In this article it talks about how when people go to jail they don’t get the help that they needed.”At least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in four of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year.” Which makes since because most people who go to jail come back out and do the same thing. When people leave jail there are a lot of factors in play. If they follow all the rules during there parole, if they can find a job and actually keep it, and what type of people they are hanging around. Are they going back to hang around the people they got in trouble with the first time or are they around a good supporting family that’s going to make sure they stay on the right path. Then it also depends on what type of crime they were put in jail for. If it’s a nonviolent offense like a drug crime or stealing. Did they get to go to rehab or did they talk to a mandatory therapists. Talking to someone and having them actually listen to you can make a huge difference in someone’s life. “Our analysis shows that people with multiple arrests are disproportionately: Black, low income, less educated, and unemployed. Moreover, the vast majority are arrested for nonviolent offenses. This suggest that instead of incarceration, which diminishes economic prospects, public investments in employment assistanc, education and vocational training, and financial assistance to police contact in the first place.” Which I agree with especially for non violent offenders. Most of the time they have families and all there trying to do it feed themselves and there kids. Most of the time they might start off as a regular job and they see that job is not paying them enough and they turn to selling weed or stealing to get a them to where they want to be. Batman002
So many things can contribute to reoffenders and that article sure showed us some of those things. I agree on what you say about when we realize they have their selves and families to take care of so sometimes they need to turn to for example selling weed on the streets to get that extra money to pay for their food. Hence why a lot of reoffenders come from low income areas. It all makes sense however it is sad that there are people that poor. Also it is sad that some aren't getting the help they truly need to stay out of the jails. Money has a big impact on whether they get what they need or not and that is hard for the low income people however I am sure there are ways to find good care for an accommodating price. -wags002
I honestly believe following up on people coming out of jail will cut down on the number of people returning to jail. We could do this by closely working with people who don't have a lot of education and giving them an opportunity to give them at least a GED when they get out. We could help people with illnesses by reforming our current healthcare systems in the for people with serious health needs. This will be tough to fix but we really should do something about this sooner rather than later. This will be difficult, but I think it can be done. -OUTATIME002
This article was interesting in the fact it showed the statistics of people going back to jail multiple times and what could be the factors of why they are going back. It mentions that "atleast 4.9 million people are jailed each year and that 1 in 4 will go back multiple times." Thats a lot of people going to jail, and multiple people going back and back again. Some factors that seem to keep the cycle going is poverty, race, mental illnesses, and substance use disorders. Now with that being known, it seems that the people with these aren't getting the help that they need which causes them to cycle in and out of the jail system. The good thing is that most rearrested individuals dont pose as a great threat on society since they keep committing less serious crimes however like said before they aren't getting the help they need to stay out of jail. With that being said, the mentally ill suffer a lot due to their extensive list of health needs and jail isn't the best place to help them at all. When they go to jail they get cut off from their necessary medications, regular health care provider, and their support systems so that would have an affect on them where they wouldnt get better and end back up in jail again. Another one that seems to suffer is the 52 percent of substance use disorder people. Again, they dont get the help they really need and end up doing the same thing they got arrested for. The next thing is that a lot of rearrested people come from low income places where they havent got much education, a lot also coming from the black communities. The article states that 42 percent of people who will go back to jail more than three times are blacks which show that a lot of them are in low income areas. I think overall, this article is showing us that there needs to be better health care to eliminate some reoffenders coming back to jail. I dont think there will ever be a time where every one arrested doesnt come back but we can for sure help that number go down for those who do. -wags002
It is sad how many people end up in jail simply because they are not getting the help that they need and deserve. It is a good thing that those who are going back to prison are only committing small crimes and not ones of a much greater magnitude. I also agree that poverty does have a very big role in people committing crimes, this could relate to crimes as small as petty thievery and as large as murder. I do believe that staying in a position of poverty and committing crimes is an act of being too lazy to find a legal way out of said poverty, hence why most people are stuck in the same position rather forcing themselves to do better and get out of it.JU002
I think the message is pretty clear. I think it’s time to consider arresting drug users and putting them directly into rehab. So these drug users don’t take up space in jail. I think after so many rehab stints there may be a point where its time to try and break their cycle by maybe just a year in jail. Not 15 years for a baggy of meth, but just a long enough stay that they don’t get the chance to use again. So they have that time away from the neighborhood they were in and maybe even a counselor to talk them into strategies of being better citizens. Jorg002
