The Pros And Cons Of Prison Reform

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Across the United States, over two million adult individuals serve time behind bars and although the U.S. is not the country with the largest population; it holds 40% of prison population. The United States has become widely known as the country with the highest incarceration rates and as the number of inmates continues to rise, as do the number of children without mothers and fathers, wives without husbands and mothers without sons. Men make up for 90% of the inmate population and the injustices of the court system reek with irony as a mask of justice for all. There have been many calls for prison reform and just as many political figures who claim to be “hard on crime” and there is yet to be any major improvement. With the current political