Spending More Than Ten Years In Prison

We all make mistakes that we later regret, but that's life. We need to focus more on just accepting to live with it.

The current condition of US prisons is mediocre at best. The U.S. has one of the highest prison populations in the world. America's

In any given year now, incarceration rates has tripled with approximately 13 million people introduced to American jails in any given year. This increase in the prison population far outpaced the crime rate and the US population growth. Today, America has around 5% of the world’s population but a quarter of the world’s prison population.

We all make mistakes that we later regret, but that's life. We need to focus more on just accepting to live with it.

The United States of America has more people incarcerated than any other country on earth, a whopping 2,220,300 adults are currently locked behind bars. We have 500,000 more citizens locked up than China, a country 5 times our population run by an authoritarian government. From 1990 - 2000 the prison population increased by 1,000,000. The main reason for incarceration as a punishment in this country is rehabilitation, or so we have been told. In recent years an industry has developed that revolves around high incarceration rates and lengthy sentences, needless to say business is booming. The for-profit prison industry now makes millions off the backs of American inmates their families and every American taxpayer. The two largest

The United State’s prison system was initially designed to punish and rehabilitate individuals whom were convicted of a felony or other serious offense. Inmates are sentenced for a certain amount of time, or the entirety of their life based on how serious of a crime that person has committed. The Idea of imprisoning a person as a form of punishment dates back to medieval times however, it wasn’t until right before the American Revolution humane prisons started appearing in this country. Today, prisons are more populated than they have ever been and are functioning not only as a place to reform people’s morals, but also as a highly profitable investment for the wealthy to exploit. The Prison system is so devoted to making

America has the highest rate of incarceration per capita of any other industrialized nation. That is an amazing fact. Don’t believe it? Then do some research. The World Prison Brief, a database hosted by the International Centre for Prison Studies, provides an online table* that list the world’s prison population broken down by nation. With a total population of over 320 million, the U.S. ranks at 698 prisoners per 100,000 people. That beats just about every nation in the world, including China and Russia combined.

Today, the United States has 5 percent of the world’s population, but home to 25 percent of the world’s prison population. We hold over 2.3 million people in our prisons--that’s 1 in every 31 American adults. America is spending way too much of its resources on over-incarceration when we could be spending it on creating jobs and providing education to those who would otherwise get lost in the criminal justice system. America has reached the point to where there are more prisons than colleges in the country.

Growing up, almost everyone is told never to break the law or there will be severe consequences. This includes many things happening but the one most talked about it prison. Prison rates in the United States are at an all time highest not only in the country, but in a world as well. This has caused many problems that affect not only the people within the U.S, but the country as a whole as well.

Have you ever heard the saying “You do the crime; you do the time”? Now most people would consider this completely understandable and maybe even some people would view this as a form of justice, but I will show you why the treatment of our prisoners during and after confinement would be considered injustice, to say the least. Between 1970 and 2005 the US prison population grew a massive 700%. Far

The U.S. prison system is a highly effective saftey system with over 1700 prisoner acress the U.S. and about 2.2 million prisoners that were incarecated in just 2013 alone. Thus may sound excessive but as Edmnd Burke once said "All that is neccessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing." The U.S. prison system definitely doesnt do nothing. Prisons across the nation not only serve as places where evil is fairly and adequately punished but, as a place for rehabilitation, and example of an efficacious crime control strategy and detterent to future offenders. Prison systems in the U.S. are very sccessful in keeping our society as safe as possible.

To begin with, we should change the way we sentence people because there are other ways to deal with criminals and how long they’re in prison. In source number 2 “Mass Incarceration is a Horrible failure” paragraph 2, states “only 3 percent of people who enrolled in treatment were re-arrested for a violent crime compared to

Do you know someone who has committed a crime? My friend John from high school was an average B student. He always came to class and always did his work. When it came to exam week he didn’t show up. I was worried, so I called his mom and asked what happened. She told me that John was in jail for marijuana possession. He was only in jail for a week before his mom could bail him out. While in jail, he missed his final exams and failed all his classes forcing him to take summer school to graduate. Today, the United States has twenty-five percent of the world prisoners. One in every thirty-one adults of the population is under some form of correctional control. The United States has more people in prison than anywhere else in the world. What is really sad about the United States is having prisons for profit instead of healing for the accused and preventing them from committing another crime. We need a new criminal justice system that focuses more on how we convict people, provide appropriate sentencing, and rehabilitate through healing instead of punishment.

“The U.S. spends about $80 billion each year on incarcerations... There are currently about 2.2 million Americans in prison, accounting for roughly 25 percent of all prisoners worldwide”(Wolfgang). This statistic is dangerously high. This statistic is good in a way, showing the world the US is good at catching criminals. On the contrast, it shows the world that the prison population in the US is arresting criminals for crimes that wouldn't be prosecuted in other parts of the world. The prison population is rivaling some countries on total complete population. An example being Jamacia, a self sustaining country with population of 2.4 million. Not far from the population of Americans in jail. The United States should

Americans seem to forget some of the simplest traits and characteristics we are taught as children. Kindness and forgiveness were concepts were more or less forced upon us as little kids. To forgive and forget seems to be the easiest things we can do as human beings. Prison seems like a landfill for poor people suffering or just down on their luck. Inmates are packed in cages, taken care of by prison staffs with no higher than some college credit in their pocket, and the service they provide is sub-par to begin with. There is little effort to reintegrate these inmates back into some social level. Prisons serve three key functions: Punish the bad guy or girl, Protect society from them, and to rehabilitate that individual.