A recent report on National Public Radio, once again forced me to the huge problem of prison population increasing in the United States into account. The report shows that for every 100 Americans, 1 person in prison or jail.
According to the Pew Center for the States, the United States now have a captive adults of 99.1 adults in the United States. Of a total of 230 million American adults, our prison population is 2,319,258 Only America has the record of bad taste. Weimprison more of our citizens, such as Russia, China, also communist, the billions of people, but only 1.5 million Chinese prisoners.
So while the plan to dismiss China human rights conference to deal with the Chinese government to us that we have a 1 per cent of the adult population behind bars.
People are a lot of our precious human resources to languish in jails, prisons and rehabilitation centers throughout the country to freedom. Costa billionU.S. dollar to keep the Americans locked. The 50 States of the United States spend a total of $ 49 million a year in prison. Twenty years ago, cost less than $ 11 million.
In a recent town hall meeting, Governor Steve Beshir said that the costs of the state of Kentucky, $ 20,000 per year to incarcerate a person. In 2007, Kentucky led the nation to increase the number of prisoners. Beshir governor said that although the crime rate in Kentucky has reached 3 percent only in the last 30Years, the state prison population increased by 600 per cent higher.
In fact, the real number is higher than the government estimates of $ 20,000 per prisoner. Kentucky, which had 3000 prisoners in 1973, now has 22,000 inmates in 2008, and the government has spent 500 million dollars a year to take these prisoners. When you do the math, which costs taxpayers about $ 22,727 from Kentucky to an inmate for one year in prison.
Here's another observation, sad by the researchers: the number ofOccupant further. The female prisoners increased by 2.5 percent between 2006 and mid 2007 for a total of 115,308 women in U.S. jails and prisons. Seems to be very high? Growing by leaps and bounds.
A prison for women, the reformers of Ohio, 2300 houses of women, many of them mothers. I do not like that name, "recovery"? The truth is that reform is very little going on behind the walls of American prisons. The recurrence rate seems to be blocked as beforeabout 85 percent means that for every 100 people who returned from prison, released 85 of them will go to prison. These huge doors of prison industries simply oscillates back and forth.
To his credit, the relief of overcrowding women in Ohio to meet the demand for more female crime, the year 1000 beds. It is said that 1,000 beds are waiting, but we know that the beds "," is really "a woman." So the prison for beating another 1,000 women entering prisonHigh school.
Our choice of euphemism for the prison industry shows that there really is something that affects many of our fellow prisoners. The ballooning prison population shows some of our nakedness, as a society, we have found a way to purge the visual language of this dilemma: reform of the Department of Corrections, Correctional Facility, prison, etc.
We are ashamed to call us what they are? Because we do not trust usThat is, prisons? What is the "fixed" things, like the prisoners who are their students to test levels (as amended), received from their teachers? We prefer that somehow minimized to reduce the impact on our collective social psyche, the punitive aspect of the business prison. But no matter use what we call the language of race to crime and punishment system, there will be nothing more important to reverse the trend of most of our citizens held in prisonCells.
It is high time that he began to call the prison in the United States are in reality – the largest country in the world hell holes. By semantics, we can begin to see the seriousness of the problem that a growing number of prisoners in this society. Calling prisons for the punishment they deserve names. Maybe you can only prick the social conscience of our adoption of measures to reduce the population explosion of these filmsWaste of human resources.
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