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.

Despite its small population of only 70.0000 residents, Camden (New Jersey), was among the top 10 most dangerous cities in the United States for more than half a century, with few gaps. In fact, the crime rate in Camden rarely went out of time, the city has its infamous reputation of criminal convictions in 1949. E 'was the year in which a strike, Howard Unruh killed 13 people in 12 minutes to kill the sad record of so many people put in so short a time – moreone per minute! – And so the first serial killer known episodes in the modern history of the United States.

If you look at the city in recent years, only the history of crime and violence, while the total of 7639 serious crimes reported in 2000 in Camden. In 2002, cites the FBI Uniform Crime Report Camden, New Jersey, have recognized 607 cases of robbery and 797 cases of serious injury, almost double the national average.

The statistics of crime in 2004 classifiedCamden, New Jersey as the country's crime rate higher than third place in the city in 2003. The ranking takes into account the rate of crime in a town in the category of crimes, crimes of 6 base, such as murder, rape constitutes robbery, assault, burglary and theft of motor vehicles. In 2004, Camden in all categories in the statistics for the same offense in 2003. More specifically, the murder rate of almost 9 times the national average of 5.7 per 100,000 population indicated. Private fundsResearch in 2004 against the 354 municipalities with a population base of 75,000.

"We have our people work, training needs and opportunities," said City Councilor Ali Sloan-El has spoken to audiences in 2005. The official identified poverty and unemployment as the main food of crime Camden community. According to the Office of Camden also has a position in the list of the poorest cities in America.

ButBe considered founded in 2005 by the police and the Council in inspiring some good hope for the improvement of public safety, because many actions of the police. In fact, the beginning of 2005 has seen, from January to March, 24 per cent reduction in crime in Camden, including the reasons for the optimism of the community when more and more city officials announced BEFORE.THE which launched an aggressive program to combat crime, proven technology as a mapping of crime. "

HopedNewark forward, had another former leader of the violent crime rate in America began with the similar project in 1996. "Crime Mapping" model could be applied to Newark a reduction of 43 per cent of the drama of crime reported in fact already in 1998. There was no reason to doubt that it would be promising too much work for Camden, mainly because of Inc. Magazine in early 2004, the city of Camden, at number 6 in 277 major cities, such as, for example, were morePlace-to-business had begun to make the invisible movement of literally pour investments in infrastructure in the city, was designed to end poverty and unemployment and to solve serious crimes in the city. Although not an expert or the analyst expects immediate results, and hopes for a better life, there is still hope.

Three years have passed since then. So what do we do now?

Not the end of 2008 in Camden has been a marked declineActs of violence such as aggravated assault, rape and robbery with firearms. On the other hand, reported 48 homicides, compared to 42 in 2007. The first six months of the year was performed as death and serious injury Camden Mane danger of breaking his personal record of 12 years, from 58 homicides in 1995.

Despite some improvements have taken place, progress is not even close to what is planned for 2005. Sad to say, but keeps Camdenfirmly maintain its reputation as a drowned city of violence on the streets. In an attempt to keep the situation under control, the police are trying to arrest for minor offenses like public drinking-making, loud music, walking among all the so-called quality of life crimes. These arrests are the prevention of serious crimes and serves as a sort of warning to potential perpetrators. But is not it?

The tactic followed later by police in Camdenthe last 2 months from the end of October 2008 seems a skeptical public about the effectiveness of expanding. People ask if the police hoped to avoid by the way, the acts of murder or drug trafficking with the arrest of people for a walk. Fines are imposed against the arrest of vagrants, many of them can not pay, and record profits, have been arrested or issued warrants will begin to appear in the reports of previous work before making it more difficult tofind a job and may even lead to finding a job, at least in the vicinity.

Everyone likes to believe that their community to live in a safe place, and people pour over statistics to prove it. Business associations use the data carefully and will be something like the safest city in Texas, when in reality there were several violent crimes that year, but if you ask them they will say something like we have less burglaries and thefts, as they always report in Texas, and that's a big state, so that you know that we are among the safest in the entireNation.

Well, a friend of mine from Bozeman, MT tells us that it is the safest city in America, and he even sent the police blotter as follows: police reports, 9 Bozeman Chronicle June show:

"The police support officers Montana State University with a duck that attacked another near the duck pond on campus. A boy tipped over a porta-potty at Kirk Park around 1 pm His parents were notified, and the portable was used, its upright position back and cleaned. A man sent"drunken texts" to his ex-girlfriend and her daughter, and that the news "she creeping out." "

It is hard to say what is actually the safest city in the entire United States, because this is one of the safest countries in the world. Of course, my friend in Bozeman MT is rather fond of his city and he pursued his observations and police blotter news with this comment: "I'm not making this up folks. Wish you were here …… Jon."

Well, okay, maybe Bozeman MT is, in fact, the safestCity, I do not know, but suffice it to say, if you are looking for a great place to raise a family, and that it is indeed a very good option.