Drug dealers engaging into the drug business is not their choice but their only way out. According to Moore L.D Elkanch A. the author of “Who’s Using and Who’s Doing Time”, explains “Prison inmates suffer from multiple of illnesses; such as HIV, Tuberculosis, and as well as violence”. With drugs and addiction…
I do not believe that the ends justify the means when it comes to mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenses. The reason for enacting these laws was to try and deter crime, but research has shown that harsher punishments does not lead to a decrease in crime rates. Incarcerating people for drug offenses is not an effective way to combat drug crimes. The space in prisons, and funds used to fight drug crimes should both be focused more on violent…
To be a snitch means to be a tattle teller. It is also known as being an informer or someone who shares advice. In the latter day urban society snitching is considered to be one of the ways of getting yourself in unwanted trouble. Like they say don’t go sticking your nose in other people’s business, snitching is exactly the opposite of it. Growing up in today’s urban society it has become a debate whether or not snitching is good or bad. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on how to approach a touchy subject as such.…
I do think that the mandatory sentencing is one approach to solving the drug problem, but I do not think that it is the only one. It is clear that the sentencing works to a certain extent, but is not the right choice for every situation. Personally, I feel like this is a gray area due to the fact that mandatory sentencing gives definitive discipline to someone who broke the law. Where in specific cases that approach is too strict. Although I do not have a direct answer to solve this problem, I think that different variables should play into the sentencing.…
Everybody knows that the real problem with illegal drugs is that they cost too much, and they are so difficult to get that drug addicts need to commit crimes in order to feed their habits. If only people could go down to the nearest Seven-Eleven and buy a cocaine-powdered donut, or drive up to the window at McDonald's and order a dank 10-piece marijuana nugget meal. Then people wouldn’t need to knock down an old lady and grab her purse, or commit a home invasion robbery for some extra cheese. People would not be as shady and messed up to others if they could get what they want and need easier (cheaper). There would be less crime and no drug dealers.…
The War on Drugs era has resulted in a huge growth in incarceration for drug offenses. In 1980, about 40,900 people were put in jail for drug offenses and today that number has grown to about…
In my opinion, the proposed approach to the criminalization of drugs would not be feasible. I believe this because federal drug laws are usually questionable, drug prohibition creates more opportunity for crime to occur, and the economical aspect of money (in the billions) being funneled towards criminal businesses and or organizations.…
Instead of throwing nonviolent drug users into a prison’s population why not setup some sort of self funded rehab system? The addicts would first go there as patients and receive some sort of treatment for their illness, and after a recovery period of about a year they would become supporters of other addicts. They would remain there for a set number of years helping others to become sober, until it is seen that they have been rehabilitated. After this time they would be released back into the free world with skills to help them to become productive members of society. The same is true for the homeless people’s situation; to restore justice to this not much money needs to be spent. Simply setup a shelter with homeless people working the various shifts and jobs, for their labors they would receive food and would able to be monitored by government officials so that they would not commit the same crimes. These are just a proposed means to solve the current situation within the prison system; using these methods vagrants will receive food, not drugs, and addicts will receive treatment for their bad…
There are serious issues to be dealt with as far as prison addiction treatment and the criminal justice system. The fact is that there needs to be a plan that outlines how to effectively help people, who have drug and alcohol problems, who involved themselves in crime. Substance abuse is an extremely difficult…
How do we deal with non-violent drug offenders? That’s the question! There would be no hesitation if putting a violent criminal behind bars for a very long time. Murderers, rapists, bank robbers. Those were the kinds of criminals that were locked up back in the days. Prison was known to be a place for bad guys. However, since the war on drugs has escalated, the number and duration of prison sentences for non-violent offenders incarcerated for drug possession is also on the rise. Arrests for drugs and other non-violent petty crimes should be changed from felonies to misdemeanors, therefore reducing the number of individuals jailed, and using those resources to fund mental health and drug treatment programs. Nonetheless, I feel that imprisonment will neither help individuals getting arrested for these non-serious crimes, nor will it make their communities any safer. On the other hand, while these non-violent offenders are getting incarcerated, other far more dangerous criminals are actually getting away.…
The book defines a whistleblower to be someone who "Sounds an alarm from within the very organization in which they work, aiming to spotlight neglect or abuses that threaten the public interest." Whistle blowing can save an organization from performing unethical operations, but at the same time can be detrimental to the future employment of the whistleblower. Therefore, I believe that in certain circumstances, whistle blowing is necessary for the company's well-being, but is it worth it to whistle blow when your future career is at risk? In addition, I believe that in a majority of circumstances where a person's career is not a risk, that there is still no ethical obligation…
In my opinion prison is not a rehabilitating the offenders but to punished them. Correctional and medical treatment are alike in one other way that are good to rehabilitate the drug users as there are experts in those fields. Well trained doctors and officers with the relevant knowledge on how to treat their "clients," will guide the individualized treatment that would take place. In medicine, this commitment to training physicians in scientific expertise has been institutionalized, with…
Most people will identify either rehabilitation, retribution or punishment is the purpose of incarceration. In the past and during the war on drugs, politicians were afraid to be thought of as soft on crime. This caused the politicians, who wanted to be re-elected, to respond to the…
The first point I would like to make is that recently we have seen on the news and other forms of media the massive busts that have been made on drug related arrests; the last recorder incident showed the Australian Federal Police busting an import of drugs that had a total street value of almost 500 million dollars. This is evidence of the severity of the case and how much damage it could cause to our way of life.…
There needs to be a change in the criminal justice system. Convicted felons who are charged with any drug felony should not be put into jail or prison because it doesn’t help solve the problem. Rudy Haapanen states, “It is now generally agreed that the criminal justice system fails to rehabilitate offenders, to make them less likely to commit criminal acts as a result of treatment or training; that the system fails to deter potential offenders, to make then less likely to commit criminal acts out of fear of penal sanctions”. In this paper I will discuss drug use in the population, drug dealers, drugs and regulations. I will discuss drug use in the population so that you will see the seriousness of drugs in the community and the effects of drugs on people. I will converse about drug dealers because they are part of the reason why people are getting supplied with the drugs. If there were no drug dealers drug use would be cut down tremendously. Discussing drug and regulation is important to know about because knowing how drugs are regulated helps people know were the drugs come from and how they came into existence. I will also debate different types of drug as well as the reasons why prison time doesn’t work and what should be done for drug users will be conversed as well. I will also talk about ways to keep out of prison because these will keep recidivism rate low.…