Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime? How well do our prisons reform prisoners? What are the alternatives to prison? What is the best‚ most cost-effective way of protecting the public? These are some of the questions raised by individuals who are legitimately concerned not only with where their tax dollars are going‚ but also with what is being done to break the cycle of crime within their representative communities. When prisons were first introduced to our society
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Mass Incarceration is based off of the dissemination and separation of citizens of color from their families and steady profit off the labor of inmates. This organized system was created to profit the government and low lying companies‚ targeting ethnic groups based off poverty levels and color. This system is prominent‚ mass incarceration was deprived off of slavery‚ it also criminalizes colored people and limits resources and availability of jobs‚ food stamps‚ and housing.The economic dependability
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and legal scholar. In recent years‚ she has taught at a number of universities‚ including Stanford Law School‚ where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. Alexander published the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. In it‚ she argues that systemic racial discrimination in the United States has resumed following the Civil Rights Movement’s gains; the resumption is embedded in the US War on Drugs and other governmental policies
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The purpose of this paper is to seek incarceration in society by addressing who what how when and where‚ on the subject of matter. My argument of the United States population being sheltering in warehouse of society known as the penitentiary system is wrong. United States’ prison population are
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During George H. Bush ‘s presidency 1989 -1993 there was again a surge in incarceration. His campaign exacerbated and like his predecessors criminalized the black person. The presidential campaign criminalization was specific in the name of Willie Horton but was generalized as all black persons. Former President Bush’s campaign was to be “tough on Crime”. The rate of incarcerated persons went from 759‚000 to 1‚279‚200. Yes‚ another reason for the increase in prisons and due to the vast increase most
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The modern prison was devised by American reformers who believed that people should not be tortured and that criminals could be "reformed" by incarceration‚ labor‚ and "penitence." But with the rise of industrial capitalism‚ unpaid prison labor became a source of superprofits‚ a trend accelerated by the Civil War‚ and the "penitentiary" became the site of industrial slavery conducted under the whip and other savagery. Prior to the Civil War‚ the main form of imprisonment--African-American slavery--was
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sentencing‚ systematic racism‚ and mass incarceration of colored people. While the War on Drugs has certainly sought to eradicate controlled substances and destroy the networks established for their distribution‚ State efforts to control drugs are also a way for dominant groups to express racial power.Despite the socioeconomic factors that contribute to drug use‚ it is evident that drug legislation is inherently biased and fuels racially motivated mass incarceration. Although persons suffering economic
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Incarceration rates in The United States have grown drastically and are rapidly increasing. About 5% of the population will‚ on average‚ serve a sentence of about 60 months or more in prison . This rise in incarceration rates has disproportionally affected women . From 1988 to 2008‚ the imprisonment rate for women has increased by 600%‚ while for men it has increased by 300% . Currently about 1 million women pass through prisons every year of about 3.2 million arrests. Out of these sentences‚ about
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lingering in the american legal system and or the criminal justice system. In one of the articles that I have read titled Incarceration & Social inequality by Becky Pettit‚ Bryan Sykes‚ and Bruce Western‚ made the statement that american prisons and jails have made a new group of social outcasts and oddballs that are bonded together because they share the same experience with incarceration‚ crime‚ poverty‚ racial minority‚ and low education. As an outcast group‚ those men and women in our penal institutions
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history of rehabilitation within the penal system from its early beginnings in the late 19th century and how it has arrived at its current state. It will explore the different approaches that have been employed to address criminal behaviour and to encourage personal change over this period and the justifications and arguments for doing so. It will also critically discuss the Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) model‚ which at this point in time is the leading model of offender rehabilitation. Exploring
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