The United States have the highest number of incarcerations in the world. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics The United States has 2.3 million people incarcerated and China’s estimated prison population totals to 1.6 million. Instead of The United States incarcerating so many people they should focus on providing rehabilitation to prevent re-offenders. Rehabilitation is the re-integration into society of a convicted person and the main objective of modern penal policy‚ to counter criminal
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most brutal crimes committed in and out of prison have come as a result of prison gangs. Prison gangs have dangerous reputations and the deadlier a gang is known to be‚ the more evil it’s members are expected to be. Prison gangs compete for the most dangerous of reputation. Members of prison gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and Mexican Mafia are expected to commit terrible crimes in the name of the organizations cut-throat reputations Offenders join prison gangs for the convenience of power and the
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How do you decide who goes to prison and who doesn’t?You can only have so many people in a prison at once‚ so you have to decide who goes in and who stays out. Overcrowded prisons can be a safety hazard to the prisoners and also it costs taxpayers to keep them there. there are two groups of people. Let’s imagine this scenario: One group of 20 people‚ Group A is going to trial for possession of an illicit substance. Another group‚ Group B also has 20 people going to trial except this time for murder
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The private prisons industry is growing rapidly‚ in the year 2011‚ companies that were a part of the private prison industry brought in "$1.7 billion: [in] total revenue recorded by CCA" (Lee) and many have questioned the intentions of the companies that own and operate those facilitates. The history of private prisons can be traced "as far back as 1852 when San Quentin was the first for-profit prison in the U.S." (“Private Jails”). Private prisons did not become popular again until the 1980s‚ when
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The biggest problem in America is overcrowded prisons. But how do we fix that? For several prisons have been lacking space for prisoners. America needs to build more prisons because of conditions‚ population‚ and fair treatment. America needs to build more prisons because of conditions. A facility outside of San Diego was large‚ open‚ and very well lit; the only problem was that inmates were everywhere and crammed with double bunks. Pete Gallagher who lived in building 13 watched the conditions
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Supermax prisons are often referred to as the prison within a prison. With the increase of prison population throughout the nation and the increase in violence‚ prison officials sought to curb the rate of violence. Their answer was the supermax prison system. Designed to hold hundreds of inmates in Administrative Segregation‚ prison officials sought to lower violence by housing the worst offenders in solitary confinement (Latessa and Holsinger‚ 2011‚ pp. 79-81). Proponents of the supermax systems
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America has the highest prison population in the world‚ totaling to over 2.2 million people. That’s higher than the population of New Mexico. As for the reason why‚ the War on Drugs plays a big role‚ but For-profit prisons take the cake. For-profit prisons‚ also referred to as private prisons‚ are third-party prisons that are contracted by a government agency. Private prisons originally began to exist in a variety of forms in the 1800’s‚ however they largely disappeared from the 1920’s to the 1980’s
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Would you believe me if I told you that prisons were originally built to reform prisoners? With they way the criminal justice system works and how high the rates of mass incarceration are‚ in today’s day and age‚ I‚ myself‚ would not believe that prisons were built with a positive outcome in mind. If someone would have told me that in the eighteen hundreds prison were used as a place to reform individuals‚ I would have given them a nasty looking face full of disbelief. But now that I have this information
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Administration first opened Guantanamo Prison in 2002 in Cuba. They have kept terrorists their for about fourteen years. However‚ during Obama’s presidency‚ He “ [h]as tried for years to close the U.S. military-run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba‚ and incarcerate terrorism suspects in the United States‚” (Marshall‚ 793). The current issue with Guantanamo is if it should be shut down or not. Yes‚ it does need to be shut down. The Guantanamo prison needs to be shut down due to its ability
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to meet this desired outcome. In 1972‚ federal and state prisons held 196‚000 inmates for a prison incarceration rate of 93 per 100‚000. In addition‚ about 130‚000 inmates were held in jails‚ resulting in about
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