So back in 2016, the federal and state prisons combined were up to over one million, five hundred thousand people in them. At this time the article said that this was a seven percent decrease in the prison population compared to the year 2009. There were one hundred and eight thousand, seven hundred more people in jail back in 2009 then there was back in 2016. I just find it interesting to see that we were doing pretty well for a while on decreasing the prisons populations and then somehow during the next two years after in 2018, we are up to what now is two million, three hundred thousand with what we have talked about in class. Also something that i found to be interesting in the article was that females only made up seven percent of all of the prisoners. I knew that males made up a big majority of the inmates in prison but i did not know that it was that uneven. 93% of all of the prisoners back in 2016 were males. Only one hundred and eleven thousand of the 1.5 million people were females. Another interesting fact is that (if i read the table correctly) Illinois is ranked at number seven out of fifty for the amount of prisoners that they have in their state. Really this was an interesting article to read, it just makes me wonder why was there such a jump in the numbers over the last two years? Why have we came up to a number such as 2.3 million. If you look at 2009 and you compare it to 2016 we were on a slow decline. It was going down a little bit at a time. 606,000 prisoners sentenced to prison on 2016 were sentenced to more then one year in prison. How many of these men and women would have learned there lesson by being in there less than one year. We can not afford to keep all of these people locked up forever, constantly paying for them every year. -Steel711
Many people believe that the crime rate is increasing rapidly. But they only believe that because with the use of social meida, we are more prominently to hear about crime than what we used to. The word of crime can move a lot faster and expand now with the use of social media. Believe it or not the crime rate has acutally been decreasing. According to the article, “The number of federal prisoners decreased from 196,500 in 2015 to 189,200 in 2016. This was the fourth consecutive year of population decline among federal prisoners.” In twenty-six states, the women population in prisons have increased. And made up seven percent of the total national prison population. The female population sentenced to more than one year has increased where the male population has decreased. I think this is occurring because more and more females are becoming more brave. They also believe they could possibly get away with it because they are females. I believe males have finally learned that going to prison is not fun and they see friends and family going there and they see the consequences and the hardship they go through. But theh article also incldues that. “The imprisonment rate for the U.S. population of all ages was the lowest since 1997 (444 per 100,000 U.S. residents).” Other the years, I believe that the rules have gotten more strict and are harder to follow. But people know their limits and what they can and cannot do in order to follow the rules. The web-based offender tracking system that Illinois has is a great system in order to keep track of previous offenders to truly know what they are doing. This can help the offenders kepp out of trouble so they are not offending and they are making the right choices. ProbdrinkingStar$’s711
I agree with what your saying about the word of crime can move a lot faster and expand now with the use of social media. For example, if someone posted a video of a fight by the next day there is millions of views from all over the world. Things that are posted on social media get passed around really quickly. I also agree with you when you said women are getting more brave and also thinking they can get away with it. While men are learning their lesson and realizing prison is not a fun. Which makes me think about what things are making women more brave? Are they getting by with a lot more things than men? -ny711
I find it interesting that America has 1,506,800 prisoners in the jurisdiction of both state and federal correctional authorities from 2016. I find it amazing that that was actually a decrease of 19,800 prisoners the year before in 2015. The state prisons held 12,600 fewer inmates in 2016 than in 2015, and the federal prisons dropped 7,300 in 2016. This fact is also interesting, out of 100,000 people, 582 are sentenced to prison. That is the lowest rate since 1997 at 450 prisoners per 100,000. Another fact that is interesting is the females make up 7 percent of the total national prison population in 2016, this is an increase of 100 prisoners from 2015. I find it interesting how more and more women are being locked up compared to men. It used to be when you thought of jail or prison you would normally think of men, but now it is not that way anymore. The number of women being locked up is close to if not more than the current rate at which men are being sent to prison. Women still are not at the level of violence crime as men are but they are getting closer. The largest number of women being locked up is occurring in Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Washington. In Indiana and Alabama the rate of females being locked up is actually going down. Not as many women were locked up in 2016 as there were in 2015. It is interesting to me in only a year how many criminals can be locked up. On the other hand it is also interesting how much of a decrease can happen in a year or so. It amazes me how many less people were sentence to jail for over a year in 2015 than 2016. -crispychicken711
