The United States incarcerates its citizens at a higher rate than any other country in the world. For decades, more and more prisons have been built, and they have been continually filled. In the current crime and punishment model, the focus is put on making punishments severe enough to deter people from committing crimes. We know that as crime rates have gone down, the prison population has continued to skyrocket. I don’t think enough of the public has a concept how much the death penalty costs to execute. Further, I doubt that they are fully aware of how many wrongfully convicted Americans have perished by fault in our
The United States incarcerates its citizens at a higher rate than any other country in the world. For decades, more and more prisons have been built, and they have been continually filled. In the current crime and punishment model, the focus is put on making punishments severe enough to deter people from committing crimes. We know that as crime rates have gone down, the prison population has continued to skyrocket. I don’t think enough of the public has a concept how much the death penalty costs to execute. Further, I doubt that they are fully aware of how many wrongfully convicted Americans have perished by fault in our