From the 1980s to contemporary time incarceration rates have nearly quadrupled since; thus far making it 2.3 million incarcerated felons in the United States today. Resulting in mass incarceration throughout the United States in both public and private prisons. Making America one of the largest felony holding countries in the world. Thus making mass incarcerations a problem, when so many individuals are being incarcerated that prisons are being overloaded in unsafe and harsh conditions. Two Authors, Bryan Stevenson and Brad parks, strive to shine a light on the subject of mass incarceration through writing. Bryan Stevenson, author of "Just Mercy" and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, a professor of law at New York University Law School; Brad Parks, author of "How to fix America’s mass incarceration problem" and …show more content…
In Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy ", challenges dawn from inmates being wrongly convicted and immediately sent to death row without their case even being touched by a skilled counsel. Furthermore, when just one in every fifteen people born in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison. It would be difficult to assign a lawyer to each and everyone who is sent to prison. Stevenson mentions of moments when people would call that they had no legal representation and whose execution dates were approaching fast. Similarly, in Brad Parks " how to fix mass incarceration in America", mentions how the prisons do not assist incarcerated felons after finishing their time, by giving them a bus ticket and roughly $60 in cash in their most critical moment of returning society. This is not an effective way of helping a now free man in returning back to society. Parks covers the topic of felons not receiving help differently from Stevenson, in a way that in the aftermath of their prison sentence, their utmost important time, they are forgotten and left