Mass Incarceration In The Criminal Justice System

Clinton increased funding for prions to be built, more money given to law enforcement. The number of people arrested spiked. By ninety-ninety, there was over one million, one hundred thousand, one hundred, seventy-nine thousand, two hundred prisoners. Federal law’s set a trend that was overdone; he was wrong for his ninety-ninety-four criminal bill.
Many of our prisoners begin incarcerated for many small misdemeanor crimes that had longer sentences, mandatory minimums to spend a long time in jail. If they do not have money to bail out of jail or have someone that is willing to bail them out of jail they will sit in jail. Once they get to court, they have an arraignment. At their appearance, if the judge will read them their charges, ask
if they understand the charges against them. Then they ask if they have an attorney and if they cannot afford an attorney, then one will be court appointed to them. Ninety-eight percent of the time they cannot afford an attorney. The court-appointed attorney works for the DA. The DA is who charges you. Plus, the court-appointed attorney has a massive caseload and will always suggest you take the plea deal that the DA has offered you. Meanwhile, the whole time they are working with the court-appointed attorney, also known as a public defender, they are sitting in jail. The public defenders have such a massive caseload that by the time they get to court, they have not had the proper time to look at the case and give their clients the representation that they deserve. With our court calendars overbooked, this has caused our jails to be overcrowded. If you can afford an attorney that means that you can afford to bail out of jail. Your private attorney will have the time to read over your case file. As well as give you the opportunity and respect you deserve. The reason the United States has such a massive problem with mass incarceration is that many people take a plea deal instead of fighting their case is because they cannot defend themselves.
Often the protector will approach you with a plea deal or threaten you will a very long sentence. If you decide to fight the case, you must sit in jail while fighting your crime if you cannot have offered bail. The criminal system is designed to hold the minorities down. With prisons are becoming overpopulated in creates the demand for more prions to be built. With more prisons being established to create a multibillion-dollar industry in American. More private companies are given contracts to this jail to feed, employ, and provide
healthcare.
There is no need to change the laws to free many people that are in jail for misdemeanors when they are making money off the prison system.
If you create the demand you will have to supply, it. NO better way of providing the prison system than to keep the prisons full of African American’s and Minorites. Our judicial system has become a way for wealthy whites to make money of African American’s with our laws because they are not ready to go back in time and change the thirteenth amendment legally written. With the collapse of Slavery, new systems created such as, convict leasing; then a new system was born Jim Crow which forever devised a method of permanently placing African American’s in a second-class citizen, a new system such as, mass incarceration. Once you are labeled a felon, many rights such as; voting, employment, food stamps, housing, and educational opportunities are denied. Just how Jim Crow did. In prisons being privatized many politicians are getting kickbacks from these companies. With judges and politicians getting large amounts of money from these companies, they must keep the penitentiary
filled.