2. How to prevent crime and were to get help

A. Drug offense’s and prison population

Conclusion: Prison is for punishment as well as rehab illation

The u.s. incarceration rate is the highest in the world! As the prison population has been rapidly expanding with a growth average of 5 percent a year. Acording to Meek, J.G "Currently there are over 1,987,000 inmates incarcerated across the U.S." (pg 1) this amounts to about one of every 147 Americans are living in prisons. Of that amount Florida houses 4,519 confirmed alien inmates. That’s 6.2% of Florida's inmate population, which draws $129 million from the federal government annually.

As we search for ways to combat crime, we must focus on the criminals already in prison. Prisoners have certain characteristics this told by the National law journal “more then 50 percent have some type of learning disability. Over 60 percent are drug users, 66 percent are from broken homes. Statistics show that 50 percent of all prisoners are young African- Americans, with most stemming from below the poverty level“. (pg 1,2) Most prisoners have about a 9th grade education level with no or very little job skills. Having no positive roll model or none at all to guide them. With attributes like this, a life of crime is all they know.

In conclusion those convicted of violent crimes should and must do hard time. Thus experiencing hard labor some would argue that this is cruel and unusual punishment but it serves as a reminder of what you have done to society. Also to re-implement that going to prison is not fun with free television and a place to stay for a couple of years, it's punishment not a temporary place. Buy taking away there televisions, radios and phones are in itself a form of punishment but these are privileges to be earned not there rights to have, yet our tax dollars are spent to furnish these criminals. This would be two folds, it allows for punishment to fit the crime relieving the problem of overcrowding of prisons. Secondly letting the public know that prison is for punishment and rehabilitation.

Do violent criminals deserve a chance for rehabilitation? Why should taxpayers foot this bill when they deserve punishment? Simple put one day these inmates will be your neighbor, with no job skills and still no education. A report done by Lane, C

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