I also find it very interesting how in 2016 the number of prisoners were lower, maybe the 1% might have been just by luck, anyways I find it very intriguing how the number was lower if not almost the same any other time. I wonder why the number didn't rise like any other year. Would it do with types of laws being passed and put into action, if so I think they should do whatever they did to keep the prisoner count lower. Personally I do believe it does not take a person 30 years to learn to not make the same mistake they did a long time ago.-MyHandle711
“The United States had an estimated 1,506,800 prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities as of December 31, 2016 (year-end). Tis was a decline of 19,800 prisoners (down 1%) from year-end 2015.” Just reading that alone in the beginning sentences this article grasped my attention. So maybe the correctional system is working out in the long run. Hopefully we can keep this steady decrease and no longer be the jailest government in the world. “At year-end 2016, a total of 83,700 prisoners were held in the custody of local jails for 35 states and the BOP, a 3% increase (up 2,500 prisoners) from 81,200 prisoners in 2015.” So, it seems that it maybe decreasing in other places but there still is a slight increase across the board unfortunately. With 96% of non-U.S. citizens held in state or federal prison where male. With that information it also shows that 21% of federal prisoners are Non- U.S. citizens that are brought in by Homeland Security. To me that doesn’t seem like a lot, but with the United States being the highest rate of incarceration it is a high percentage. The article also brings to the light that is the military prisoners as well which I did not expect. Even though the military had a total of 2,400 prisoners serving between a year or more. Most of which are prior service members with the army holding 48% of that. Then the Army had 66% of prior service members incarcerated in December 2016, while the navy had 31% service members incarcerated. This comes to show that no matter what kind of path you take in life you aren’t given a get out of jail free card. It amazes me that something held up high on a pedestal is so wrong. With my total overview of the article I believe that with some more research and maybe not be so strict on somethings so little that we will have a large decrease rate of incarceration. -Rollforinitiative711
The article start off with a huge number indicating the estimated amount of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities, the number they mentioned is 1,506,800 people. However in state prisons they hold 1,317,600prisoners at year-end 2016. There are states however who had a decline in that data which include Alabama but like the other article I read Georgia had an increasing prison population. Since everyone is influenced by social media we ten to get wrapped up and think crime is increasing at a higher rate, which in reality it isn't true. Since everyone have phones we see every criminal act when we get on our phone so it seems as if the crime rate is going u but from this article prisons and state prisons is decreasing which is good. The thing thaT shocked me is that the female population went up while the male population decreased. I feel like the women rate is going up because they feel like since they are girls they are going to be a little nicer to them when in fact that is not true. I think the men are finally realizing that the justice system is not playing with them anymore especially men of color. Maybe the men are seeing how, a lot of men are being over sentenced and they are coming to their senses and valuing their family more rather than risking losing their family to petty offenses. This article was interesting to me because it made me visually see how crime isn't getting worse its getting better. It also allowed me to see how the crime rate can change in a year time frame which is amazing because if it can go down that much in A year then imagine in a decade they could decrease drastically. -Jollyranchers711
Within this article there was an abundance of numbers and research. It was quite interesting, surfing through all the ratios and numbers. For me it is hard to understand how large the numbers are in real life; what the real impact they have on our nation as a whole. This article had an abundance of wealth in knowledge. Within the article it had stated, “black males age 65 and older were 4.4 times more likely to be imprisoned then white males age 65 and older.” Its sad to say, but theses numbers aren’t very surprising to me. We as a country are still racially divided on many things; it’s not fair for those people, by all means. We are a part of the greatest nation on earth, to have an issue over race in our correction system is unprofessional and a disgrace. Fixing such an issue is easier said than done, I am aware of that. But this is a problem worth fixing. “Black males ages 18 to 19 were 11.8 times more likely to be imprisoned than white males of the same age.” This is a far harder ratio than the 65 and older African American group I stated first. I wasn’t very surprised about these numbers. I am aware of the racial inequalities within our justice system. Knowing about the issues that are related to race is half of the problem; while fixing the issue is the other half. I think if more people were aware and cared about the racial inequalities, the ratio between race would be at a significant decrease. By having more people aware of this issue, the nation as a whole would make remarkable improvement within the justice system. This issue is worth changing; its worth our time, our money and our resources. Lives are affected every day by this. I think our country would benefit if we all were united on the issue of racism. -CoalRoller117
