The prison population is on a rise! This is not good. In New York the population has dropped but across America it has risen to 1.6 mil. My question is why is it rising so much? I feel as though the reason for the hike of prisoners in America is due to poverty. US Department of Justice, show that as of June 30, 2007, approximately 2.3 million people were incarcerated in American prisons and jails, which is an all time high. This represents an incarceration rate of 762 per 100,000 US residents, the highest rate in the world. If America is the wealthiest country in the world why are their people jailed and hurting? Since this recession people have been hitting all time lows and have been doing things that are unlawful so they can survive. It really sucks that America is so very rich but their people are so very poor. Hopefully in the near future someone will be able to come up with something so that this incarceration rate can slow down..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/prison-population-drops-i_n_384728.html
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