Tolerance in our justice system is mistaken for weakness because of luxuries, stability, and sentence cutting to maintain budget (Smith). Today in American 's face a big problem with trying to figure out the best way of justice for criminals who have committed crimes to innocent individuals. The problem is that we all have different hearts on what we feel is necessary punishment. About 12% of people believe prison should be used as a deterrent to criminals (Friedman2008), 55% of people believe prison be used as punishment (Friedman 2008), and 30% of people believe prison should be used as a rehabilitation (Friedman2008). The question just always comes to think that is it really worth housing serious violent offenders costing about 20 thousand
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Somehow we have got it all confused because the American justice system incarcerates more people per capita than anywhere in the world and has also had the highest incarceration rate since the 80 's but on the other hand the prison population has quadrupled since then also (Harahan). These criminals are obviously not learning from this method of justice and way of bringing them back to normal life. More than 2/3 of all ex-offenders are re-arrested in 3 years (Friedman2008) or less most of the time because of the charge as a previous conviction. When inmates get to do things like meet President Obama, when he took a tour of a high maximum security prison in Oklahoma, then something is wrong with the system (Escodebo). I mean seriously, I haven 't got to meet the president and you probably haven 't either. Last year California State Prison spent over 11 million dollars in dermatologist appointments and medical treatment for inmates that needed such …show more content…
In the prison system this is what will help the whole system work better and more smoothly (Friedman2008). Between the 1800’s and 1900’s more than 75% of the United States prison inmates were involved in productive labor (Friedman2008) and this is also when the homicide rate was at an all time low. This would mean it actually worked to make the inmates work for what they have. Its definitely the most beneficial thing for an inmate (Bidas). Although 80% of the prisoners wage must be donated to victims ' rights organization (Friedman2008) to help for some damages that have possibly happened during the crimes they have
Somehow we have got it all confused because the American justice system incarcerates more people per capita than anywhere in the world and has also had the highest incarceration rate since the 80 's but on the other hand the prison population has quadrupled since then also (Harahan). These criminals are obviously not learning from this method of justice and way of bringing them back to normal life. More than 2/3 of all ex-offenders are re-arrested in 3 years (Friedman2008) or less most of the time because of the charge as a previous conviction. When inmates get to do things like meet President Obama, when he took a tour of a high maximum security prison in Oklahoma, then something is wrong with the system (Escodebo). I mean seriously, I haven 't got to meet the president and you probably haven 't either. Last year California State Prison spent over 11 million dollars in dermatologist appointments and medical treatment for inmates that needed such …show more content…
In the prison system this is what will help the whole system work better and more smoothly (Friedman2008). Between the 1800’s and 1900’s more than 75% of the United States prison inmates were involved in productive labor (Friedman2008) and this is also when the homicide rate was at an all time low. This would mean it actually worked to make the inmates work for what they have. Its definitely the most beneficial thing for an inmate (Bidas). Although 80% of the prisoners wage must be donated to victims ' rights organization (Friedman2008) to help for some damages that have possibly happened during the crimes they have