Preston The statistics shown throughout this chapter and the link are beyond comparable to any other country in the world. We as a nation have a 2.2 million people incarcerated and this number only continues to grow and has no intentions of stopping. Not only is it growing at an unhealthy rate but also the quantity of of African American men being incarcerated is 3 times more likely than a white adult male. This number should not have to continue growing. If the justice system were to be fixed properly as well as the police, the number of incarcerations would drastically decrease. Solving this problem would greatly alter the outcome of the U.S. society and it's treatment towards incarcerated and others.
The statistical evidence in both this chapter as well as in the website is indisputable. The truth is the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.2 million people in prison, and with an increase of 500% in the last 40 years. According to the Sentencing Project, “changes in law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase.” Our Nation as a whole believe in being “tough on crime” is proving that we are not weak, but in my opinion, it is proving that we believe it's easier to throw someone in jail, then it is to evaluate their circumstances. The racial bias in mass incarceration is a huge issue right now as “people of color make up 37% of the U.S. population but 67% of the prison population." Another statistic on the racial bias in prisons is, “Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men, and Hispanic men are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as non-Hispanic white men.” It is hard for me to have an opinion on a topic that puts my race in the minority, but I would like to say I feel that the systems we are using are too quick to judge, and convict people. I think we all have to step back and look at each case with open eyes and understand the situation.
The statistics on how many people are in prison and how high the incarceration rates have grown make me feel sad and disappointed. I’m disappointed that there are not enough solutions in this world to keep these rate from rising and I’m sad that so many people choose to make these wrong decisions. Knowing that there are over 2 million people in the U.S. in prisons makes me wonder how many people are wrongly convicted and innocent and how many people are in jail who should be in rehab or a mental institution? The fact that incarceration levels have risen over 500% in the past 40 years doesn’t mean the moms of our world are having bad kids, it means our legal system needs to be fixed. It shouldn’t take this long for someone to realize that the increase of incarceration rates is becoming a huge problem.
I think that this chapter and the Sentencing Project are huge eye openers for people who may not understand that the increase of incarceration levels are getting way to out of hand. People, including communities, law enforcement, the U.S. Supreme Court, and others of higher power need to step back and look at what the real issue is; we are so quick to judge and not actually listen that people are thrown into prison so carelessly. We as a population need to be proactive instead of reactive. By coming up with a solution to end this increase of imprisonment, we are not only helping future potential prisoners, but ourselves as well.
LOGOS! The statistics shown in both the chapter and the online resource shows an overwhelming large incarceration rate that is only continuing to grow. We as a nation are failing our people, and it really saddens me to think so. For people of different skin colors it is even worse and more likely that they will be sentenced to imprisonment.
This chapter is very important as it convinces the audience with a sea of facts. Basically, this chapter is logos. Lots of logos. This connects to the website through the abundance of facts produced in both resources. Honestly, some of these facts shocked me, especially the United States' skyrocketing statistics compared to those of other countries. In our country, incarceration rates are increasing exponentially. In 1990 we had approximately 500,000 people in jail. Now we are getting close to 2,000,000. It was devastating, yet interesting, to investigate the statistics of imprisonment based on race and gender. Hopefully, in the near future, the United States can lower the number of populations in prisons so that we do not have to deal with the same horrifying statistics that we do today.
Preston
ReplyDeleteThe statistics shown throughout this chapter and the link are beyond comparable to any other country in the world. We as a nation have a 2.2 million people incarcerated and this number only continues to grow and has no intentions of stopping. Not only is it growing at an unhealthy rate but also the quantity of of African American men being incarcerated is 3 times more likely than a white adult male. This number should not have to continue growing. If the justice system were to be fixed properly as well as the police, the number of incarcerations would drastically decrease. Solving this problem would greatly alter the outcome of the U.S. society and it's treatment towards incarcerated and others.
ReplyDeleteThe statistical evidence in both this chapter as well as in the website is indisputable. The truth is the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.2 million people in prison, and with an increase of 500% in the last 40 years. According to the Sentencing Project, “changes in law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase.” Our Nation as a whole believe in being “tough on crime” is proving that we are not weak, but in my opinion, it is proving that we believe it's easier to throw someone in jail, then it is to evaluate their circumstances. The racial bias in mass incarceration is a huge issue right now as “people of color make up 37% of the U.S. population but 67% of the prison population." Another statistic on the racial bias in prisons is, “Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men, and Hispanic men are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as non-Hispanic white men.” It is hard for me to have an opinion on a topic that puts my race in the minority, but I would like to say I feel that the systems we are using are too quick to judge, and convict people. I think we all have to step back and look at each case with open eyes and understand the situation.
-Brianna Davenport
The statistics on how many people are in prison and how high the incarceration rates have grown make me feel sad and disappointed. I’m disappointed that there are not enough solutions in this world to keep these rate from rising and I’m sad that so many people choose to make these wrong decisions. Knowing that there are over 2 million people in the U.S. in prisons makes me wonder how many people are wrongly convicted and innocent and how many people are in jail who should be in rehab or a mental institution? The fact that incarceration levels have risen over 500% in the past 40 years doesn’t mean the moms of our world are having bad kids, it means our legal system needs to be fixed. It shouldn’t take this long for someone to realize that the increase of incarceration rates is becoming a huge problem.
ReplyDeleteI think that this chapter and the Sentencing Project are huge eye openers for people who may not understand that the increase of incarceration levels are getting way to out of hand. People, including communities, law enforcement, the U.S. Supreme Court, and others of higher power need to step back and look at what the real issue is; we are so quick to judge and not actually listen that people are thrown into prison so carelessly. We as a population need to be proactive instead of reactive. By coming up with a solution to end this increase of imprisonment, we are not only helping future potential prisoners, but ourselves as well.
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LOGOS! The statistics shown in both the chapter and the online resource shows an overwhelming large incarceration rate that is only continuing to grow. We as a nation are failing our people, and it really saddens me to think so. For people of different skin colors it is even worse and more likely that they will be sentenced to imprisonment.
This chapter is very important as it convinces the audience with a sea of facts. Basically, this chapter is logos. Lots of logos. This connects to the website through the abundance of facts produced in both resources. Honestly, some of these facts shocked me, especially the United States' skyrocketing statistics compared to those of other countries. In our country, incarceration rates are increasing exponentially. In 1990 we had approximately 500,000 people in jail. Now we are getting close to 2,000,000. It was devastating, yet interesting, to investigate the statistics of imprisonment based on race and gender. Hopefully, in the near future, the United States can lower the number of populations in prisons so that we do not have to deal with the same horrifying statistics that we do today.
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