Disconnection Between People And No More Prisons

In the article, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander vigorously argues the means in which the American prison system has become a redesigned form of disenfranchisement for poor people of color, while comparing it to the racially motivated Jim Crow laws. Alexander begins the article by making powerful assumptions about the readers; she states that “[racial caste] is [the subject] that most Americans seem content to ignore”. Although this may offend the readers, she includes a personal narrative explaining her initial disbelief to the “new racial caste system” and by doing so, Alexander displays how easily it is for one to deny controversial issues on race without proper knowledge on the subject. Moreover, the use of personal narrative makes

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As the subjects of this isolation and imprisonment are all minorities, this strongly shows how societies prevent certain groups from escaping social constructs and from advancing into better lives. These minority groups include the poor class, those who are act differently, and African Americans. Though other minorities are merely hidden away and ignored, the African Americans are both trapped and severely judged and mistreated. Even today, those of different race are among the most mistreated minorities. Societies feel they cannot simply ignore those who are visibly different, they feel the need to punish them as well, such as falsely accusing them of a crime they did not commit.

A person’s identity is related to the degree of inequality experienced by an individual, which is directly related to the larger social group the person belongs to. In John Oliver’s segment on mandatory prison sentences, Oliver outlined the direct impact the political dimension of American government has on inequality. While Barack Obama has pardoned an unprecedented amount of prisoners, often convicted for petty drug related crimes, tough on crime laws passed during the 80’s and 90’s has led to mass incarceration. Oliver points out that marijuana related crime could have a minimum sentence of 55 years, while terrorist related crimes could carry half of the minimum sentence. African American’s in the United States are also ten times more likely to be convicted on these crimes, contributing to the inequality of race in the country.

The United States prison system is considered today to be one of the most flawed and corrupt systems of the modern world. Given this fact, it is unsurprising that one of the most talked about issues in the US today is prison reform. Prison reform is a phrase which refers to the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establishing a more effective penal system, or implementing alternatives to incarceration. The US has spent the past twenty years gradually working to improve its prisons, and even recently strives to better the federal and state prison system as a whole. One of the main goals of prison reform is reducing recidivism, which is the chance of an incarcerated person re-offending. One of the main ways to do this is to give inmates ways to spend their time that will better them and prepare them to re-enter society as a fully productive, rehabilitated citizen. This facet of prison reform is the basis for the Prison Reform and Redemption Act of 2017. This bill, which was to be reviewed on Wednesday, April 25 but is

Research Question No. 1 - Did Three Strikes You're Out contribute to the problem of mass incarceration and overcrowded jails and prisons?

Why prisoners need to go to the prison? I can never forget the scene in The Shawshank Redemption, which Brooks Halten finally committed to suicide when he was released after 50 years life incarceration. The form of mass incarceration, prison, is supposed to be the place where prisoners can rehabilitate in order to return into society. Ex-offenders aren’t eligible for public welfare such as Medicaid and public housing (Stevenson, 2012). They are legally discriminated against when applying for appropriate jobs (Stevenson, 2012). So the issue rises: prisoners rehabilitate for what? To be thrown back into economy without jobs? To go back into communities without hope? If modern mass incarceration isn’t primarily concerning with rehabilitating prisoners, what is its purpose? Why the prisons are continuing in expansion? Whose interests do prisons serve?

In 2011, I spent time serving in prisons with a church organization who’s goal was to change the systemic problems within the prison system. This caused me to examine all aspects of inequality and oppression that disproportionately affects people of color.

Over the past few decades, the United States has witnessed a huge surge in the number of individuals in jail and in prison. Evidence suggests the mass imprisonment policy from the last 40 years was a horrible catastrophe. Putting more people in prison not only ruined lives, it disrupted families, prevented ex-prisoners to find housing, to get an education, or even a good job. Regrettably, the United States has a higher percent of its population incarcerated than any other country. America is responsible for a quarter of the world’s inmates, and its incarceration rate is increasing exponentially. The expense produced by these overcrowded prisons cost the country a substantial amount of money every year. Although people are incarcerated for a number of reasons, the country’s prisons are focused on punishment rather than reform, and the result is a misguided system that fails to rehabilitate criminals or discourage crime. By researching mass incarceration, I hope to get society to understand that incarcerating an individual not only effects the family, but we will look at the long term consequences on society and how the United States can remain safe and, at the same time, undo much of the damage that results from large-scale imprisonment.

