Commissary In The Criminal Justice System

As prisons grow in size, governments look for new methods to aid in cutting costs and increase efficiency. Over the last decade government run institutions have been replaced with privately funded, for-profit prisons. Although it is cheaper for governments to run contract based institutions this mass industrialization of the prison system has seen many issues with corruption, decreases in efficiency and even mistreatment and exploitation of incarcerated individuals. The prison system should remain under government control and in this essay I will discuss the faults and errors of for-profit institutions and why this system should not be overseen by private corporations.

The economic components associated with maintaining and operating public prisons in the U.S. has become a prominent topic in recent years. Many anti-prison activist such a Angela Y. Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore contend that the involvement of private corporations and the prevailing social ideology have contributed to the radical expansion of prisons in America.

Anderson, G. M. (2000, November 18). Prisons for Profit: Some ethical and practical problems. America, 183(16), 12

Throughout mankind, the ideas of avarice and prosperity have pushed companies to work harder, although sometimes this can come with a price. Corruption infiltrates all manners of society like government and industries and the American prison system is no different. Since America must provide housing for those who are incarcerated, they build one prison per week due to the increased rate of criminals (Franklin). Many peoples’ crimes do not fit their punishment and additionally the duration of the punishment does not match the crime committed. Why is that? The corruption of state and local governments have an incentive to maintain a certain population within prisons. This is a current conflict within the United States. Therefore, state and local governments should not have the power to dictate the amount people who reside in America’s prisons. Further, financial incentives from companies should be banned from influencing the population of prisons.

“A Woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” Known as the reluctant first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt demonstrated how strong she was while holding various titles. During her lifetime, she was a politician, diplomat, writer, activist, mother, and wife. Eleanor Roosevelt made impacts on the United States during her life before the White House, her life as the First Lady, and after her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s, death.

This type of ownership and management of prisons, though not new, only began again in recent history in the 1980's. The reasons for this development of private prisons are threefold and these three trends converged in the 1980's: the ideological imperatives of the free market, the huge increase in the number of prisoners, and the increase in imprisonment costs (Smith, 1993). In this Reaganite era it seemed that private enterprise could do any job the government had been doing cheaper and more efficiently, including running prisons.

Motivated by profitable outcomes, these companies have made incarceration in the United States “ less about justice, and more about the profit motive” (Morial). The idea of making money off of people because of crimes more or less petty crimes are easy targets in the judicial system. Business corporations and political figures, who have high ordinance of power, make the belief of finding the best and most profitable solutions to the economy through prisons. They use free labor of prisoners as equity to their own monetary advantage, which puts them on the upper hand in government and with other corporations that sway political decisions. Monetary values direct how prison systems are ran to build up commission for legislation and

American Prisons poorly represent our criminal justice system; due to not have clearly outlined goals associated for its offenders. Also, look at the cost to lock up and house this country’s offenders, it has increased significantly over the past few decades. With the two above stated issues, we have a huge problem in America. Other countries look at our justice system as though we have got it figured out and, we may have a better idea of Justice than most countries, because, well we are no longer chopping off hands for stealing anymore. While there are some prisons that are too harsh, there are some that make life way too easy. Therefore, we must create a baseline for all prisons in this country. In order to decrease the percentages of repeat offenders and expedite the out-processing of small time criminals, American prisons are in dire need of help, especially

I will approach the writings of Angela Davis and Wilson Gilmore by comparing their theories on the profit motive behind the recent upward trend in the rate of incarcerated individuals in the United States in the past thirty years. To do so, I will analyze Davis ' essay on the prison industrial complex, paying special attention to the ways in which she relates the formation of privately run correctional facilities to the recent rising trend of the national prison population. Second, I

Crime rates are down in America, yet there is an unproportionately large number of Americans incarcerated. This paper will delve into and examine this problem and how it is closely linked to private prisons and the issues surrounding them. While private prisons claim to be cost effective and well-run, evidence has shown that these profit-driven companies ignore ethical consequences by purposefully lengthening prisoners’ sentences, target certain groups for incarceration and maintain despicable living standards for the prisoners; ultimately, these prisons have caused more harm than good for the state.

The privatization of prisons serves as a solution to economic problems. Privatization essentially allows for large corporations, such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group Inc, to profit from caging humans. State governments allow corporations to buy local prisons because privatization lifts the fiscal responsibilities of the states. While privatization eliminates a financial burden from states, it comes with great compromises. For example, the Lake Erie Correctional Institute was the first prison purchased by a for-profit corporation: the CCA. When the CCA purchased the prison, the city of Conneaut, Ohio faced many hardships. Almost immediately, many long-time employees of the prison were fired. The CCA replaced experienced employees

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These private prison corporations have previously worked corporations, lawmakers and worked with interest groups that advocate for prison privatization through the group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a non profit group that advocates for free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty (Mason, “Too Good to be True”). CCA was a member of this

The United States have been using private prison for many years. The use of private prisons has steered up a huge controversy worldwide. The main two private prison companies are CAA and the Geo Group, Inc. The idea for the use of private prisons is that the government will save more money. However, the evidence has been mixed over the years on whether the use of private prisons saves money or not. There have been cases where private prisons have cost more than state prison. Also, the use of private prisons has been associated with various cases of health issues and acts of violence. This problem qualifies as a criminal justice issue because of the amount of money that private prison companies are receiving from the amount

The United States Criminal Justice System is an extremely complex, but yet extremely important part of the United States. The criminal justice system is defined as “the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws). Although there are many different groups of people that make up the criminal justice system, the two main and most discussed the state division or the federal division. The state division of the criminal justice system deals with crimes that are committed within any given states boundaries. The federal division of the criminal justice system deals with crimes that are committed on property owned by the government, or if a crime is committed in multiple states.