Why Are People In Jails

For my final project I chose to focus on Race and sentencing. The United States is about 5% of the world’s population but when it comes to world prisoners the Unites States is about 25%. In the United States African Americans are incarcerated 5 times more than whites in state prisons throughout the country and also 10 times more than whites in 5 states. In this paper I am going to research and study specific articles and studies that document the rate of incarceration for African Americans and Whites. This is not only a problem state by state sentencing but it is also problem for federal sentencing as well. Not only am I going to look at race and sentencing but I am going to also

Mass Incarceration is an important topic because it has a huge impact on the United States. The United States has the highest incarcerated population in the world, with 716 out of 100,000 citizens behind bars(Thompson). Another important topic is that a certain race and ethnicity are behind bars which are the African Americans and Latinos than whites. But African Americans are 1 in 3, Latinos are 1 in 6, and whites are 1 in 17 who will be in prison during their lifetime(Knafo). A topic that is also important and affects the United States dramatically is the annual cost which is 81 billion(Thompson). The main reason for people getting incarcerated is because of drugs, so 1 in 5 people are incarcerated for a drug offense. And most of these

The increasing rate of imprisoned minority adolescent youth and young males in the criminal justice system. For this reason there needs to be interventions available to this population to create a change in society.

Law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. This confinement, whether before or after a criminal conviction, is called incarceration.

The purpose of incarceration is not a simple question to answer. A prison is designed to keep a segment of the population segregated from another segment of the population. Having a understanding of why the segregation s necessary helps the manager or administrator apply or request for funding. During budget crisis or a recession, the manager has to be able to identify and explain the purpose of incarceration so that government monies will be allocated to the correct areas of corrections (Guillory, 2010). In the United States, over the last three decades, there has been an increase in the incarceration rates (Lynch, 1999). There are more than two million adults incarcerated. The US prison population, in the

The United states has a mass incarceration problem with 1 out of 4 of the total population being incarcerated. With the highest incarceration rate in America makes up five percent of the world's population but holds twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners.The rate of incarceration has increased greatly over the last 50 years and continues to grow .The prison systems have become obstreperous, expensive, and destructive to society. African Americans account for fifty six percent of the people incarcerated. The discrimination of black men in the justice system has escalated in the last 50 years causing mass incarceration, broken family systems with distrust of the government, and increased mental health problems in the black community.

Mass Incarceration is an important topic because it has a huge impact on the United States. Let alone the fact that the United States has the highest incarcerated population in the world with 716 out of 100,000 citizens behind bars. Another important topic is that a certain race and ethnicity are behind bars which are the African Americans and Latinos than whites. But African Americans are 1 in 3, Latinos are 1 in 6, and whites are 1 in 17 who will be in prison during their lifetime. A topic that is also important and affects the United States dramatically is the annual cost which is 81 billion. The main reason for people getting incarcerated is because of drugs, so 1 in 5 people are incarcerated for a drug offense. And

The article talks about how a man named, Rodney Roberts was incarcerated for kidnapping and rape, which he said that he didn't commit. Roberts states, “Seventeen years I was gone. I had to understand and process the changes to society, the technology, the cultural changes, the geographical changes” (Roberts). Once you are free from jail, you have to realize that things in the community are not going to be the same anymore. You are going to come across things that you are not use to anymore, but think about if this would happen while in jail.

My writing proposal topic is based off the article “The Prisoner” written by the author Skip Hollandsworth. And published on Texas Monthly, created a masterful piece that had a distinct purpose and way of portraying a twelve-year-old killer. Hollandsworth goes on to explain Edwin growing up in poverty and around gang violence for most his juvenile life. Edwin grew up in one bedroom houses and run down apartments with his mother and multiple siblings. Edwin Degrow was arrested and given a forty-year sentence for killing a cab driver in an attempt to rob him. A then seventy-nine pound Edwin is now halfway through

There was a range of different topics that caught my attention especially the ones evolving domestic violence. I am interning at Next Door Solutions which is a domestic violence resource for survivors in San Jose. Although, I wanted to stray away from my norm so I have chosen to do it on banning solitary confinement on youth. Solitary confinement is used on adults and juvenile when the prisoner is considered a danger to themselves or others. Typically they are placed in solitary confinement when the inmate fights with others, gets an infraction, and is a form of punishment. Solitary confinement separates the prisoner from the general population and puts them in a cell by themselves and main purpose is for the prisoner to feel isolated. They

Throughout the semester, we have been reading and exploring the internet on juvenile delinquents. We as a class have had many good questions to answer about the different ways juveniles are treated, and what the correct or incorrect treatment is for juveniles. We have written many papers and had many discussion on historical milestones, landmark cases, adult courts, juvenile courts, probation and parole, detention centers and juvenile training programs. This semester has really changed the way that I look at juvenile delinquents.

Consistently, state and government jails are filled to limit with peaceful crooks. This puts weight on parole sheets to discharge lawbreakers who under typical circumstances would not be discharged because of the way of their violations. Each State 's Department of Corrections needs to spend a greater amount of citizens ' cash each year for jail upkeep, prison guards and jail social insurance. The issue of jail over populace can without much of a stretch be put under control with the execution of the new advancements as of now accessible for remote observing what 's more, radio recurrence finding frameworks. Electronic observing and house capture has turned into a reasonable different option for imprisonment, probation, and parole

Question: Discuss the history of the prison system in the United States. Be sure to identify the various stages that the American prison system has gone through. Also identify what problems were present with each stage as you see them.

The topic you choose are the same as mine, but the one I disagree with is the three strike policy. When applying the three strike policy so broadly to all felonies conviction it just places a band aide on the systematic issue and creates another for the prison system. So much money is spent on incarceration, but less and less money is being allocated to rehabilitation. Some of society may feel it is not necessary to rehabilitate criminals, but they forget that these inmates will one day be release and if no form of rehabilitation is done, it will lead to continued recidivism.

Is jail where only guilty people? No why you may ask I believe jail isn’t where only guilty people go because there are multiple cases where people were wrongly convicted for crimes they did not do. Take the case of Kevin Cooper for example in 1983 he was framed for the murder of a white family and their house guest. He was imprisoned for 30 years. The police were told by Josh Ryens the only survivor of the murders that the murders were 3 white or Latino men but the police didn’t listen they were convinced it was Cooper. Even though neighbors had say that three white men were at the scene and drove off in a similar station wagon to the one the family owned which was also stolen that night. A local woman named Diana Roper told the police that