Overcrowded Prisons Research Paper

Criminals are Valuable Resources It’s no surprise that the United States prison systems are overcrowded. With the elimination of the death penalty in many states the population of incarcerated Americans has quadrupled since the 1970’s. The average cost of keeping an individual behind bars is $50,000 a year. And we wonder why the government is going broke. Prisons are realistically criminal training grounds. If you put a bunch of car thieves in a cell together for three to five years, what do you think they’re going to talk about? How to get a legitimate business started? Aannnnntt. Wrong. They’re going to talk about better ways to boost cars and not get caught. Over 50% of prisoners are repeat offenders. Obviously the whole sit there and think about your actions approach isn’t working. There are
I don’t see any better way to deal with this problem of overcrowded prisons. We get to keep the good hard workers here and let them have jobs that will help the economy grow, we thin out the prisons (thereby saving more money), and we get the bad guys off our streets letting them be happy terrorizing our countries enemies. They’re going to die anyway, at least this way were saving some damn money. After all, isn’t that what the American dream is all about? Being happy? Well then damn it let them be happy. If they can kill trained police officers with no formal training themselves, imagine what they could do to a pack of Taliban extremists with a little guidance form Uncle Sam! If they’re ballsy enough to rob a bank with armed guards, carrying nothing but a pocket knife, they sure as hell won’t mind storming a bunker with a fully automatic M16. That’s like giving a fat kid a candy bar, they’ll love it! But hey, that would make too much sense, and nobody likes doing things that make