After prison is it societies fault that 60-70% of people go back to jail? Does prison provide a nice home for former inmates that make them return or does society make it so hard on released felons that make them resort to crime to survive? Does bad credit, inability to get a job/make a living, bad reputation, the ostracizing of former inmates, and change in lifestyle make it nearly impossible for people to stay clean? Maybe we need to focus on how to make prison more efficient because the statistics are shocking, this is also a lot of tax payer money going into this so if we were able to fix the prisons we would be paying less money for them and of course have less crime. The most profitable American industry is the privately run prison industry. That sounds a little weird to me as well.
According to www.ojp.usdoj.gov the Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 was Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.
So do you think we need a better system? We can avoid so much, if only...
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rpr94.htm
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa060702a.htm
and to see The Business of Correctional Facilities
http://thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/the-business-of-correctional
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Without a doubt, the system needs to be reformed. The government is wasting gobs of money just on this one issue. They need to seek better methods of keeping people out shoorter that commit petty crimes or that are there for short amounts of time. Also, they need to find better ways of correcting prisoners, hence correctional facilities. I think the money used just to dump these people in a secluded area in order to keep them isolated from the rest of society ought to be used in a better manner.
ReplyDeleteThese statistics are shocking and I think that we do need to revise the system because it is obviously not working out. I don’t understand why the U.S. is making tax payers pay around 27,000 dollars per person per year to leave them in jail, that’s too much money in my opinion. I don’t see how the government is letting this go on, well they are making money and for them that’s all that matters, but it I wrong to do that and I don’t see why people why are in jail need 27000 dollars a year to survive, they should definitely lower that price.
ReplyDeleteThe system is obviously not working, because if so many of the people that are released go out and do another crime, there is obviously a fault in the system. But I don’t really blame them considering the more stuff you do, the better your rep is, and after having gone to jail it would be almost impossible to find a job, so I don’t see why people wouldn’t resort to more violence and drugs to make a living. Also its not like we actually help the prisoners to get better, all we do is put them in a room and hope that when they finally get out they won’t do it again for having the fear of having to sit in a room and get free health care. It’s so annoying how people in jail get free health care and we don’t, do they really deserve it, after committing a crime? I don’t think so and the system needs to be changed.