Ethical Issues Of Contraband Smuggling Throughout The United States

As prisons grow in size, governments look for new methods to aid in cutting costs and increase efficiency. Over the last decade government run institutions have been replaced with privately funded, for-profit prisons. Although it is cheaper for governments to run contract based institutions this mass industrialization of the prison system has seen many issues with corruption, decreases in efficiency and even mistreatment and exploitation of incarcerated individuals. The prison system should remain under government control and in this essay I will discuss the faults and errors of for-profit institutions and why this system should not be overseen by private corporations.

There are many incentives behind false informants coming forward and giving distorted statements including bribery, the promise of a reduced sentence, and coercion. Testifying falsely in exchange for an incentive – either money or a sentence reduction – is often the last resort for a desperate inmate. For someone who is not in prison already, but who “wants to avoid being charged with a crime” (The Innocence Project), providing false testimony may be a desperate measure to avoid incarceration. Although illegal, threats and coercion are also

Motivated by profitable outcomes, these companies have made incarceration in the United States “ less about justice, and more about the profit motive” (Morial). The idea of making money off of people because of crimes more or less petty crimes are easy targets in the judicial system. Business corporations and political figures, who have high ordinance of power, make the belief of finding the best and most profitable solutions to the economy through prisons. They use free labor of prisoners as equity to their own monetary advantage, which puts them on the upper hand in government and with other corporations that sway political decisions. Monetary values direct how prison systems are ran to build up commission for legislation and

The private prison industry began in the 1980s with the rapidly increasing crime rate due to the then recently declared war on drugs. Since its beginning, the industry’s legality has been highly debated for various reasons. These reasons include

Bohn & Hanley (2011) expresses a clear dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated in the United States since the early 1970’s, mostly because of drugs (pg. 365). Another notable fact reveals the increase of confinement is the rising charge in price per day to house prisoners; as well, keep jails and prison overcrowded to make more profit (Bohn & Hanley, 2011, pg.369). Although efforts to provide alternatives methods to long-term incarceration exists, the fact still remains that private sectors that own prisons and jails still depend on a high rate of imprisonment (Bohm & Hanley, 2011, pg. 370). Noticeably, the strategic approach taken is to build larger facilities to house more offenders, make more profit from their crimes and

Correctional officers or prison guards: these classifications are used to identify those in authority in institutions throughout the world. Correctional institutions in the United States are formulated on fairness and productivity, and the administrators within the institutions are held at the highest responsibility to see fit the safety and wellness of inmates during their time of rehabilitation. However, with the vast exposure of insubordination overtime, prison guards are being targeted as the true criminals. In certain cases, correctional officers are abusing their authority and neglecting inmate’s constitutional rights. This misconduct has tainted the integrity of correctional officers throughout much of the United States. Evidently, I will further demonstrate the unlawful misconduct among those in positions as correctional officers, the reason for their misconduct, and their effects on inmates.

Three people allegedly part of a large drug trafficking organization were indicted last week and six pounds of heroin were seized, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

In our modern world there has been someone or someones who have come up with an idea. This idea is to make prisoners do work for free. These same persons have taken advantage of the

Court-mandated changes have brought about noticeable improvements to the correctional process. However, judicial intervention within the prison system has not made prisons a safer places for inmates or correctional personnel. The main reason that prison violence is on the rise has to do with the intrusion of the courts judicial intervention. The courts have striped the legitimate authority of the prison officials to discipline their inmates(p-4). The existence of the organization has created inmate groups, or gangs, that provide self-protection and power dominance in the prison setting(p-4). The gangs have become so sophisticated that have created protection for themselves and others involved in the gang. They have ways of obtaining illegal items in prison and are even able to connect with the world outside the prison walls, to conduct illegal activity. A national survey conducted by the Camp and Camp (1985) revealed the presence of inmate gangs in 33 prison systems with an estimated membership of 13,000(p-5). The most common offenses of these gangs within prisons often consist of gambling, extortion, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and contract murder(p-7). The organized crime by gangs often is very difficult to identify and resolve, due to the gangs knowledge of how the prison works and their communication between inmates. The problem

The drug enforcement agency helps with drug smuggling in our countries. They watch all the borders coming in and out of countries for drug smuggling. I think that the drug enforcement agency is very useful and very important to the U.S. If it wasn’t for the agency there would be a lot more drugs that get into our country. There is a bunch of ways that drugs get smuggled into the country. The government has hired people to protect our countries from the people that try to get the drugs into the country. There is a lot of security enforcement to prevent the drugs in our country. In the United States, the DEA has 21 divisions and 226 field offices. Globally, it has offices in 66 countries. It employs 9,600 people—5,000 of whom are Special Agents.