Right off the bat I believe there is a problem with the fact that there is over 4.9 million people arrested per year. Almost a quarter of them being the same people who are arrested again. There is not much of a rehab program to help get these prisoners back on to their feet after they are released, a lot of them only have the clothes on their back but are thrown back out into society and expected to conform and be okay. Granted most people are put into prison for very valid reasons and some may even believe they don’t deserve a second chance at life, but this doesn’t justify throwing them into a world they are no longer adjusted to, in prison there are a lot of people who fight for their life or are forced into gangs to avoid being killed, it is very difficult to have any type of reformation when you are thrown into a world that could possibly be worse then where they were at before. I believe this is why a vast majority of people are arrested again. Crime is all they know so it is what they are going to resort to when they are backed into a corner in the free world. We need better systems to give prisoners a running chance at becoming functioning members of society or else the prison populus and crime rate will steadily increase. Putting newly released prisoners into some sort of life skills class would be a great part of them becoming changed people, most of these prisoners leave with little to no skills and have no resume to allow for them to find a job and get back on their feet. There are very simple steps that could be taken to cause a very big change in the lives of prisoners. JU002
I do believe that staying in a position of poverty and committing crimes is an act of being too lazy to find a legal way out of said poverty, hence why most people are stuck in the same position rather forcing themselves to do better and get out of it. It is sad how many people end up in jail simply because they are not getting the help that they need and deserve. It is a good thing that those who are going back to prison are only committing small crimes and not ones of a much greater magnitude. So many things can contribute to reoffenders and that article sure showed us some of those things. I agree on what you say about when we realize they have their selves and families to take care of so sometimes they need to turn to for example selling weed on the streets to get that extra money to pay for their food. SH002
With 4.9 million people being arreseted is a huge problem to deal with. 3.4 million only arrested twice and 430,000 are being arrested again. With these arrests happing the ones that seem to be arrested multiple times are african americans who come from low income families, hardly no education and no employment. This is very accurate do to the fact that if you are poor or no income coming, you are more likely to steal or sale drugs just to feed your children and live. I find it interesting that, the more arrests made the health needs increase. Mental disorders, and substance abuse is more serious when it comes to arresting people. That being said it says taht to help treat mental health and over health concerns like HIV is hard to do. This also plays a role in why these people have a cycle of being in and put of jail, do to nowhere to live or no help on the outside. There has to be better help in jail and out of jail when it comes to helping people be rehabilitated before they come out of prison, so they can have the proper tools to handle life when they leave.
In this article, it talks about how people go to jail they don’t get the help in this article it talks about how when people go to jail, they don’t get the help that they needed.” At least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in four of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year.” Which makes since because most people who go to jail come back out and do the same thing. When people leave jail there are a lot of factors in play. Most of the time they might start off as a regular job and they see that job is not paying them enough and they turn to selling weed or stealing to get a them to where they want to be. When they go to jail, they get cut off from their necessary medications, regular health care provider, and their support systems so that would have an effect on them where they wouldn’t get better and end back up in jail again. Another one that seems to suffer is the 52 percent of substance use disorder people. Again, they don’t get the help they really need and end up doing the same thing they got arrested for. The next thing is that a lot of rearrested people come from low income places where they haven’t got much education, a lot also coming from the black communities. Granted most people are put into prison for very valid reasons and some may even believe they don’t deserve a second chance at life, but this doesn’t justify throwing them into a world they are no longer adjusted to, in prison there are a lot of people who fight for their life or are forced into gangs to avoid being killed, it is very difficult to have any type of reformation when you are thrown into a world that could possibly be worse than where they were at before. SH002
I think it’s unbelievable that out of the 4.9 million people that are arrested, 1 in 4 of those people will be booked again. It’s strange because jails and prisons are kind of supposed to be a deterrent for committing multiple crimes, but there are reasons we need to work on to help people and keep them from returning to jail or prison. The article suggests that that people with multiple arrests are a bit disproportioned. Those people in question are usually black, low-income, not very educated, and unemployed. The sad thing is, most of these arrests were for non-violent crimes. Another interesting factor is that a lot of the people with multiple arrests also have greater health needs. A lot of these people are picked up by the police responding to medical or mental health calls, rather than public safety problems. The issues with this is that people can have substance abuse issues, no health insurance, or can have psychological distress problems. The people labeled “frequent utilizers,” people who are in and out of jail more than three times, are at a massive disadvantage. These people are typically uneducated, unemployed, or have an annual income below $10,000. A worrying statistic is that 42% of frequent utilizers are black, and 61% of frequent utilizers have a substance use disorder. I think some of the reasons of these numbers being so high is how the conditions are for people after they get out of jail. The people who get out often waste their rehab training because they don’t have money, education, good health or a good neighbor hood to go back to. We should really look into following up on people who get out of jail to support them and to make sure they don’t come back to jail. This would probably cut down on the number of people returning to jail. -OUTATIME002
