Prisons are designed to house convicted, adult felons serving a sentence of one year or more. Without prisons there would be chaos throughout the streets. Prisons are mostly new to criminal justice and corrections. Without prison systems there would be capital punishment and public humiliation. There needed to be a more humane and efficient way to punish and reform criminals. Over the next hundred years prison systems evolved with more and more policies and practices. Over years the public help the prison systems to develop into what it is today. There has been tremendous increase in the role of prison systems in the criminal justice system over the past several years. Long sentences are self-defeating in regard to rehabilitation. Most offenders
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Because of their dangerousness, sin some offenders will require extensive incarceration in secure institutions. Most inmates are not mentally ill but suffer from a variety of educational, medical, maturational, economic, and interpersonal handicaps that are seldom reduced or resolved in prison. Inmates must be given the opportunity and capability to earn a living wage to make due their victims and support the families. The pay for inmates is too low. The rates of pay should be at least the minimum wage for similar labor. The private sector should be used to provide training and work programs that are realistic to develop employable workers at the end of their sentence. The inmates want the job to keep them busy. Staying locked up in a cell all day long will make someone go crazy. Just having the chance to leave their cell and make a little bit of money it worth it to the inmate. They will even behave more to keep their job. Because they know if the inmate does anything wrong they lose their job at the …show more content…
Judges, district attorneys, state- and county-level politicians, police forces, prison-guard unions, federal agencies and private firms that build and run prisons: all have contributed to the rise of mass incarceration, and many benefit from it. In rural parts of America prisons are now the biggest employers in many towns. The extraordinary growth in the prison population started with the war on drugs begun by Richard Nixon. The first state laws to bring in mandatory sentencing for drug crimes were introduced in New York. During Ronald Reagan’s administration both the federal government and many states introduced much tougher penalties for dealing crack cocaine than for dealing powder cocaine, a move that enforced strong racial biases on
Because of their dangerousness, sin some offenders will require extensive incarceration in secure institutions. Most inmates are not mentally ill but suffer from a variety of educational, medical, maturational, economic, and interpersonal handicaps that are seldom reduced or resolved in prison. Inmates must be given the opportunity and capability to earn a living wage to make due their victims and support the families. The pay for inmates is too low. The rates of pay should be at least the minimum wage for similar labor. The private sector should be used to provide training and work programs that are realistic to develop employable workers at the end of their sentence. The inmates want the job to keep them busy. Staying locked up in a cell all day long will make someone go crazy. Just having the chance to leave their cell and make a little bit of money it worth it to the inmate. They will even behave more to keep their job. Because they know if the inmate does anything wrong they lose their job at the …show more content…
Judges, district attorneys, state- and county-level politicians, police forces, prison-guard unions, federal agencies and private firms that build and run prisons: all have contributed to the rise of mass incarceration, and many benefit from it. In rural parts of America prisons are now the biggest employers in many towns. The extraordinary growth in the prison population started with the war on drugs begun by Richard Nixon. The first state laws to bring in mandatory sentencing for drug crimes were introduced in New York. During Ronald Reagan’s administration both the federal government and many states introduced much tougher penalties for dealing crack cocaine than for dealing powder cocaine, a move that enforced strong racial biases on