Crime Abusing Society

The United States of America has nearly 2.2 million incarcerated individuals. As years go by that number keeps increasing, not only because of the crime rate increasing but also from private prison companies making giants of profit from people being incarcerated. According to researches the two major private prison companies received alone three billion dollars in revenue each year. These companies are knows as the CCA and the GEO group. The more people are behind bars the more money these companies profit from. Another company that caught my attention was the Judicial Correction Services, basically a collection company. These companies are just abusing the individuals in our society. It doesn’t make any sense to me how they say, “Being poor …show more content…
In my opinion, race still matters in the United States. In the environment of crime and criminal justice it matters even more For example, in North Charleston, South Carolina the death of Walter Scott shot in the back while unarmed. Scenarios like the one of Scott just make the society worst. Many people were furious and became more violent towards cops because of incidents like this one. Now we find more of this situation happening more than ever, especially in communities of color. America just needs to come together and find ways to help racialized communities do better. These communities are less likely to find jobs and likely live in poor conditions. Racialized groups faces many encounters in their everyday life and fall below in life. This means they are more likely to live and work in poor circumstances, and just be targets of police …show more content…
After watching small video clips last week in class I was very impressed with the programs, housing first and the lead work. I believe that if we had more programs for people that come out of jail to reestablish their life it will benefit society. A lot of these individuals serve time in jail over nonsense and are labeled for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately the rich just want to get richer and that’s why many states don’t have these types of benefits for people. Many of companies make tons of revenue of people going to jail, it will be to their disadvantage if we place more programs to like lead work and housing first. A lot of these folks just need someone to guide them and be with them at all times. I as an American will love to see these programs incorporate in each state. This will create more professional jobs, such as, social workers, case managers, physiologist, etc. If we have more opportunity like this I believe that our crime, homeless, racism rate will drop