Incarceration In Prison Research Paper
Land of the Free and Penitentiary
The United States has 50 states, “land of the free and home of the brave”, “makes up 5 percent of the world population and also 25% of the world’s prisoners” –President Obama. Our prison system is full of guilty, convicted people serving unnecessary sentences for minor crimes or accused of a crime. Because our system takes in more people for minors as marijuana, and bad checks, our prisons have become shelters for much of our population. We are look at from other nations as a mystery as to why is there so many in prisons, and why do we even have so many prison facilities. Being one of the best free nations, with a democracy system, what makes America different from other nations is that we have to put almost …show more content…
The purpose of this paper is to seek incarceration in society by addressing who what how when and where, on the subject of matter. My argument of the United States population being sheltering in warehouse of society known as the penitentiary system is wrong. United States’ prison population are the worst despite economy and structure systems. I will research supporting arguments from articles I found from scholarly sources and popular sources from the internet for you to challenge my argument and hopefully agree with me and if not then go on to more discussion on other topics to argue against …show more content…
Most would say ( ) that t is the war on drugs that populate the prisons, though it is not 100% correct, but it is filling up our prisons with drug-related offenses, holding up to 17 percent. Though in just taking out offences for drug charges, it would only drop 1.5 to 1.2, and we would still be the largest incarcerated country. Therefore from drug related problems, during a period, (1975-1991) where crime rose and so did population, but then, (1991-2010) where crime decline but population still rose, showing that there was more than the problem of drugs. Because that wasn’t the direct answer, questions and concern look at if there could be problem with the political system and law
The United States has 50 states, “land of the free and home of the brave”, “makes up 5 percent of the world population and also 25% of the world’s prisoners” –President Obama. Our prison system is full of guilty, convicted people serving unnecessary sentences for minor crimes or accused of a crime. Because our system takes in more people for minors as marijuana, and bad checks, our prisons have become shelters for much of our population. We are look at from other nations as a mystery as to why is there so many in prisons, and why do we even have so many prison facilities. Being one of the best free nations, with a democracy system, what makes America different from other nations is that we have to put almost …show more content…
The purpose of this paper is to seek incarceration in society by addressing who what how when and where, on the subject of matter. My argument of the United States population being sheltering in warehouse of society known as the penitentiary system is wrong. United States’ prison population are the worst despite economy and structure systems. I will research supporting arguments from articles I found from scholarly sources and popular sources from the internet for you to challenge my argument and hopefully agree with me and if not then go on to more discussion on other topics to argue against …show more content…
Most would say ( ) that t is the war on drugs that populate the prisons, though it is not 100% correct, but it is filling up our prisons with drug-related offenses, holding up to 17 percent. Though in just taking out offences for drug charges, it would only drop 1.5 to 1.2, and we would still be the largest incarcerated country. Therefore from drug related problems, during a period, (1975-1991) where crime rose and so did population, but then, (1991-2010) where crime decline but population still rose, showing that there was more than the problem of drugs. Because that wasn’t the direct answer, questions and concern look at if there could be problem with the political system and law