Us Population In Prison

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“US Prisons”
Did you know that the US has 25% of the world population of inmates in prison? Prison can’t and won’t change the inmate's view of life, although we have a need for incarceration, the prisons are overpopulated. Prison does not reform people because the population of inmates has increased, prisoners still end up in jail after their release, and they are still addicted to what they were before prison. We need change in our country, or we will need to spend and use our money to improve or build prisons.
The inmate population in the US has skyrocketed in the past decades. There are more jails and prisons than colleges in the US. The US population in prisons is propelling without hesitation. The prisons are becoming overcrowded and is costing the government a whopping amount of money. One example of why the inmate population has gone up because of drugs. Drugs have been coming into the US illegally has expanded lately. So the more drugs that have been introduced the higher the rate of incarceration. Our population is the size of an elephant to other countries that are like mice compared to us. Our incarceration rate is 737 per 100,000 in the US. Russia is in second with 615 per 100,000, but most countries are under 200 per 100,000. The US needs to keep the incarceration rate stable and down in the near future.
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Drugs are one of the many reasons why they end up going back. Prisoners have little or no money when they get out of prison. So they need to make money, but they have awfully little job opportunity. Employers don’t want employees that have criminal records. So this forces the inmates that just got out to commit crimes to have the simple things a human needs to survive. So the inmates that were released feel forced to steal or sell drugs. 68% of the 405,000 prisoners released in 2005 were arrested and ended up back behind