Criminal Justice Issues

And almost nine times male that female is arrested and that female elderly the percentage are lower than the male. More and more elderly people are ending up dying behind bars and the facilities are spending more money than they should have done. Like spending on medical treatment or housing. The amount spend on an inmate is between 40,000 and 44,000 a year for their rest of their life’s. and that not including medical treat meant expensive that he needs.

They’re willing to give people life in prison because they “looked” like they committed the crime. Policies are even shooting random people because they look suspicious. We are all entitled to safety but not everyone feel safe. What hurts the most is that the people that are suppose to protect us and keep us safe are the ones that 's hurting and making us feel unsafe. Living life as a African American is very hard when everything is based off skin color and being black has become a substitute with being a criminal.

u might be asking yourself. Dawson was a white man and he got off but he had to pay a big fine since he had money so it wasn 't a big deal no one questioned and asked he just had to pay and serve 1 year in a minimum security prison where he chose and as soon as he was let go his record was cleaned for further job opportunities. Meanwhile John was sent to a level 4 security prison where he served 20 years in prison and when he got out he would be like usless because that would be on his record and nobody will want to hire him. In the united states has a lot of racial issues if you remember who you choose some people would say that they both committed similar crimes and that they should get the same sentence but sadly as you have seen the justice system does not think that and they would let the white guy leave with a fine and they would sentence the african american.

Since the law is set in place for any person who receives a criteria fitting third strike, whether it is from a big or small crime, the person is sent away to prison for basically the rest of their life. Due to the growth of the amount of people being sent to prison as a result of this policy, it is continuing to be more and more expensive to keep them in prison. High crime rate in California was the tipping point for former president Clinton to pass the law. The prison located in California now holds roughly 135,000 inmates (Shipley 1). It has more than doubled mainly because of the policy.

Web. 15 Oct. 2015. Recently, the issue of treating mentally ill inmates while they serve time for the crimes they committed has become a very prevalent topic (Glazer n.pag.). Because budget cuts have caused many mental health institutions to shut down, court and law officials have been led to place these mentally ill offenders in jails that do not have the equipment and staff necessary to help treat them (Glazer n.pag.). Instead, the mentally ill offenders are simply placed in solitary confinement, causing their condition or illness to worsen over time (Glazer n.pag.).

Over the years budget crises have forced many states to re-examine budgets, starting with the cost of maintaining their prison and jail systems. The United States has the largest prison population with about two million prisoners. To try and make a plan for the large population and some budget cuts, politicians want to change some of the parole policies and are trying to get some of the criminal laws revised for some drug offenders and white collar criminals. Due to the fact that the politicians are undecided the have put work release programs and strict parole release into effect. Prison is a place for people who break the law should be detained, but if the prisoner has twelve months or less until their release date, and show that they have been

Another problem that is occurring in the parole system is the release of prisoners into the parole system who were unfairly placed in it due to reasons that have nothing to do with the convicted themselves. Prisons are becoming so overcrowded that the courts are looking to make room by getting rid of some of the existing residents (Kleiman, and Hawken), and this may seem like a great opportunity for the future parolees. But in the end it is doing more harm than good. There are different kinds of parole a prisoner could get assigned to them, if they are even eligible for parole at all. This problem happens in the case of Discretionary Parole, which is the type of parole that is brought up to the parole board to discuss (OVERVIEW).

Unfortunately, that was Ewing’s three strikes, which led him to life in prison. The problem is the man now has to serve life over 1,200 dollars worth of merchandise. People felt it was unfair to charge someone life in prison for a non-violent crime. Ewing fought it in court, but the Supreme Court denied his appeal.

This means that they might have to wear an ankle bracelet or are required to have regular check-ins with the program (Sullivan). The pretrial program “costs only a couple dollars a day, compared with the national average of $60 a day in jail.” (Sullivan) According to the NPR report, bondsmen are completely against this program. They feel it is taking away their business, therefore their way of making money.

The attention that his mother could not give him. He was raised in a bad way where he didn’t know from right or wrong. It is not his fault he ended up that way it is mostly his mother fault for not being there when he was in need. He was only 18 and was always in and out of jail if he had a real role model in his life then things would have been so much more different. He had so much potential to be a good person but ended up in a bad family.

America’s criminal justice system need to make a change. We are constantly wasting millions of dollars on prison cells that won’t even be needed if they gave citizens who broke the law quick and easy punishments. In our society today many youths are being sentenced harsh punishments due to petty crimes, these harsh punishments include five or more years in prisons. Our criminal justice system is just plain corrupted and unreasonable. Judges show give fast punishments which are less severe to citizens who has broke small laws.

It took them a whole month before i could go before a judge. I was sitting in my cell waiting for the correctional officer to come get me. I was ready to be outside these damn walls. Being here for over a month was killing me, I was missing out on my money and I haven't been getting no pussy. I mean there was some correctional officers that liked fucking inmates, but I didn’t feel right stepping out on Carmen

Contact with the criminal and juvenile justice systems obviously has significant negative consequences for anyone who is subject to arrest, booking and incarceration. It can be doubly traumatic for people with mental illnesses, and the resulting criminal record can impede their later access to housing and mental health services.