The world has witnessed the emergence of illicit trafficking networks such as : A. Q. Khan and other player’s to sell designs, materials, and equipment that could be used to build nuclear weapons within legitimate trade to conceal their shipments. Still, countries who seek to acquire nuclear weapons programs, and different actors who seek to disrupt global security with nuclear materials will continue to challenge international export regime. Another emerging threat is the potential for nuclear terrorism. The September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, heightened awareness of the threat posed by non-state actors to build a nuclear explosive or nuclear weapon. Illicit trafficking is a complex process which can include: many states, actors, companies, suppliers by which materials are traded. This process takes advantage of weaknesses in the export control systems, and the spread of knowhow on sensitive nuclear technologies which is facilitated by the internet (world-wide communication). These two factors increase the possibility that the state or non-state actors might steal or illicitly purchase highly enriched uranium or plutonium on the black market and use them to construct a nuclear device. The large stockpiles of usable nuclear weapon material around the world and the political instability in countries containing those materials, if they are not secured, make the accidental or unauthorized use of them a continuous risk [13]. This is a growing concern for both the IAEA and member states; in 1995 the IAEA established the Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB).

FedEx was charged with illegal drug trafficking in 2000s. FedEx got caught shipping illegal drugs across the US into pharmacies, the DEA confirmed that FedEx did this by going through internal emails. This problem originally occurred in 2006 when a women who used the shipped drugs committed suicide. FedEx wanted nothing to do with the woman, so that led to an investigation.

Illegal transportation of people is a global challenge. It is not a safe way of traveling and has taken the lives of many people. At first glance, the obvious option is to get transported legally and getting admitted to a safe country. However, it is not that easy, and these people do not have a choice. Waiting to get legally transported can take a long time, and not everyone has the option to just sit and wait quietly. Many of the illegal migrants wholeheartedly believe that illegal transportation is their only solution. So they collect all the money they have and give it to the smugglers in a hope of a better future, which not all of them get unfortunately. According to Appendix 2 around 800 people died in the accident. Accidents similar

Human smuggling is defined as the act of facilitating, transporting or aiding the illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, deliberately evading the country 's immigration laws. Human trafficking is similar, but not quite the same since the person being trafficked has not given consent, while smuggling is under an agreement between smuggler and customer. A victim of trafficking is also usually treated as possession to be controlled and exploited ("Human Trafficking Gale") . Human smuggling and trafficking both have damaging effects and the causality is left with physical, mental and emotional scars. A majority of the people that are being affected are migrants from Central America or residents of the Mexican highlands hoping to get work on farms or construction sites in the U.S. Being smuggled across the border is very problematic. Not only because there is a high risk of being caught, but if they are able to make it across they are generally unable to pay for food, transportation and often don 't speak English.("Dying to Leave.") Victims of trafficking are primarily young children or women whose purpose is to either be used as slave labor or some sort of sexual exploitation like prostitution. Human smuggling and trafficking is such an important issue to resolve because it’s a violation of human rights, a form of organized crime, undermines human safety and even threatens development prospects in many regions around the world ("Human Trafficking.")

Many love to point out how America left Britain was in search of establishing freedom because of its poetic appeal, however, one of the most overlooked factors is the thing that makes the world go round: money. Smuggling(moving items in and out of a country illegally), was a vessel for America to increase its economic influence in the world. It allowed America to not be constricted by British merchants. While smuggling may be viewed as a side note in the rise of statesmen independence, in no way was it not crucial to the beginning of america as a country, away from britain.