With these improvements comes the fact that our prisons are too small for the amount of people that are being put in jail, this includes county, state, as well as federal. We can also blame our overpopulation on the fact that crime rates fluctuate such as what we are seeing in our country now. With a bad economy comes more crime, people get desperate in times of need and will do whatever it takes to put food on the table or pay the bills to have a roof over their heads. Another negative aspect of overpopulating our prison system is the fact that the tax payer gets stuck with the larger bills to house these inmates. Overcrowding of our prisons is a bad situation that will continue to get worse unless our government figures out a solution.
Today's system of capital punishment tolerates many inequalities and injustices. The common arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. Imposing the death penalty is expensive and time consuming. Each year billions of dollars are spent to sentence criminals to death. Perhaps the most frequently raised argument against capital punishment is that of its cost.
And of course none of these are good escape routes from poverty and we all believe in the term "poverty causes crime". But it’s not always the poor who commits crime. Mostly the poor or the middle class people will go after crimes to fulfill their temporary desires. For example raping, stealing and sometimes murder too. Since the low class poor people are not usually educated, they often easily “pushed” into the crimes by the high class people.
A rule that does so little to protect the law as it was made. The exclusionary rule allows criminals to go because evidence was illegally obtained, but what about the victims of the crimes. It is almost a turntable and they have become a victim for a second time. I am going to discuss the three main reasons why we as citizens should get rid of the rule. One is the releasing the guilty back into society, next is the slowing down of the criminal process and the last thing is the behavior and consequence of the police officers involved in the cases.
The imprisonment rate in the United States is ridiculous. People are being incarcerated for petty crimes that do not even deserve the time to sit in prison. The more people that are put into jail, the more money the government has to pay for criminal enforcemen Statistics According to author, Christopher Innes in Corrections Today magazine, “Many people believe that the American Correctional system has become a Hummer – more than America needs and increasingly more than it can afford” (The Simple Solution For Reducing Correctional Costs, 02-2010). In other words, America is spending more money on supervision and incarceration for inmates and former inmates when they really do not have the necessary funds to do so. In 1980, there were 1.84 million people under some form of correctional observation, 30 years later, more than 7.5 million people were incarcerated, and that was a 5.66 million difference.
My opinion is that I feel if someone is arrested for a non-violent crime they should be treated differently as far as consequences go for many reasons. First of all it costs us, the tax payers a huge amount of money to send someone to prison and the jails and prisons are already so overcrowded and out of control to begin with. We live in a society where crime is very high due to many reasons such as the economy, being poor and desperate and lack of jobs. Breaking the law is breaking the law and committing a crime is just that, committing a crime. There has to be a consequence for breaking laws and committing crimes for anyone.
In the United States, the promise of “justice for all” is for many citizens too often just a promise. At almost each point at which individuals enter the system – from the moment of initial arrest, to courtroom proceedings, and eventual re-entry, the criminal justice system badly needs reform. Though constitutionally entitled to counsel, many citizens charged with criminal conduct face court proceedings without benefit of reliable counsel. Defended rights are not equal, a wealthy defended has the resources to hire a private counsel and experts, where as the poor only have access to public defenders. Although equality of justice has long been an ideal of the American system of jurisprudence, it is manifestly impossible of realization.
In our society it is assumed we are all treated equally, but in fact many times this is not true. Minority individuals have a disadvantage in the criminal justice system because of the lack of money, and effective resources. This is very damaging to society and may be a root cause for so many disparity issues today. Factors of Racial Disparity Society cannot be run for the privileged and allow a substantial proportion of the population to be an allowance beyond what is needed. This impacts the quality of life for all of us if we have to “throw away people.”A justice system that tolerates injustice is doomed to collapse (The Sentencing Project, 2000).
In the eyes of the general public, “once a criminal, always a criminal” but this is an unfair assumption to make. For years the getting tough on crime approach has been very popular among politicians because criminal activity is looked down upon by virtually everyone in society and politicians use this to try and gain support for their party. When you think about getting tough on crime, things like longer harsher sentences are ways to crack down on offenders but there is no real evidence that increasing the penalties for crimes actually works to prevent them from happening. Overall getting tough on crime does not work because harsher sentences do not impact criminals, it costs the tax payers a lot of money and our society today does nothing to prevent crime in the first place. The first reason why getting tough on criminals does not work is because for the most part, they are not deterred You must Login to view the entire essay.
“Time behind bars can lead to deterioration in a worker’s “human capital,” including formal education, on- the- job experience, and even “soft skills,” such a punctuality or customer relations, (Schmitt & Warner, 2011). Most employers are reluctant to hire applicants with criminal records which impact the re-entry programs. The impact on reentry programs is instrumental to the high rates of recidivism in the United States. Barriers to employment: “The major States of the Union allows employers to deny jobs to citizens with criminal records”, as reported by the (2004) Legal Action Center. Holzer et al., (2003) suggest “certain occupations legally closed to individuals with felony convictions under state law as well as federal law”.