How To Keep Inmates In Prison

The United States has been on top for the number of inmates that are incarcerated in jails and prisons. In 2009, there was 1.6 million men and women that were incarcerated in either prison or jail. The correctional system has become an economic issue; moreover, the funds that are going towards the correctional system is too much to burden the criminal justice system. Because of this determined issue, it becomes hard to keep inmates in jail or prison and continue giving what they need. As I go on in this essay my focus is to explain on how inmates are put into the system and where they are sent to for crimes they have committed and how an issue it has become to keep these inmates healthy and incarcerated.

To begin, I read about how a young man named Ben Watson, a 26-year-old Caucasian man, was facing a 5 to 7 years’ sentence to …show more content…
He killed 2 victims in a car accident because he was drunk and ran a red light. He was conscious after the accident for what he did and pleaded guilty and that would give him the advantage to having an easy trial than a rather difficult one. He was later put through the classifying and was assigned to what prison he would be sent to and not any random prison, but the right one for him after being sentenced. My input for what prison he was probably sent to would have been a less maximum security prison because of his situation and his crime he committed. Individuals like Ben Watson go through the same process and put into incarceration; moreover, there are 7 different types of security prisons. The highest-level security prison is the “Supermax Prisons” which is or those that are “exceedingly dangerous” and has committed a brutal crime ( ). For an example, those that are sent to these specific prisons