American Incarcerate Machine Research Paper

Politics and government is the focus point in America that shapes the lives of every citizen in America. Jails and Prison in the United States should be equally as important to the American people as the government. “Race and American Incarcerate machine” is the topic I chose among the list of topics that was suggested. When research my question I thought about different American race percent that were getting locked up and the different kind times they were getting with the same crime. After going over and over looking for answers I came up with a question is: Is it true that the United States have the highest incarceration and are the different races given the same amount of consequence. America is only 5% of the worldś population, but locks up 25% of the worldś prisoners. An estimate of about 3 to 7 million people a year pass through jails in the United States. A trip to jail can drastically affect the lives of an American and this is the most disturbing experience one can endure with the criminal justice system. In the
The justice system has gone from protecting the public from those who they deem as predators to making money from the same citizens of America they suppose to protect. Criminal Justice System make money from everyone in the human race, but African American, Mexican and Latino race is more likely to be arrested than any other race. This happens because more of their neighborhoods are impoverish and have less resources that would give them better opportunities to turn their situations around. Their communities are run down, their schools don’t have all the up to date resources to provide their kids with better education, jobs are limited which leave majority of them doing things illegally to survive. Those communities are broken and the government can fix it by help provided them with resources and funding that they