Education vs. Incarceration Since 1980‚ the U.S. prison population has grown exponentially‚ expanding from approximately 500‚000 to 2.3 million people in just three decades. America now has the distinction of leading the world in prison population: We account for 25 percent of all prisoners but only 5 percent of the global population. We spend almost $70 billion annually to place adults in prison and jails‚ to confine youth in detention centers‚ and to supervise 7.3 million individuals on probation
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violence and addiction. Their main course book “Houses of Healing” guides them down a road where they learn better ways to cope in society and learn about themselves as a result. They’re given an opportunity to learn that they aren’t defined by the crimes they’ve committed but instead by the person they are and is a wonderful way to change the mindset of a person who thinks they’ll never be any better than they already
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The concept of incarceration started to emerge in the United States as a form of control over minorities. This began shortly after the end of slavery and targeted freed slaves to provide free labor during prison. This system of large scale prisons continued to gain popularity after the large spike in drug use around the 1960’s and 1970’s. The problems we have today with mass incarceration is due to our deteriorating criminal justice system which originally provided rehabilitation programs and
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mandatory life sentences for some juvenile crimes. The much divided Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences were unconstitutional and as a result has sparked vigorous debate as many have joined the conversation regarding how juveniles are treated in prison and if our current system is working. Despite the fierce debate‚ current science and statistics seems to favor one side over the other. The current United States legal system is clearly flawed as alternative systems are superior‚ the current system
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every 111 white women. (2010 Census) Research done by social scientist has concluded that the criminal justice system has profound and integral effects on certain communities that are most heavily impacted by the uneven incarceration rates. Systematic racism and mass incarceration is not a new tactic; it is a tactic that was at first called slavery but now has a new “race-blind” name.
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Mass incarceration started in the 1980s‚ when the war on drugs arose. The U.S. prison system is a failure on every level. There are a total of 2‚418‚352 federal and state prisons in the United States and 2.3 million people occupy them. According to California
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In The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander’s argument that Mass Incarceration is‚ metaphorically‚ the new Jim Crow is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem a system of racial and social control that is prevalent in the United States today. Although I agree with Alexander generally‚ I cannot accept her overriding assumption that Mass Incarceration is the only system of oppression contributing to the new system of oppression that has been emerging since the so-called end of
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Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Eric Lemar AJS/502 February 2‚ 2015 William Miller Crime Prevention through Environmental Design When Crimes are commited and we hear about them on the news‚ we often receive basic information on the crime including who‚ what‚ when‚ and where. We however never are given information as to why this may have happened. As both Police Departments and Researchers study the crime questions always arise as to what could be done to prevent it
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Mass incarceration has many costs associated with it besides for the punishment of the offender. For many people‚ they have no idea how badly an incarceration can destroy someones entire life‚ and family. Mass incarceration affects everyone‚ the offender‚ their family‚ and the entire community as a whole. I believe that there are three major consequences and costs that are encored by mass incarceration‚ and they each effect either the offender‚ their family‚ or the seemingly unrelated community
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Slavery and Mass Incarceration 12/6/2010 The institution of slavery dates back before written records. The term slave was originally a derivative from the historical French and Latin medieval word for Slavic people of central and Eastern Europe. [ (wikipedia‚ 2010) ] In North America‚ the class system is systematically at the root of every socioeconomic and political issue resulting in Super companies‚ multibillionaires and the formation of lobbyists and special interest groups; there always has
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