While troubling, I find the numbers in the article to be unsurprising given what we’ve discussed in class and based on other reading we’ve done. However I am glad to see at least from 2015 to 2016 we had a decline of one percent. One percent seems like a pretty insignificant decrease and truthfully it is but looking at it from a pure numbers standpoint I think is not looking at the whole picture. That one percent comes out to a decrease of 19,800 lives that are incarcerated. That’s the size of a moderate sized town that aren’t in prison anymore. That, I think is reason to celebrate, but we must also understand that although that is a significant number of lives it’s a rather insignificant decrease. I do think it’s important that we enforce our laws but it seems to me the way we are going about it is extremely flawed. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that we are pretty much the only country that relies on private prisons as much as we do and we have the highest incarceration rate of any country. When you have money as an incentive to lock people up, people are going to find a way to lock more people up. I think the financial incentive in criminal justice is probably the main cause of our heavy incarceration rate and by getting rid of that I think we’d go a long way in solving our over incarceration problem. I think over time this will get better as I believe we as a society are changing our attitudes towards criminal justice, I just think we haven’t seen that reflected in how policy is implemented yet and that’s largely because of the profit motive and a lack of education on the subject. I think if more people knew how much we disproportionately incarcerate minorities and how many people are serving decades in prison because of non violent offenses there’d be more of a public outcry but as it stands I think there’s a problem with “out of sight out of mind.” Avatar711
In the article, it states that Prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year made up 97% of the total prison population in 2016. Which makes since because they are in their longer than others, and they need more supervision than others. Also, most people get sentences to more than a year when it comes to prisons. Also, in the article it says, that 47% of the federal prisoners was sentenced for drug offenses. I believe that could be true because right now the law enforcement is taking drugs seriously and putting a lot of people in jail or prison. I don’t like how they are so worried about drugs, marijuana to be specific. We incarnate a lot of people for years and its taking up some space. The money they put forth for these prisoners is crazy. They have to have money to take care of these people in there and even have money to pay these workers. Now with prisons, they always have some income coming in because everything they do or need requires some type of money. Calling people, snacks, and even sending mail it all requires money. But when you sentence someone in there for 10 years maybe life. you have to make sure they are set everyday which requires clothes, food and other things they have in there. In the article it says the number of females sentenced to more than 1 year in state or federal prison increased by 700 from 2015 to 2016. Females have been committing a lot lately, even with small things. Today, there have been a lot of different activates and we learn something new every day. Half of these crimes don’t even get reported which is crazy. I feel like its going to increase more over the years because it’s been a lot going on like school shooting and much more. They just are going to have to be prepared. -babyblue711
I think it was very interesting how the women's statistics showed an increase but the males did not. I think women are becoming more and more in rivalry with men, like a "anything you can do I can do better" type of attitude. There are a lot more incarcerated and female criminals than the numbers used to show. Times really have changed and females are just as able as men are to commit a crime. It is all in the thought process, their environment, home life and what they see. There are also a lot of songs, TV shows and movies and celebrities that almost make jail/prison not look as bad or even entertaining. It puts a different image in juveniles minds and adults' minds in general that once is fine to commit a crime, just do it once. You may get away with it the first time but eventually you will get comfortable and when you get comfortable yo become lazy and cocky and that is when these numbers begin to rise. -notacop711
After reading this article it makes it more clear to me. I always watched the news and read through Facebook and thought that our crime rate was rapidly increasing when in reality, it is not doing that. It may not be rapidly decreasing either but it is far better than I thought it was. The United States had 1,506,800 prisoners as of December 31st, 2016. State and federal prisons admitted 2,300 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015. That may not seem like a lot but under the circumstances, it truly is a good amount. Nearly half (47%) of federal prisoners had been sentenced for drug offenses in 2016. This number is pretty high because it really is the main source and reasoning for people being locked up, drugs. Granted, a lot of these people have different stories and there are arguments out there questioning if some of these people behind bars should really be locked