The Pros And Cons Of Prisons
Prisons and inmates
In society today, it is commonly known that crime rate has increased dramatically by the years. This is where many of us look for ways to solve such issue. It is the last place anybody would want to be in. but unfortunately we have hundreds of thousands of them, if not millions around the world. Thousands in just the United States, Those are prisons. Just hearing that word makes us think bad things right away. Murder, theft, violence, and everything bad that happens in this world. We live in a world where prisons and jail are very important and almost every country, state, county, or city must have at least one. Prisons now are much more crowded than they were 20 years ago. The number of inmates in just the United States has doubled between the years of 1992 and 2011. The question many of us should ask ourselves is why do we need prisons? Are prisons effective in any way? Are prisons causing economic issues? Are prisoners getting proper treatment while incarcerated? According to bureau of prisons (work cited 1) in the United States over 1.8 million inmates were prisoned or put behind bar either in a federal, state, or county prison as of late 2013. That is a huge number to talk about. And most of them are sentenced to stay over a year or two in prison. …show more content…
I think that instead of having prisons, we should isolate a small piece of land that needs to be build and have prisoners work on it, and then use those buildings to shelter homeless people. And I think that is one of the reasons why people tend to steal or commit crimes. It is because they don’t have anything in life and they become hopeless. So there are so many things that we can do to fix the prison and inmates problems, we just need to start thinking in a different
In society today, it is commonly known that crime rate has increased dramatically by the years. This is where many of us look for ways to solve such issue. It is the last place anybody would want to be in. but unfortunately we have hundreds of thousands of them, if not millions around the world. Thousands in just the United States, Those are prisons. Just hearing that word makes us think bad things right away. Murder, theft, violence, and everything bad that happens in this world. We live in a world where prisons and jail are very important and almost every country, state, county, or city must have at least one. Prisons now are much more crowded than they were 20 years ago. The number of inmates in just the United States has doubled between the years of 1992 and 2011. The question many of us should ask ourselves is why do we need prisons? Are prisons effective in any way? Are prisons causing economic issues? Are prisoners getting proper treatment while incarcerated? According to bureau of prisons (work cited 1) in the United States over 1.8 million inmates were prisoned or put behind bar either in a federal, state, or county prison as of late 2013. That is a huge number to talk about. And most of them are sentenced to stay over a year or two in prison. …show more content…
I think that instead of having prisons, we should isolate a small piece of land that needs to be build and have prisoners work on it, and then use those buildings to shelter homeless people. And I think that is one of the reasons why people tend to steal or commit crimes. It is because they don’t have anything in life and they become hopeless. So there are so many things that we can do to fix the prison and inmates problems, we just need to start thinking in a different