Pros And Cons Of Mass Incarceration

population. This gives the city of Cranston more tax and voting power and it gives the politicians in that area more money (Monteiro).
When conducting the outside interview section of the paper, James Monteiro believed that one major controversy regarding mass incarceration is should inmates be educated. It caused the United States about sixty thousand a year to lock up one male and roughly eighty thousand to lock up a female, it cost around sixty thousand to send someone to Brown University, a college education has become cheaper than keeping a prisoner incarcerated (Monteiro). Monterio believes that there should be some sort of transitional program where prisoners can learn how to take care of themselves when released. Monterio connects