up. More than half (54%) of state prisoners were serving sentences for violent offenses at year end 2015. That number is incredibly high. But it is for violent offenses, justifiable. At year end in 2016, the imprisonment rate for sentenced prisoners was 450 per 100,000 United States residents of all ages. That is not a bad number. Crime will always happen. It will never not be a thing and we will always have law enforcement. We will also always have prisons as not everyone that gets sent away is in there for a small violation. But we have also produced alternatives to people facing imprisonment due to the realization of repeat offenders. You can tell someone no constantly and put them in time out but who is to say the next time you walk away they do not do it again because some people are just programmed oddly from others. They get major satisfaction from completing a crime. -notacop711
I found this article very interesting. I honestly thought there prison rate was going up. Whether ithats from social media or what this article had a lot of useful information. I was very surprised that the United States had an estimated 1,506,800 prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities as of December 31, 2016. This was a decline of 19,800 prisoners so down 1% from year-end 2015. State prisons held 12,600 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015, while the federal prison population decreased by 7,300 o down almost 4%. This was the first information I had seen with these statistics. I really don't know why I thought it was getting worse maybe it's just the fact that there is still to many people locked up even if there is improvement there needs to be more because it is still out of hand. Even after reading all of this information there is still way to many people locked up and we need to find a better solution t get better results. There was also good information about females being imprisoned. That number is going up. So it's not just about the overall population in prison there are still so many problems that are increasing. We should still be focus on keeping people out of prison at a faster and more significant amount. -pizza711
So back in 2016, the federal and state prisons combined were up to over one million, five hundred thousand people in them. At this time the article said that this was a seven percent decrease in the prison population compared to the year 2009. There were one hundred and eight thousand, seven hundred more people in jail back in 2009 then there was back in 2016. I just find it interesting to see that we were doing pretty well for a while on decreasing the prisons populations and then somehow during the next two years after in 2018, we are up to what now is two million, three hundred thousand with what we have talked about in class. Also something that i found to be interesting in the article was that females only made up seven percent of all of the prisoners. I knew that males made up a big majority of the inmates in prison but i did not know that it was that uneven. 93% of all of the prisoners back in 2016 were males. Only one hundred and eleven thousand of the 1.5 million people were females. Another interesting fact is that (if i read the table correctly) Illinois is ranked at number seven out of fifty for the amount of prisoners that they have in their state. Really this was an interesting article to read, it just makes me wonder why was there such a jump in the numbers over the last two years? Why have we came up to a number such as 2.3 million. If you look at 2009 and you compare it to 2016 we were on a slow decline. It was going down a little bit at a time. 606,000 prisoners sentenced to prison on 2016 were sentenced to more then one year in prison. How many of these men and women would have learned there lesson by being in there less than one year. We can not afford to keep all of these people locked up forever, constantly paying for them every year. -Steel711
ReplyDeleteMany people believe that the crime rate is increasing rapidly. But they only believe that because with the use of social meida, we are more prominently to hear about crime than what we used to. The word of crime can move a lot faster and expand now with the use of social media. Believe it or not the crime rate has acutally been decreasing. According to the article, “The number of federal prisoners decreased from 196,500 in 2015 to 189,200 in 2016. This was the fourth consecutive year of population decline among federal prisoners.” In twenty-six states, the women population in prisons have increased. And made up seven percent of the total national prison population. The female population sentenced to more than one year has increased where the male population has decreased. I think this is occurring because more and more females are becoming more brave. They also believe they could possibly get away with it because they are females. I believe males have finally learned that going to prison is not fun and they see friends and family going there and they see the consequences and the hardship they go through. But theh article also incldues that. “The imprisonment rate for the U.S. population of all ages was the lowest since 1997 (444 per 100,000 U.S. residents).” Other the years, I believe that the rules have gotten more strict and are harder to follow. But people know their limits and what they can and cannot do in order to follow the rules. The web-based offender tracking system that Illinois has is a great system in order to keep track of previous offenders to truly know what they are doing. This can help the offenders kepp out of trouble so they are not offending and they are making the right choices.