It can be called a vicious cycle. The elements of race, poverty and mental illness in the criminal justice and jail system are a reoccurring theme. These aspects, coupled with many members of the public using police as a “customer service” line have contributed to the circle of arrests and rearrests. People often call the police when there is a simple dispute or issue that may just require a peace officer for mediation. The article states that 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed yearly. One in four will return to jail within in that year. There are also so many people facing mental health crisis that end up in jail. This does nothing to help treat their symptoms and the lack of mental health facilities throughout the county has undoubtable contributed to the cycle of people going to jail multiple times in a year. Jailing someone without treating the underlying causes does nothing to reduce the chances of their return. Black Americans make up 13% of the population, yet are 21% of the arrestees. They are usually arrested for non-violent offences. Racial demographics usually indicate that minority groups tend to live in close proximity to people within their race. These areas are often heavily policed and as a result simple non-violent crimes end up being jailible offences. This may account for the disproportionate amount of arrests. There is also the social economic factors contributing to this cycle and there are some relatively reasonable ways that society can combat this cycle. Poverty is definitely a reoccurring theme with 49% of those arrested living below the poverty level. Vocational training and education are keys to curbing the amount of people jailed. Sixty-six percent of the people arrested only have a high school education or lower. Instead of sending people to jail for nonviolent crimes, they should review on a case by case basis for vocational training or education. If these people have the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty, this could reduce the amount of time spent in jail. –Zen002
I like the idea of reviewing arrests on a case by case basis for vocational training. I think a lot of it has to do with how law enforcement officers use their due diligence when handing calls in low income neighborhoods. I feel too often people in poverty are seen as "others" in the eyes of the law and this in ways influences their decision to arrest nonviolent offenders. To be honest I think people need more education on just how law enforcement works in high school. For instance I had no idea you could enquirer for a peace officer to mediate situations rather than calling the police. I imagine its very similar to people using the Emergency Room in a hospital when their problems could be solved simply and cheaply in Urgent Care. -CamSlifton002
A growing problem in the United States right now is people continuously cycling through the jails. Every year 4.9 million people are arrested and go through jails. Of the 4.9 million people 25% of them will go back to jail in that same year. Poverty, race, and disorders all have a correlation with repeated arrests. According to the article, “people who are jailed have much higher rates of social, economic, and health problems that cannot and should not be addressed through incarceration”. Jail is not the best suit for many people being arrested, because when they're thrown back into society they still have the same problems as before. People who are arrested more than two times in the same year are more likely to be unemployed, have an annual income below $10,000, or have less than a high school diploma. I think a lot of the times these same people going back to jail over and over again have it hard. Being in poverty with very little education would make it very hard to be successful. During the last year 49% of people arrested multiple times were in poverty. A more shocking statistic is that 66% of people with several arrests didn’t have more than a high school education. African Americans make up 21% of people who were arrested once. With this being said African Americans make up about 13% of the United States population. I don’t think this statistic means that African Americans are more prone to crime, but there is more of a surveillance on them. An example of “greater surveillance” would be racial profiling. More times than not people going in and out of jail frequently for low level offenses have medical or mental health problems. Jail obviously doesn’t do these people any good, because they end up right back in there. Getting these people the correct help they need would create a safer society, and keep the prison and jail populations lower. -CRJB002
You are correct on about a growing problem in the United States right now is people continuously cycling through the jails. I didn't like how people don't care and they get arrested again. The statistics was really high on substance use. I knew it would be that high. We do need to get help for the communities. Softball002
I love every recommendation suggested in this article. Too often people are arrested for low level, nonviolent offenses that do nothing but eat up taxpayer dollars which could be better spent elsewhere. I would completely support my money going to funding more public outreach programs for mental health and expanded social services for those displaced people in our society. Rather than criminalize mental illness and homelessness we should be helping these people who are out on our streets with no where to go. Jails are not asylums or mental institutions and we need to stop treating them as such. On another issue, many of these people being arrested for drug offenses are victims of addiction. A good portion of people who suffer from substance abuse disorder had accidents or illness in their past, are sent to the hospital where they develop a taste for opioids and when out, attempt self treatment with dangerous narcotics. These actions account for the startling prevalence of HIV in these offenders, which is directly related to this country's opioid crisis. Too often also are the economically disenfranchised singled out and targeted by police, so much so that it is every one in two people. This practice further diminishes economic prospects and continues the same circle of poverty that entrenches them in crime. With no social outreach, and a lack of upward mobility, there is not much we can expect the underprivileged to do but fall victim to the residential segregation they were born into. When all the opportunity that is available on your block is liquor store, bar, liquor store, 7-11, and a row of broken houses and a poorly funded public school system that collects taxes from the equally poor neighborhood you develop a hotbed of discontent. Discontent that does nothing to help police, or the criminal justice system in general. All that is developed is animosity between law enforcement and those in poverty. -CamSlifton002
