A Nation Of Jailers Summary

On March 11, 2009 Glenn Loury published the Story “A nation of jailers.” The story first appeared in the issue of Cato Upbound an online forum of The Cato Institute on March 11, 2009 (A Nation of Jailers). Glenn Loury is an African American university professor of social science and economics and the director of the institute of race and social division at Boston University (2001).” Prior to teaching at Boston University Loury taught economics at Harvard, northwestern and the university of Michigan (2001)”. “Glen Loury studied the of welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution (A nation of jailers).” “Loury has published articles on social policies and racial inequality in many journals of public affairs in the U.S (2001).”
In the story “A nation of jailers” Glen Loury emphasizes that the correctional system in the United States has increased greatly within recent years. He points out that other countries have a high crime rate, but the United States has the highest incarceration rate than any other country in the world. Loury develops the problem in the story by stating that most citizens imprisoned in our correctional system are poor uneducated black and Hispanic men. He goes on to say that America has become a nation of jailers and arguably racist jailers at that
The united states should think more realistically about the punishment they order to offenders. Once ordering the offenders sentence it should be taken into consideration why the crime was committed and what choices the offender had. Loury also points out that the United States should try to rehabilitate inmates instead of warehousing them. The United states should also Educated children especially impoverished children from ghetto