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I agree with what your saying about the word of crime can move a lot faster and expand now with the use of social media. For example, if someone posted a video of a fight by the next day there is millions of views from all over the world. Things that are posted on social media get passed around really quickly. I also agree with you when you said women are getting more brave and also thinking they can get away with it. While men are learning their lesson and realizing prison is not a fun. Which makes me think about what things are making women more brave? Are they getting by with a lot more things than men?
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I find it interesting that America has 1,506,800 prisoners in the jurisdiction of both state and federal correctional authorities from 2016. I find it amazing that that was actually a decrease of 19,800 prisoners the year before in 2015. The state prisons held 12,600 fewer inmates in 2016 than in 2015, and the federal prisons dropped 7,300 in 2016. This fact is also interesting, out of 100,000 people, 582 are sentenced to prison. That is the lowest rate since 1997 at 450 prisoners per 100,000. Another fact that is interesting is the females make up 7 percent of the total national prison population in 2016, this is an increase of 100 prisoners from 2015. I find it interesting how more and more women are being locked up compared to men. It used to be when you thought of jail or prison you would normally think of men, but now it is not that way anymore. The number of women being locked up is close to if not more than the current rate at which men are being sent to prison. Women still are not at the level of violence crime as men are but they are getting closer. The largest number of women being locked up is occurring in Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Washington. In Indiana and Alabama the rate of females being locked up is actually going down. Not as many women were locked up in 2016 as there were in 2015. It is interesting to me in only a year how many criminals can be locked up. On the other hand it is also interesting how much of a decrease can happen in a year or so. It amazes me how many less people were sentence to jail for over a year in 2015 than 2016. -crispychicken711
ReplyDeleteI also find it very interesting how in 2016 the number of prisoners were lower, maybe the 1% might have been just by luck, anyways I find it very intriguing how the number was lower if not almost the same any other time. I wonder why the number didn't rise like any other year. Would it do with types of laws being passed and put into action, if so I think they should do whatever they did to keep the prisoner count lower. Personally I do believe it does not take a person 30 years to learn to not make the same mistake they did a long time ago.-MyHandle711
Delete“The United States had an estimated 1,506,800 prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities as of December 31, 2016 (year-end). Tis was a decline of 19,800 prisoners (down 1%) from year-end 2015.” Just reading that alone in the beginning sentences this article grasped my attention. So maybe the correctional system is working out in the long run. Hopefully we can keep this steady decrease and no longer be the jailest government in the world. “At year-end 2016, a total of 83,700 prisoners were held in the custody of local jails for 35 states and the BOP, a 3% increase (up 2,500 prisoners) from 81,200 prisoners in 2015.” So, it seems that it maybe decreasing in other places but there still is a slight increase across the board unfortunately. With 96% of non-U.S. citizens held in state or federal prison where male. With that information it also shows that 21% of federal prisoners are Non- U.S. citizens that are brought in by Homeland Security. To me that doesn’t seem like a lot, but with the United States being the highest rate of incarceration it is a high percentage. The article also brings to the light that is the military prisoners as well which I did not expect. Even though the military had a total of 2,400 prisoners serving between a year or more. Most of which are prior service members with the army holding 48% of that. Then the Army had 66% of prior service members incarcerated in December 2016, while the navy had 31% service members incarcerated. This comes to show that no matter what kind of path you take in life you aren’t given a get out of jail free card. It amazes me that something held up high on a pedestal is so wrong. With my total overview of the article I believe that with some more research and maybe not be so strict on somethings so little that we will have a large decrease rate of incarceration. -Rollforinitiative711
