Essay On Mass Incarceration
The Incarcerated.
America land of the free and home of the great, But in all reality is America as great is we all make it to be. Mass incarceration is growing at a rapid rate. I am going to be discussing the effect of how mass incarceration affects the youth. When you turn on the news often times we see several crimes that are committed by the youth. “This country has the highest incarceration rate in the world and more prisoners than any other country in the world; with 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world’s prisoners (Walmsley, n.d)”.
The time effort, and money spent on those individuals who are sentenced for quite a long time is beginning to take a toll on this country.
According to Anna Aizer (2013), The US imprisons more young …show more content…
In other words, society chose to use incarceration as a
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welfare program to deal with the poor, especially since the underprivileged are disproportionately people of color (Institute, 2016).
In the future I believe there can be a difference for the number of individuals who are incarcerated. We as a country should try harder to lower the number of imprisoned people.
“Results suggest that incarcerating juveniles, at tremendous cost, serves to reduce their educational attainment and increase the probability of incarceration as an adult. Interestingly, after years of steady increases in juvenile incarceration, in the past decade, juvenile incarceration has started to decline. Nationally, juvenile incarceration has dropped 32% from 2002 to the present (National Juvenile Justice Network 2013).This is driven by both falling rates of crime and by concerted efforts on the part of roughly ten (of the largest) states to reduce expenditures on juvenile incarceration by substituting to less costly community-based alternatives (Aizer
,2013)”. Although it is not much we can see that the number of those who are incarcerated has slowly decreased over the past
America land of the free and home of the great, But in all reality is America as great is we all make it to be. Mass incarceration is growing at a rapid rate. I am going to be discussing the effect of how mass incarceration affects the youth. When you turn on the news often times we see several crimes that are committed by the youth. “This country has the highest incarceration rate in the world and more prisoners than any other country in the world; with 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world’s prisoners (Walmsley, n.d)”.
The time effort, and money spent on those individuals who are sentenced for quite a long time is beginning to take a toll on this country.
According to Anna Aizer (2013), The US imprisons more young …show more content…
In other words, society chose to use incarceration as a
THE INCARCERATED
4
welfare program to deal with the poor, especially since the underprivileged are disproportionately people of color (Institute, 2016).
In the future I believe there can be a difference for the number of individuals who are incarcerated. We as a country should try harder to lower the number of imprisoned people.
“Results suggest that incarcerating juveniles, at tremendous cost, serves to reduce their educational attainment and increase the probability of incarceration as an adult. Interestingly, after years of steady increases in juvenile incarceration, in the past decade, juvenile incarceration has started to decline. Nationally, juvenile incarceration has dropped 32% from 2002 to the present (National Juvenile Justice Network 2013).This is driven by both falling rates of crime and by concerted efforts on the part of roughly ten (of the largest) states to reduce expenditures on juvenile incarceration by substituting to less costly community-based alternatives (Aizer
,2013)”. Although it is not much we can see that the number of those who are incarcerated has slowly decreased over the past