I agree, I think it's almost a waste of money throwing people in jail for nonviolent crimes. Instead of these people thrown into jail which doesn't help them whatsoever, they should put them into programs that will. It doesn't do anybody any good looking away someone with a substance abuse problem, because once they get out they will be even lower than before. This cycle will just keep occurring until those people get the help that they need. I also agree that the poor need to be focused on too. More time than not the people continuously going to jail are in poverty. Targeting the core of these problems will create a better society for everyone. -CRJB002
One part of this article that I really love is let’s take the fight of crime to the community and say “if you don’t have a job and need one come to us.” Let’s make investments in our future have job fairs. We start by lowering how many people are incarcerated. Lower the amount of harsh sentences for nonviolent crimes. Then we can look to rehab to help our drug addicts. So, then we ask the question what do we do about people who leave rehab or quit? Now do we jail them? Give them a sentence? These topics are seriously tough topics. I think it starts with education. Then we make a smarter generation able to build this country and help create more jobs. We also need to rebuild the property in these areas. Property is a good factor to start with. Send the young men and women to trade schools. These men and women would then be able to become a part of the help in rebuilding their communities. The problem with today is a news media turning the races against each other. By displaying one sided arguments, to exploiting mishaps in the justice system. This creates this crack in the nation where white people feel like the bad people. Black people feel like white people hate them. This creates problems, because a white person in a black neighborhood is a rare occurrence, same with a black man in a white neighborhood. I want a world where the color of my neighbor doesn’t matter. I want to talk about football with everyone. I want there to be a point where we can all come together, with no stigma. I think the problem comes with the sentence I wrote saying white neighborhoods, and black neighborhoods. We should not be separated by race. Yet once again these are tough topics that are often multifaceted. I think overall we need to all come together to be the greatest nation on the planet earth. Jorg002
I love everything about your reply to this post especially about coming together to be the greatest nation on the planet earth. We definitely have the technology and education to be so why is all of this so hard for us still? Because like you said the media and many other factors are turning people of all races and social classes against each other and its really setting us back as a nation. I also think what you said about creating trade schools and teaching young women and men a trade would be very helpful to those communities where a lot of crime does happen and keep them busy and out of potential trouble. -Coffeeplease002
I love your idea to lower the incarcerated population and to host job fairs or something of that nature. I think our generation has the ability to really change the game when it comes to re offenders. I think we can create more job opportunities and more ways for people to be able to survive without having to commit crimes. I think if we all had the same mindset of making this world a better place there is no saying where we could take it. I agree with everything you are saying. -wb002
The article talks about how police and jails are misused to respond to social problems. Police and jails are to promote public safety. According to Jones and Sawyer, “ Increasingly, however, law enforcement is called upon to respond punitively to medical and economic problems unrelated to public safety issues. As a result, local jails are filled with people who need medical care and social services, many of whom cycle in and out of jail without ever receiving the help they need.” This means that they have to help the inmates and get them what they need in health wise but they aren't helping them out. 4.9 million people are arrested and brought to jail each year. They are saying more than 1 in 4 are jailed multiple times. This could be true but it also be a false statement. Black Americans arrested once rate was 21% but 28% are arrested multiple times. This reflects on residential segregation and racial profiling. Poverty is correlated to multiple arrests. Low education could be likely on the increased of an arrest. People that are arrested don’t like public safety. Multiple arrests are having greater health needs like mental illness, psychological distress, substance use, and no health insurance. Multiple arrest on mental illness was 25% , psychological distress has 30% , substance use has 52% , and no health insurance has 27%. I knew that substance use was going to be larger amount because people wont get rehab. We need to do something about this or try to help the community that is having problems. Softball002
I like this part of the article as well. We need better ways to deal with minor crimes to prevent recidivism. I agree that rehab is necessary for those involved with drugs and alcohol; however, other forms of rehabilitation can be used for crimes not involving substances, like communities to help those with emotional problems use their extra energy and angst in more positive ways. Incorporating trade school is a good idea too, but I also think that we should refrain from making arrests on minor crimes so that the work force and higher education will not be so difficult to enter as well. - Gamma002