ReplyDeleteThe article start off with a huge number indicating the estimated amount of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities, the number they mentioned is 1,506,800 people. However in state prisons they hold 1,317,600prisoners at year-end 2016. There are states however who had a decline in that data which include Alabama but like the other article I read Georgia had an increasing prison population. Since everyone is influenced by social media we ten to get wrapped up and think crime is increasing at a higher rate, which in reality it isn't true. Since everyone have phones we see every criminal act when we get on our phone so it seems as if the crime rate is going u but from this article prisons and state prisons is decreasing which is good. The thing thaT shocked me is that the female population went up while the male population decreased. I feel like the women rate is going up because they feel like since they are girls they are going to be a little nicer to them when in fact that is not true. I think the men are finally realizing that the justice system is not playing with them anymore especially men of color. Maybe the men are seeing how, a lot of men are being over sentenced and they are coming to their senses and valuing their family more rather than risking losing their family to petty offenses. This article was interesting to me because it made me visually see how crime isn't getting worse its getting better. It also allowed me to see how the crime rate can change in a year time frame which is amazing because if it can go down that much in A year then imagine in a decade they could decrease drastically. -Jollyranchers711
ReplyDeleteWithin this article there was an abundance of numbers and research. It was quite interesting, surfing through all the ratios and numbers. For me it is hard to understand how large the numbers are in real life; what the real impact they have on our nation as a whole. This article had an abundance of wealth in knowledge. Within the article it had stated, “black males age 65 and older were 4.4 times more likely to be imprisoned then white males age 65 and older.” Its sad to say, but theses numbers aren’t very surprising to me. We as a country are still racially divided on many things; it’s not fair for those people, by all means. We are a part of the greatest nation on earth, to have an issue over race in our correction system is unprofessional and a disgrace. Fixing such an issue is easier said than done, I am aware of that. But this is a problem worth fixing. “Black males ages 18 to 19 were 11.8 times more likely to be imprisoned than white males of the same age.” This is a far harder ratio than the 65 and older African American group I stated first. I wasn’t very surprised about these numbers. I am aware of the racial inequalities within our justice system. Knowing about the issues that are related to race is half of the problem; while fixing the issue is the other half. I think if more people were aware and cared about the racial inequalities, the ratio between race would be at a significant decrease. By having more people aware of this issue, the nation as a whole would make remarkable improvement within the justice system. This issue is worth changing; its worth our time, our money and our resources. Lives are affected every day by this. I think our country would benefit if we all were united on the issue of racism. -CoalRoller117
ReplyDeleteWhile troubling, I find the numbers in the article to be unsurprising given what we’ve discussed in class and based on other reading we’ve done. However I am glad to see at least from 2015 to 2016 we had a decline of one percent. One percent seems like a pretty insignificant decrease and truthfully it is but looking at it from a pure numbers standpoint I think is not looking at the whole picture. That one percent comes out to a decrease of 19,800 lives that are incarcerated. That’s the size of a moderate sized town that aren’t in prison anymore. That, I think is reason to celebrate, but we must also understand that although that is a significant number of lives it’s a rather insignificant decrease. I do think it’s important that we enforce our laws but it seems to me the way we are going about it is extremely flawed. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that we are pretty much the only country that relies on private prisons as much as we do and we have the highest incarceration rate of any country. When you have money as an incentive to lock people up, people are going to find a way to lock more people up. I think the financial incentive in criminal justice is probably the main cause of our heavy incarceration rate and by getting rid of that I think we’d go a long way in solving our over incarceration problem. I think over time this will get better as I believe we as a society are changing our attitudes towards criminal justice, I just think we haven’t seen that reflected in how policy is implemented yet and that’s largely because of the profit motive and a lack of education on the subject. I think if more people knew how much we disproportionately incarcerate minorities and how many people are serving decades in prison because of non violent offenses there’d be more of a public outcry but as it stands I think there’s a problem with “out of sight out of mind.”
