Does The System Work After Being Incarcerated?

Over the years the United States incarceration rate has gradually increased. The money spent on an individual incarcerated each year surpassed an average person living off minimum wage. Can these rates decreases? Yes, creating programs which help individuals develop skills in the working field. Allow those individuals to voice their opinions and not feel the wrath of not being able to do much with one’s life after being incarcerated. The film Prison State shows how self issues have become very dominant within these facilities, some individuals incarcerated for minor behavioral issues and those who may be harmful to society are still roaming the streets. In addition, some of these facilities don’t have the space to keep these individuals. Therefore
Where she explain how us as individuals may think we know how the system works. We only know so little based on what these media outlets say. That it is more than just that. Those who are on the inside know how these facilities operates. We ought to stop turning to these fictional outlets that depicts what the system isn’t and look into what it really is and how it operates. “ Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system works bears little resemblance to what happens on television or in movies.” (Alexander 59). She then spoke about the fourth amendment which is individuals having the rights of the people to be secured, their papers, houses etc. The passages states, “Most Americans do not know what the Fourth Amendment of the U.S Constitution actually states or what it requires of the police… The right of the people to be secured in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.” (Alexander 61). It was very indeed important for Michelle to point out the fourth amendment because often time people doesn’t know the rights they do have, so they get caught up in a system with not know they voice that the do have in many of the issues they
These individuals knows that’s being incarcerated sometimes doesn’t teaches them as much as they thought it would. In the film a young lady by the name of Demetira, was introduced. She was placed in a juvenile shelter for her behavioral issues and the assault of a family member. Her behavioral issues has now become a source of how she reacts to everything, such as losing her mom at a young age. She feels like no one has her back the way she wished they would. Losing a mom is very tough on her. Demetria was then placed in a detention center, where more forceful actions will later takes place. The film presented individuals who are less harm to society than a person who is more harmful to it. Those issue that could be solved by creating centers for people with substance abuse, behavioral issues having mentors that will be an important source to those trying to find their way back into a world that was once against. The system is set up in a way to allow individuals to fail because there’s nothing out there for them to do. If that individual wanted a source of money the only way was to turn to violence and that now puts them back into a facility which is only going to make matters