Another psychological issue inmate’s face is the most serious of all in the rate of incarcerated suicide. Death by suicide is always a serious issue and that is no different when it comes to suicide under incarceration. In the corrections system, the suicide rate is double that of general population resulting in over 200 deaths per year. It is the leading cause of unnatural deaths in jail at 29 percent. (Frank, 2013) According to Laura Frank and Regina Aguirre, the top symptoms that are linked to suicide in prison are depression, anxiety, paranoia, medical induced problems; impulsivity, religious beliefs, and previous suicide attempts. Many of these symptoms can attribute to the overcrowding of the correctional system and the small quarters
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Incidentally, this is not by accident there are still signs today that African Americans are oppressed in a way that doesn’t blatantly say that they are being oppressed. While African Americans can see where they are placed and society and do their best to elude the grip of the law and still end up making up 40.2 percent of the U.S prison population while, only making up 6.5 percent of the U.S population. All this set up the ability for the government to take their rights away. By being convicted of a crime they lose their right to vote, they lose their 2nd amendment right and their ability to serve on a jury. While in overcrowded prisons they have their 8th amendment violated and become a victim on the 13th amendments loophole. The 13th amendment says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The 13th amendment loophole allows for large prison businesses to profit off the exploitation of the amendment itself and the victim of this unjust act being taken against African Americans. This starts with plea bargains that African Americans are told to take or they will be punished by the courts for not taking the deal avoiding the risk of more time this is an example of Grossman and Katz model of risk aversion. (Savitsky, 2012) The fact that our own justice system such a cycle as this hostile outside world created by the media then the bias within the police only to lead them to a plea bargain stealing away their rights is an abomination of the highest degree and needs to be
Incidentally, this is not by accident there are still signs today that African Americans are oppressed in a way that doesn’t blatantly say that they are being oppressed. While African Americans can see where they are placed and society and do their best to elude the grip of the law and still end up making up 40.2 percent of the U.S prison population while, only making up 6.5 percent of the U.S population. All this set up the ability for the government to take their rights away. By being convicted of a crime they lose their right to vote, they lose their 2nd amendment right and their ability to serve on a jury. While in overcrowded prisons they have their 8th amendment violated and become a victim on the 13th amendments loophole. The 13th amendment says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The 13th amendment loophole allows for large prison businesses to profit off the exploitation of the amendment itself and the victim of this unjust act being taken against African Americans. This starts with plea bargains that African Americans are told to take or they will be punished by the courts for not taking the deal avoiding the risk of more time this is an example of Grossman and Katz model of risk aversion. (Savitsky, 2012) The fact that our own justice system such a cycle as this hostile outside world created by the media then the bias within the police only to lead them to a plea bargain stealing away their rights is an abomination of the highest degree and needs to be