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In the article, it states that Prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year made up 97% of the total prison population in 2016. Which makes since because they are in their longer than others, and they need more supervision than others. Also, most people get sentences to more than a year when it comes to prisons. Also, in the article it says, that 47% of the federal prisoners was sentenced for drug offenses. I believe that could be true because right now the law enforcement is taking drugs seriously and putting a lot of people in jail or prison. I don’t like how they are so worried about drugs, marijuana to be specific. We incarnate a lot of people for years and its taking up some space. The money they put forth for these prisoners is crazy. They have to have money to take care of these people in there and even have money to pay these workers. Now with prisons, they always have some income coming in because everything they do or need requires some type of money. Calling people, snacks, and even sending mail it all requires money. But when you sentence someone in there for 10 years maybe life. you have to make sure they are set everyday which requires clothes, food and other things they have in there. In the article it says the number of females sentenced to more than 1 year in state or federal prison increased by 700 from 2015 to 2016. Females have been committing a lot lately, even with small things. Today, there have been a lot of different activates and we learn something new every day. Half of these crimes don’t even get reported which is crazy. I feel like its going to increase more over the years because it’s been a lot going on like school shooting and much more. They just are going to have to be prepared. -babyblue711
ReplyDeleteI think it was very interesting how the women's statistics showed an increase but the males did not. I think women are becoming more and more in rivalry with men, like a "anything you can do I can do better" type of attitude. There are a lot more incarcerated and female criminals than the numbers used to show. Times really have changed and females are just as able as men are to commit a crime. It is all in the thought process, their environment, home life and what they see. There are also a lot of songs, TV shows and movies and celebrities that almost make jail/prison not look as bad or even entertaining. It puts a different image in juveniles minds and adults' minds in general that once is fine to commit a crime, just do it once. You may get away with it the first time but eventually you will get comfortable and when you get comfortable yo become lazy and cocky and that is when these numbers begin to rise. -notacop711
DeleteAfter reading this article it makes it more clear to me. I always watched the news and read through Facebook and thought that our crime rate was rapidly increasing when in reality, it is not doing that. It may not be rapidly decreasing either but it is far better than I thought it was. The United States had 1,506,800 prisoners as of December 31st, 2016. State and federal prisons admitted 2,300 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015. That may not seem like a lot but under the circumstances, it truly is a good amount. Nearly half (47%) of federal prisoners had been sentenced for drug offenses in 2016. This number is pretty high because it really is the main source and reasoning for people being locked up, drugs. Granted, a lot of these people have different stories and there are arguments out there questioning if some of these people behind bars should really be locked up. More than half (54%) of state prisoners were serving sentences for violent offenses at year end 2015. That number is incredibly high. But it is for violent offenses, justifiable. At year end in 2016, the imprisonment rate for sentenced prisoners was 450 per 100,000 United States residents of all ages. That is not a bad number. Crime will always happen. It will never not be a thing and we will always have law enforcement. We will also always have prisons as not everyone that gets sent away is in there for a small violation. But we have also produced alternatives to people facing imprisonment due to the realization of repeat offenders. You can tell someone no constantly and put them in time out but who is to say the next time you walk away they do not do it again because some people are just programmed oddly from others. They get major satisfaction from completing a crime. -notacop711
ReplyDeleteI found this article very interesting. I honestly thought there prison rate was going up. Whether ithats from social media or what this article had a lot of useful information. I was very surprised that the United States had an estimated 1,506,800 prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities as of December 31, 2016. This was a decline of 19,800 prisoners so down 1% from year-end 2015. State prisons held 12,600 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015, while the federal prison population decreased by 7,300 o down almost 4%. This was the first information I had seen with these statistics. I really don't know why I thought it was getting worse maybe it's just the fact that there is still to many people locked up even if there is improvement there needs to be more because it is still out of hand. Even after reading all of this information there is still way to many people locked up and we need to find a better solution t get better results. There was also good information about females being imprisoned. That number is going up. So it's not just about the overall population in prison there are still so many problems that are increasing. We should still be focus on keeping people out of prison at a faster and more significant amount. -pizza711
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