The Pros And Cons Of Federal Prisons

Around the world, when someone commits a crime of any sort, this person is been judged and placed in a prison. This method has been used for thousands of years. Although in the past, killing was also used as punishment against some crimes that were consider unforgivable. As people evolved, killing someone for a crime became and felt inhuman, so as result, death sentence has become less popular and some can say even rare. In exchange, more prisons were built and this became a norm. The world we live in today is filled with different problems and issues that are needed to be addressed. Some people take it upon themselves to do something about these issues at other people’s risks. Not thinking about the consequences. Also, we have people that

How are they funded? Looking at Sari’s report, “Federal prison costs represent about one-third of the Justice Department's $27 billion budget. The U.S. population has grown by about a third since 1980, but the federal prison population has increased by about 800 percent and federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent over capacity.” We are faced with the alarming fact that our economy is suffering from all different expenses; one of which are been used on prison, rather than it been spend on economical issues that needs to be addressed. If the government is putting all this funds on keeping people who are causing harm to our society well taken care for, why don’t they also worry more about the triple standard war between the rich, the middle class and the lowest class (the poor)? Not focusing on the fact that if we can fix our daily live economy, and everyone can have a fair living and good life, there would be a lot of people been placed in prison or jails for crimes. Looking at the ideology of crimes, someone would commit a crime are usual because of financial struggles, lack of knowledge, or an unstable mental condition. Repairing the country financial can help and benefit everyone. This reduces the amount of people struggling and feeling the need to do commit crimes. Coming from someone that works and pay her taxes, it is hard enough to keep yourself motivated to keep a job, and seeing

The building of facilities that deal with specific types of crimes may also help the government sort out and organize the criminal law bureaus into different department. These departments will ensure that the same types of crimes are kept together and these will help estimate and keep track of the prisoners’ sentences. Hence, the keeping track of individual prisoners will allow the government to know where to send a prisoner. Avoiding overcrowding and have a knowledge of the space available in each prisons. The creation of space will avoid illnesses and more medical expenses been used. Diseases like Tuberculosis (TB) can be easily acquired in prisons. Based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” [t]he physical structure of correctional facilities that can include close living quarters, overcrowding, and the potential for inadequate ventilation; [i]interruption of therapy caused by the movement of inmates into and out of facilities, and inmates returning to the community; [l]language and cultural barriers, including lack of access to health information and stigma associated with the disease; and [r]relatively high rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among inmates who if co-infected with TB bacteria, are at high risk for progressing from latent TB infection to TB disease. In addition to HIV, other underlying medical conditions may