According to the DOJ, the incarceration rate in the US has seen a 500% increase in the past 30 years (Dugger, 2018). I know the discussion post calls for issues in sentencing Guidelines, and I take that on the topic of prison overcrowding. However, I don’t think the sentencing guidelines are strict enough. I work in a unit that targets violent felons and repeat offenders. The amount of people I see who get released and then violate their probation is enormous. The problem is not that the prisons are overcrowded, its that the prisons are not big enough. Drugs in America is a huge problem and it contributes to the overcrowding in prisons. Why are we handing out life sentences to murders and violent rapist. The class may not like this, but why would we want to contribute to the overcrowding of a prison and pay
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However, I don’t think the sentencing guidelines are strict enough. I work in a unit that targets violent felons and repeat offenders. The amount of people I see who get released and then violate their probation is enormous. The problem is not that the prisons are overcrowded, its that the prisons are not big enough. Drugs in America is a huge problem and it contributes to the overcrowding in prisons. Why are we handing out life sentences to murders and violent rapist. The class may not like this, but why would we want to contribute to the overcrowding of a prison and pay our tax dollars for a murder to chill on the yard all day and workout and eat honey buns (my corrections friends will understand that). I am going back a few years, but in 2013 their were a reported 14,196 murders in the United states (FBI,2018). If an arrest was made in everyone of these cases, which there was not, but if there was, that’s 14,196 inmates added to the DOJ on murder charges alone. Why would we not just start handing out the death penalty on every murder
However, I don’t think the sentencing guidelines are strict enough. I work in a unit that targets violent felons and repeat offenders. The amount of people I see who get released and then violate their probation is enormous. The problem is not that the prisons are overcrowded, its that the prisons are not big enough. Drugs in America is a huge problem and it contributes to the overcrowding in prisons. Why are we handing out life sentences to murders and violent rapist. The class may not like this, but why would we want to contribute to the overcrowding of a prison and pay our tax dollars for a murder to chill on the yard all day and workout and eat honey buns (my corrections friends will understand that). I am going back a few years, but in 2013 their were a reported 14,196 murders in the United states (FBI,2018). If an arrest was made in everyone of these cases, which there was not, but if there was, that’s 14,196 inmates added to the DOJ on murder charges alone. Why would we not just start handing out the death penalty on every murder