The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Our country has only 5% of the world’s population, yet we incarcerate 25% of the world’s prisoners. In real numbers, that statistic translates into 2.3 million people behind bars. There are currently five times as many people incarcerated now than there were in 1970. (CILENTI, 2015) Since the 80’s you are able to see a rise in Mass Incarceration system in America. The accelerating rate of which people are being put in to prison is starting” in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven hundred and thirty-one.”(Gopnik, 2015) with this rise …show more content…
Knowing different state are saying they don’t have money for education but they find the money to build this prison where the logic in that. America had two million people behind bars and another five million on parole this is the highest in the entire world why is that? If we would like to turn to low level of incarceration then states are going to have to release four out of five people behind bars today. (Bloom, 2012) “Nonviolent offenders are 60% of our prison population”. If we release half of the nonviolent offenders that are in prison we would be able to put 17 billion dollar back into other funds each year. There almost no prison that or vocational programs and children left behind in fatherless homes because there father went to prison. So most of the time the child will follow in the fathers footsteps (Bloom, 2012). This also leads to the problem of the cause of being put in jail. Most people who are put into jail over minor crime are more likely to go back to prison. This is because their mental state is harden when they are in prison. The prisoners don’t know how to cope when they get out so they commit another crime. (Bloom,