Prison Population: The growing business
“They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness).
America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the rate of incarcerated raises and according to Online paralegal degree, “2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States, ”. Moreover this affects mainly people who are economically disadvantaged. According to the book “Race to Incarcerate” by Marc Mauer, Mauer argues that America has used prison to punish the people and a racial disparity in our justice system is happening. In favor of Mauer is the author of “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie Kerness, she talks about the truth behind bars, the abuse and torture prisoners in the U.S experience by using testimonies from inmates. Kerness also talks about her experience as a human rights advocate for prisons and how she deals with human rights violations that happen all across America especially in prison. "Contracting For Performance: Restructuring The Private Prison Market” by Kyle contends with evidence that restructuring the private prison systems will help to provide better rehabilitative opportunities for those incarcerated rather than simply doing away with the system while they are behind bars because it provides prisoners with opportunities like jobs. After all the article claims private prisons should be run by private corporations. Ultimately private corporations and the rate of innocent people behinds bars prevent our people from flourishing and should be examined by our government therefore, there should be a less oppressive criminal justice that will end this issue across America. All three articles explain how the prisons work behind bars the only difference is the authors’ express their ideas differently but we can see how alike and different they are. In his book, “Race to Incarcerate” by the executive director of the sentencing project Mauer, is a book written to focus on the cruel sentencing practices that happen in prisons and how people view and think about our criminal justice by using graphics to explain it. The book was designed to get more people who aren’t aware of the issue to be fully aware. Therefore this is a provoking topic to many Mauer maintains that “... the more fundamental problem is that we have come to rely on the criminal justice system as our primary approach to social problems, particularly in low-income communities of color...while drug users and sellers in middle income communities largely escape the clutches of the justice system” (Mauer 14). In making this comment, Mauer urges us to pay attention to how much trust we are giving to our criminal justice because as a result we have an issue of mixing race and class together. It shouldn’t have to be this way, because we are only helping private corporations to raise their business while they gain more power out of it. As a result it’s a reason why there are so many people behind bars, Similarly in “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie Kerness was a written peer reviewed article on the social justice where Kerness express her feelings as a humans right advocated for people in …show more content…
In the same line Casey Schutte the author of “Behind Bars, Forever” ultimately believes, “..kids will never again experience life outside an institution. All seventy-three of them are people of color and most have histories as victims of abuse or neglect” (Schutte 41). In other words, Schutte believes that putting people behind bars comes with many factors. Including those young lives who spent most of their lives behinds bars for something they did. These children will never get the chance to express life again. The reasons Schutte remind us is because these children are there because of the color of their skin, they have been abused by family members or other people and pushed away, so they find comfortable in places they shouldn’t and end up in jail
“They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness).
America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the rate of incarcerated raises and according to Online paralegal degree, “2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States, ”. Moreover this affects mainly people who are economically disadvantaged. According to the book “Race to Incarcerate” by Marc Mauer, Mauer argues that America has used prison to punish the people and a racial disparity in our justice system is happening. In favor of Mauer is the author of “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie Kerness, she talks about the truth behind bars, the abuse and torture prisoners in the U.S experience by using testimonies from inmates. Kerness also talks about her experience as a human rights advocate for prisons and how she deals with human rights violations that happen all across America especially in prison. "Contracting For Performance: Restructuring The Private Prison Market” by Kyle contends with evidence that restructuring the private prison systems will help to provide better rehabilitative opportunities for those incarcerated rather than simply doing away with the system while they are behind bars because it provides prisoners with opportunities like jobs. After all the article claims private prisons should be run by private corporations. Ultimately private corporations and the rate of innocent people behinds bars prevent our people from flourishing and should be examined by our government therefore, there should be a less oppressive criminal justice that will end this issue across America. All three articles explain how the prisons work behind bars the only difference is the authors’ express their ideas differently but we can see how alike and different they are. In his book, “Race to Incarcerate” by the executive director of the sentencing project Mauer, is a book written to focus on the cruel sentencing practices that happen in prisons and how people view and think about our criminal justice by using graphics to explain it. The book was designed to get more people who aren’t aware of the issue to be fully aware. Therefore this is a provoking topic to many Mauer maintains that “... the more fundamental problem is that we have come to rely on the criminal justice system as our primary approach to social problems, particularly in low-income communities of color...while drug users and sellers in middle income communities largely escape the clutches of the justice system” (Mauer 14). In making this comment, Mauer urges us to pay attention to how much trust we are giving to our criminal justice because as a result we have an issue of mixing race and class together. It shouldn’t have to be this way, because we are only helping private corporations to raise their business while they gain more power out of it. As a result it’s a reason why there are so many people behind bars, Similarly in “Torture in U.S. Prisons” by Bonnie Kerness was a written peer reviewed article on the social justice where Kerness express her feelings as a humans right advocated for people in …show more content…
In the same line Casey Schutte the author of “Behind Bars, Forever” ultimately believes, “..kids will never again experience life outside an institution. All seventy-three of them are people of color and most have histories as victims of abuse or neglect” (Schutte 41). In other words, Schutte believes that putting people behind bars comes with many factors. Including those young lives who spent most of their lives behinds bars for something they did. These children will never get the chance to express life again. The reasons Schutte remind us is because these children are there because of the color of their skin, they have been abused by family members or other people and pushed away, so they find comfortable in places they shouldn’t and end up in jail