Why does the United States have the highest prison population in the world?
Because the prison system does not take the necessary time to reabilitate the prisoners.They are thrown into cells and left there.They have no role models or social workers to help them reform.Once they get out they repeat the crime or possibly a worse crime.Prisons should be of more use than to just punish.When you punish a child,do you not try to help them mend thier ways.Another reason is that private corperations are starting to take over the prison system and making more prisons.Once prisons become a profit based interest and the taxpayers foot the bill everyone loses, I understand that taxpayers pay $30 thousand a year per prisoner.Privatized prisons benifit and there would be no incentive to reabilitate.Should not one who has wronged society be shown a better way?Corperations are building more prisons and since prisoners=profits crime is a welcomed sight to them.
