Incarceration

This article explains how prisons have changed over the past few years. It also explains what the government has done to change this. There has been a “mass incarceration” as the author states. This means that there has been a massive increase in the amount of people in prison. Since there has been a spike in these numbers, it has caused an overcrowding of prisons. This causes taxes to raise in order for more facilities to be built. Many liberals are concerned that the minorities are being…

In 1995 the stock of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) went up 400%, the reason for the rise in stock was a direct correlation with the rise of crime and incarceration. People were buying stocks in crime and incarceration and the CCA and other private prison 's profits were skyrocketing. Private prisons have no incentive to decrease crime because it would decrease their profits. They would even compromise the safety of inmates, staff and the community by minimizing cost of staff,…

appearance of disparity, continues to occur. The first notable contributors to the growing incarceration rates is the judicial system itself; comprised of laws, those that hold up the laws, prosecute the laws, and sentence based upon the laws. Over the past 40 years there has been an increase in statutes and statute enforcement throughout the United States. This increase can be directly related to the number of incarcerations now being seen. Also, there have been increased statues on particular…

debated topics in recent history. The United States spends around $80 billion a year keeping individuals locked up and has the world’s highest incarceration rate (ACLU, 2017). With the current presidential administration’s promises of tough-on-crime policies, the cost of jailing offenders will only increase. Lawmakers should focus on ways to inhibit mass incarceration rather than adding to it. One preventative measure to reduce the amount of inmates is to implement education in prisons.The lack…

statement stands true to popular America today. Living in a country nicknamed the land of the free, it becomes hard to accept that one is living in a country of consistent crime and punishment. At face value, a person-blame approach may reflect the incarceration issue on poverty, minorities, or laziness within individuals. With further evidence, one will have the ability to come to the conclusion that as a whole, America has created a country where minorities must fear imprisonment due to…

Moreover, the U.S judicial system has created a worldwide incarceration rate lead with a formidable colossus in confinement. In fact, the policy reforms that increased the rate of incarceration is the anti-drug reform and the sentencing reform that has negatively impacted the economy by quadrupling its institutionalized population from eight hundred thousand in 1970 to four million inmates in 2008 according to Carla J Virlee author of "Offenders In The Community: Reshaping Sentencing And…

lead to the creation of private prisons. Private prisons were created to improve the system, yet these institutions promote mass incarceration, sacrifice quality of care, lack in cost benefits, and threaten inmate safety. The promotion of mass incarceration from the private prison industry is fueled by the direct monetary benefits from mass incarceration. Mass incarceration refers to the fact that the United…

Due to the fact that nearly half (48%) of inmates in federal prison were serving time for drug offenses in 2011 and over 1 trillion dollars have been spent on the war on drugs, drug crimes and incarcerations go hand in hand in the United States (King p.7). Regarding drugs and crime, a RAND analysis concluded that the spending of $1 million to expand mandatory minimum sentencing would result in a national decrease in drug consumption of 13 kilograms…

Private Prisons: Political and Practical Concerns The United States is a prison society. We have the second highest incarceration rate in the world (second to only the small island country of Seychelles), have almost as many current prisoners as China and Russia put together, and sentence convicts to longer sentences than most other governments (Walmsley, 2015; Human Rights Watch, 2014). We are the only country in the world that sentences minors to life without parole and, up until 2005, the law…

Detention centers in Minnesota and all over the country have are often found to have adverse effects on their clients. Many of the juveniles who are currently in detention centers or similar confines are being held for nonviolent offenses. Juvenile incarceration facilities should only be considered for delinquents who have committed violent or serious offenses. Locking up juveniles appears to be ineffective toward correcting negative behavior as opposed to other means of correctional programs.…