The Issue Of The Criminal Justice Correctional System

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For years and years the government has discussed the issue of the criminal justice correctional system. Major topics include overcrowding, financial strain, and recidivism. Correctional facilities and agencies should recognize the different types of offenders they house and reexamine their living arrangements in order to prevent overpopulation, save money, and most importantly, decrease recidivism. This paper examines how properly managing male, female, pregnant, and elderly inmates can be a solution to a lot of the correctional systems current problems. Also discussed are the reasons why people choose to commit crimes. The general strain theory has been a well-known approach to understanding the cause of crime. Another reason why people commit crimes is because jail is the only life most people know and a majority feel that life is prison is easier than what they would have to deal with on the outside. A closer look at employment in society shows how offenders need more support on the outside to become a law abiding citizens and stay out of the prison system. Providing inmates with the resources to succeed is not actually increasing their odds of succeeding.

PRISON POPULATION
Overview
At the end of 2013, the United States Department of Justice estimated that there were over 1.5 million people in our nation’s prisons (Carson, 2014). There are several different types of inmates that are included in county, state, and federal correctional facilities. For example,
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