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Solve This Problem Prison Overcrowding
545 wordsIn todays society criminals have learned that unless they are involved in a serious crime, their punishment will not be sever. Almost all long-term sentences have to deal with felons who have committed serious offenses. So were do we draw the line on giving out short-term sentences to criminals. Prison overcrowding has become a big issue lately, and lots of money has been spent to try to solve this problem. There are a few right answers to this problem and a few wrong ones. One answer sounds log...
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Prison Overcrowding Repeat Offenders
1,132 wordsImagine being cramped into a small room with barely enough space for two, where you and five others are squeezed in. The smell of sweat and urine wreaks havoc on your nose. Every time you try to move you touch the person next to you. You have no space to stretch. The air is heavy and hot from all the body heat. To make things worse you cant leave the room for another twenty four hours. How much longer can this last? you think to yourself. Then you remember you still have six years left before yo...
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U S Government Prison Overcrowding
635 wordsImprisonment Eric Schlosser in his article The Prison Industrial Complex examines the problem of prison overcrowding. While the correctional officers see danger in prison overcrowding, others see the opportunity to use prisoners labor. According to him, there are approximately 1. 8 million Americans behind bars, being nonviolent offenders in their majority, which mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers. In general, American prisons have more people than any other world count...
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Prison Overcrowding Violent Crimes
1,356 wordsPrisons in the United States are overcrowded. The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world. There are more than one million people in the United States that are in a correctional facility. The causes for overcrowding include little attention given to social problems, glorification of violence, an epidemic of drug abuse, and mandatory sentencing guidelines. The average cost to house a prisoner in a correctional facility is approximately $ 25, 000 per year. There is also...
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Violent Criminals Prison Overcrowding
948 wordsEvery House Arrest House Arrest Every year, state and federal prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent criminals. This puts pressure on parole boards to release criminals who under normal circumstances would not be released due to the nature of their crimes. Each States Department of Corrections has to spend more of taxpayers money each year for prison maintenance, correctional officers and prison healthcare. The problem of prison over population can easily be put under control with the im...
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