Prison Reforms

Prions review and reform is a necessity in 21first century, the United States Prison population has grown past beyond what it can afford. Adult correctional systems supervised an estimated 6,851,000 persons at yearend 2014, about 52,200 fewer offenders than at yearend 2013(2015 Kaeble, Glaze, Tsoutis, Minton)
Christian Henrichson, Ruth Delaney researchers’ discovered that the cost to taxpayer for maintaining prisons in about 40 states was $39 billion. One of the great costs was Hospital and other health care for the prison population which was $335 million (Christian Henrichson, Ruth Delaney, 2012). United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDC) Central believes that promoting prison reforms is human rights issues, many UNDC standards and
(UNDC, May 2014):“In order for a prison system to be managed in a fair and humane manner, national legislation, policies and practices must be guided by the international standards developed to protect the human rights of prisoners (UNDC, May 2014).” States and counties need to make Prison public administration takes responsibility that all supervision and treatment of inmates with equal protection, with a respect of individuals' human rights. Including health care, many people of low income and people of color come to prison with already health issue known and unknown(UNDC, May 2014). Low income individuals are most likely to have an existing health issues upon entering to prison, as they are predominantly from poorly community, poor educated and socio-economically deprived sectors of the general population, with limited access to health services (UNDC, May 2014). (UNDC, May 2014):“While being inmates, their health conditions deteriorate in overcrowded prisons, where nutrition is poor, sanitation inadequate and access to fresh air and exercise often unavailable(UNDC, May 2014). Psychiatric disorders, HIV infection, tuberculosis,
I once heard a speaker say,” that poor people go to jail”. My understanding is that poor if they violate the law, they end up staying in jail, because they cannot afford a private attorney, nor can they afford the bail. Imprisonment of individuals affects disproportionately of families living in poverty (UNDC, May 2014). When an individual income proves for a family, the imprisonment impacts the whole family (UNDC, May 2014). (UNDC, May 2014):“Thus the family experiences financial losses as a result of the imprisonment of one of its members, exacerbated by the new expenses that must be met, such as the cost of a lawyer, food for the imprisoned person, transport to prison for visits and so on(UNDC, May 2014).” Then inmate is release, there is no or to little option for employment, some area of employment is no longer even an area for them because they have a criminal background now, which new and continue developed laws keep them from even applying(UNDC, May 2014). They cannot even have a chance to participate in changing laws and policy, because many have lost the right to vote when you have a felony on your record. This is what I call still in being in Prison, outside the