As seen throughout the history of the United States, there has always been a degree of exploitation by politicians in regards to crime that is meant to direct public attention and unease. Over the last four and a half decades the U.S. prison population has grown to more than six times it’s former size. Socially speaking, the impact on certain social groups within the U.S. population cannot be overstated (Gottschalk, 2009).

There is no question that mass incarceration is a worldwide epidemic that needs to be discussed and addressed. America has five percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s prison population (Just Leadership USA, 2017) Various policies dated back centuries helped to create this problem of mass incarceration (Just Leadership USA, 2017). Today there are 2.3 million Americans incarcerated throughout the state, local, and federal jails (Just Leadership USA, 2017). New York City (NYC) houses approximately 10,000 inmates per year; 43.7% of these inmates are diagnosed with having a mental health disability (New York City Department of Corrections, 2017). 54% of the inmates on Rikers Island are arrested for a minor offense and should be able to fight their cases from home; however, in many instances the family members are of low socio-economic status and unable to post bail (New York City Department of Corrections, 2017). Minor offenses include loitering, jumping the turnstiles, unnecessary Parole / Probation violations, and trespassing. In many instances, it is the mentally ill and homeless individuals who are arrested for trespassing as they elect to sleep in the subways instead of taking residency in a shelter. Moreover, many of these offenses does not have to result in an arrest. Police officers have the autonym to let some of these individuals go with a warning, desk ticket, and/or summons.

With the population of the United States prisons growing every day we need to evaluate if they are doing any good. Personally, I believe that we need to keep our prison system, but we need to take steps in reforming them rather than abolish them altogether. The United States has the highest number of incarcerated people than any other country in the world. We must sit down and look at other countries and see what they are doing different than the United States. In this paper, we will first look at what the prison system in America is like and what we can do to improve upon our prison system. Then, we will also look at the Finland prison systems and see if we can learn anything from them, since they have one of the lowest incarceration and crime rate in the world. We will then look at reforming our prison system or abolishing it. Finally, we will investigate other punishment alternatives other than the prison system that we could use.

Prison reform is a significant issue that the United States government should enforce. It would aid in creating a more organized system of incarceration. Prison reform is an attempt to improve, change, or eliminate certain conditions in prisons. It is believed that it should be enforced due to the cases of overcrowding, lack of proper education, and the lack of rehabilitation that could inform prisoners of societal values. Prison reform would increase the self-esteem that was diminished in the prisoner’s personal history. Prison reform is significantly important as it will heighten the amount of self-worth in the prisoner and cause a decrease in the population of prisoners who return to a life of crime. Recidivism, or chance of recommitting a crime, will therefore be reduced. Prisoner who are released will not have all the negative ideals or influence from the prison that is usually spread until their release. Prison reform will help society if the increase in education and decrease in overcrowding is ensued upon the prison system with this policy.

When you think of drugs we think of illegal substances that are harmful to the human body, but that isn't the case for ever drug. One of the most common, Marijuana the divered cannabis sativa plant that contains over 100 Cannabinoids or chemical compounds was first brought over to the United States in the 1900s after the Mexican Revolution, where many of people coming from Mexico brought over marijuana. Marijuana has many positive effects of a person such as Decreasing anxiety, Prevents Alzheimer's and does more good than harm, many people do and can benefit from this plant, not just people but the country as a whole.

There have been 16 amendments to the constitution of Bangladesh.Every amendment has a great impact on Bangladeshi politics and economic scenario. But there have been some major amendments which tremendously changed political and economic situation of Bangladesh such as4th, 8th,10th, 11th, 12th,13th,15th,16th. In my assignment I will show the amendments and behind political economy behind the amendments.