Statistics show that two out of three of the people release from prison will end up
right back there again. This should be enough to show that the prison system is failing with
the integration of inmates back in to real life. How is it right for the correctional facilities to
think isolation, segregation, and overcrowding could possibly benefit the crime rate?
Instead of converting these inmates into proper citizens, the system has found ways to hold
them down. To suppress their inspiration to change. For many inmates, being in prison
does not help them in any way at all and is a waste of time and money for thousands of
inmates and also employers.
The prisons in the united states are the perfect place for violence. When these places
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This makes them converse and the murderer has nothing to loose so he of course
tries to convince the harmless criminal to be like him also. This is a perfect example of the
way that the prison system doesn’t help the people, but harms them and turns them into
the worst kinds of people.
Another flaw in the correctional system is the staff that they hire to “protect the
inmates”. For example on shows like Beyond Scared Straight you can see how the
correctional officers push the inmates to their limits and make them lash out at them.
Something else is that the officers also do not try to stop fights until they are deadly,
turning an inmate that could have simply been defending himself into a murderer. Deadly
fights break out every day in the prisons and if the correctional officers were doing their
jobs they would stop it before it got to that point of no return.
Something else that is a big issue in the prison system would be segregation. Gangs
of each race are already formed in the prison system. If you’re lucky they will leave you
alone and let you be by yourself. But most of the time when a new inmate come in he is a
big target for all of the gangs, the ones of his “kind” will attempt to recruit them and