Prison System in the United States
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To what extent does the current prison system in the United States serve the interests of all citizens?
The present detainment system in the United States serves all citizens’ interests by rehabilitating the prisoners, equipping the prisoners with necessary vacation and practical skills, and prisons are re-integrating campaigns to sensitize how inmates should be accepted back in the community.
Incarceration is a critical practice in the United States, whereby the order of crime and other wrongdoers are punished and rehabilitated (Abraham & Kearney, 2020). While inmates are rehabilitated, they are equipped with necessary technical skills; if they complete their sentences, they become newly born in the community by doing the right job acquired in prison.
Also, through prisons re-integrations of creating campaigns to sensitize the community on accepting the inmates back in the society, This creates a peaceful and conducive environment for former prisoners and community members, hence benefiting all subjects.
In conclusion, it affects individuals with the right attitudes towards life, correcting those involved in crime, and assisting in re-integration aids the reformatory system to wholly serve the states’ subjects.
Are our nation’s school system and prison industrial complex related? If so, how?
Our public’s school system and detain industry are related to helping the states and cities raise capital. For instance, public schools may hold many students, and prisons have many inmates within their jail in the motive of raising money (Green & Jackson, 2017). In prison, the inmate offers cheap labor to the government agencies; contractors are given tenders, food services, medical facilities, and surveillance technology vendors. In public schools also this applies; increasing the population of students reduces human resources hence making a profit.
In conclusion, both are associated since they are meant to transform individual minds and attitudes toward a better community.
References
Abraham, K. G., & Kearney, M. S. (2020). Explaining the decline in the US employment-to-population ratio: A review of the evidence. Journal of Economic Literature, 58(3), 585-643.
Green, D., & Jackson, M. R. (2017). Prison–Industrial Complex. The Encyclopedia of Corrections, 1-5.