% of inmates are either returned to jail or dead, so why can’t the current justice system use some improvement. Certain programs and groups are working together to reduce the size of mass incarceration, for example, “Diversion programs have taken root in many communities, and together with progressive policing strategies, are …show more content…
For people who have committed crimes, the consequences for crimes committed have been effective in the outcome. If the Justice system is considering changing the policy, whose to say that crime won’t increase, for example, “There is no question that crime rates will increase if sentencing reform provides large numbers of criminals with early release from prison and requires shorter sentences when they re-offend.” This conveys, if the sentencing policy changed, that doesn’t mean the crime rate will decrease. It just means criminals will probably get less time than they really deserve. There've been proof that crime is determined to increase with this new reformed way of sentencing, for example, “The sad truth is that the crime increases enabled by this type of sentencing reform will result in a wildly inappropriate number of murder, rape, robbery and drug addiction victims in urban minority communities, the very people supporters of reform say they want to help.” This shows that if the crime policy were to change the rate of crimes committed in urban minority communities will surely increase due to
Rape and sexual abuse are rampant, and tens of thousands of people are held in solitary confinement, in circumstances condemned by the United Nations as torture.” This example shows, how people were abused and tortured. When it said “Rape and sexual abuse are rampant……” means that the amount of rape and sexual abuse is out of control. Also, under some circumstances, prisoners are isolated and condemned to solitary confinement controlled by the United Nations. The local news is always saying how the current justice system is being improved, but yet I see no improvement. In the article “Mass incarceration is a horrible failure” by David Soares, he mentioned how they made a prison alternative which has proven to be really helpful, for example, “Diversion programs, which identify effective alternatives to imprisonment for some people, have a strong track record of success around the country.” This conveys that the new alternative to imprisonment has been successful with proof to show for it. Upon release, 75% of inmates are either returned to jail or dead, so why can’t the current justice system use some improvement. Certain programs and groups are working together to reduce the size of mass incarceration, for example, “Diversion programs have taken root in many communities, and together with progressive policing strategies, are …show more content…
For people who have committed crimes, the consequences for crimes committed have been effective in the outcome. If the Justice system is considering changing the policy, whose to say that crime won’t increase, for example, “There is no question that crime rates will increase if sentencing reform provides large numbers of criminals with early release from prison and requires shorter sentences when they re-offend.” This conveys, if the sentencing policy changed, that doesn’t mean the crime rate will decrease. It just means criminals will probably get less time than they really deserve. There've been proof that crime is determined to increase with this new reformed way of sentencing, for example, “The sad truth is that the crime increases enabled by this type of sentencing reform will result in a wildly inappropriate number of murder, rape, robbery and drug addiction victims in urban minority communities, the very people supporters of reform say they want to help.” This shows that if the crime policy were to change the rate of crimes committed in urban minority communities will surely increase due to