According to the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice, the incarceration rate of East Harlem is almost 3 times higher than the Manhattan rate and the assault rate is of East Harlem is more than twice the citywide rate
According to the mapping center, in East Harlem, 1 in every 20 males has been to prison and a large portion of the convicts will come back to the same swath of East Harlem between third and park avenue. In order to keep East Harlem lawbreakers imprisoned, the state spent more than $3.5 million annually. The United states spend over 80 billion on incarceration each year. People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and others health conditions that need to address and solve.
Unfortunately, …show more content…
It is the process by which people are swept into the criminal justice system, branded criminals and felons, locked up for longer periods of time than most other countries in the world who incarcerate people who have been convicted of crimes, and then released into a permanent second-class status in which they are stripped of basic civil and human rights, like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to public …show more content…
These factors can affect the health of the residents especially if they are lacking the resources necessary to take good care of their health. Chronic anxiety, fear of a community is caused by racial profiling which is the result of a bias-based policing. This can also affect the individual living in the community. Economic stress can also lead to mental health high blood pressure which highly affect the resident of East Harlem. Mass incarceration is allowed but certain policies and these policies disrupt families, create dysfunctional homes, and create barriers to access the resources that are available in the
According to the mapping center, in East Harlem, 1 in every 20 males has been to prison and a large portion of the convicts will come back to the same swath of East Harlem between third and park avenue. In order to keep East Harlem lawbreakers imprisoned, the state spent more than $3.5 million annually. The United states spend over 80 billion on incarceration each year. People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and others health conditions that need to address and solve.
Unfortunately, …show more content…
It is the process by which people are swept into the criminal justice system, branded criminals and felons, locked up for longer periods of time than most other countries in the world who incarcerate people who have been convicted of crimes, and then released into a permanent second-class status in which they are stripped of basic civil and human rights, like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to public …show more content…
These factors can affect the health of the residents especially if they are lacking the resources necessary to take good care of their health. Chronic anxiety, fear of a community is caused by racial profiling which is the result of a bias-based policing. This can also affect the individual living in the community. Economic stress can also lead to mental health high blood pressure which highly affect the resident of East Harlem. Mass incarceration is allowed but certain policies and these policies disrupt families, create dysfunctional homes, and create barriers to access the resources that are available in the