CRIM 3656 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Immigration Detention In The United States, Sentencing Reform Act, Social Distance
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The aim is not to ameliorate, but to abolish prisons. The prison environment breaks its imprisoners, it makes you submit and succumb. The population of u. s prisons increase with such rapidity that many people in black, latino, and native american communities have a greater chance of going to prison. More than 2 million people [out of a world total of nine million] now inhabit. U. s prisons, jails, youth facilities and immigrant detention centers. There may be twice as many people suffering from mental illness who are in jails and prisons than there are in all psychiatric hospitals in the u. s combined. The drive to produce more prisons and incarceration occurred in the 1980s during the reagan era. Politicians argued to take a more tough on crime stance such as imposing longer sentences, to keep communities free of crime. However the practice of mass incarceration during that period had little to no effect on official crime rates.
