Essays on Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is one of the biggest social issues in our society. Unfortunately we house 25% of the world’s prisoners. Mass incarceration is mass or extreme rates of imprisonment. This is caused by many factors that has led to this social issue, for example neglect or corruption from our government officials for example, lack of…

What is mass incarceration? This phenomenon refers to the current extreme rates of imprisonment. For decades mass incarceration had been an unsolved problem in America. There has been efforts in changing it, but none have really made a large impact on the imprisonment system. Mass incarceration does not have only one cause. As Well as…

Introduction We are number one! America likes to think of our nation as number one, the top, the best, and there are a lot of ways this is true. America is the number one economy in the world for example, America is also the number one destination for immigrants who are seeking a better life,…

Beginning in the 1970s, Angela Davis has been a prominent advocate of prison reform. In fact, Davis takes a radical approach, believing reform isn’t enough and prisons should be abolished almost completely. Davis believes that the “tough on crime” laws of the ‘80s didn’t decrease crime or create safer neighborhoods, but instead inflated prison populations…