In the article, it states that more than half of people that were arrested multiple times had reported tot having a substance use disorder in the past year; however, in contrasts, less than half of people with a reported substance abuse disorder were either not arrested or arrested just once. I believe that this shows that how simply jailing these people is accomplishing nothing and that recidivism is a huge problem in our correctional system. Proper rehabilitation and possibly relocation should be provided to these people to help ensure them a success and a future not behind bars. Parole is always a better option as well because most people end up suffering even more after they are released. A good portion of these arrests tend to be unemployed, uneducated, and low-income people who have even less of a chance getting a job once they have been arrested and released. If given the opportunity to improve and move on from their mistakes positively, people would be less likely to commit crimes and be arrested again, recidivism would decline. A lot of times mental health contributes to arrests as well. It is three times more likely for people that have been arrested multiple times to have a serious mental illness. Common kinds of serious psychological distress include depression and anxiety and are reported three times more by people with multiple arrests compared to people with no arrests in the past year. These people need proper help, like therapy or counseling to help with these disorders and keep them from out of jail. Anxiety and depression can cause people to be more violent or volatile and unable to control their actions as well as those without these disorders, so they can easily slip back into the crime if not properly treated. - Gamma002
The amount of people that return and keep returning to jails and prisons is astonishing. With all of the statistics available it is obvious that our corrections system is not working in the way it should. Right now it just seems like a holding place for people who have committed crimes. Our prisons and jails need to be rehabilitating our inmates so they can learn to grow from crime and contribute to society positively upon release. We have the information available to us to recognize the issues, but nothing will happen if we do not use the information to guide us. We need to provide inmates with higher education, counselling, drug rehabilitation, and opportunities to learn trades. Providing inmates with tools to survive on the outside will benefit them greatly. We also need to be paying attention to our young people in our communities to ensure they go to school, finish it, and have the support they need in their lives. I believe helping others within our communities can go a long way. -arm002
Only problem is some people think that jail is a free way of living three free meals and a warm place to sleep. Even though the income is low. They have opportunities to better them selves through schooling and getting a GED or a degree of some kind. Each prison has different classification from your low to high risk institutions. Either way the system needs fixed and reformed but its all up to the prisoners on how they want to control their lives. We just need to focus on the programs to get the inmates better because each one is different with their own problems. Navy002
This article describes in detail how many people go to jail each year, how many return to jail, and which underlying problems fuel this awful cycle. As we continue to talk about this issue I hope things will change in the future. A new analysis of a federal survey states this, “at least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in 4 of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year” that is an insane amount of people returning back to jail. These are called frequent utilizers. The returning rate is so high due to race and poverty and also because of mental health disorders along with substance abuse issues. Then the article basically says that most people with those issues need better or different help rather than being incarcerated because the issues are so problematic. We should be spending more time and money trying to help and heal these people rather than locking them up, hoping they “learn their lesson”, and then setting them free right back into the same position that lead them to being locked up in the first place. In the end we’re spending more money by continuously locking them up instead of just getting them the best proper help the first time around. Now I understand you can only help an adult so much and if they choose to not help themselves it’s almost impossible to change their ways but I think by actually providing the best help we could rehabilitate prisoners and help them live their best lives out in the real world. I really find it helpful that this article offers recommendations to breaking the cycle of frequent utilizers. Officers should reduce the number of arrests and jailable offenses because then defendants could wait for their court date at home instead of sitting in jail for weeks or months at a time. --Coffeeplease002
I agree with you it is awful how many people are in the recurring cycle of getting arrested. We need to learn how to help these people who return back to jail, by getting them health care for mental and physical problems. Many of these people do not know how to get a good job and have the motivation to keep it. Yet it still blows my mind how many minorities we have locked up, why is this? We need to find alternative solutions and rehabilitation centers for these repeaters, because being locked up is definitely not benefiting them or our community. -KF002
Wow, what can I say I agree with you completely when you said the returning rate is so high due to poverty, mental health disorders and substance abuse. Because these issues are so problematic there people are not getting help, instead they are being thrown in jail. I think that it's very important for people who have mental disorders, and drug addicts to be help. The reason why is because a drug addict have have fallen on hard times and the only thing left in their eyes is drugs. I think that people with mental disorders do not get the treatment that they seriously need. -Jas002
Nearly 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed every year. Surprisingly one out of four individuals are arrested more than once in a single year. The majority of repeated arrests are mainly related to race, poverty, mental illness, and substance abuse. Many of the people in these institutions have higher social, economic, and health problems, that should not be fixed with time locked away. From the data in 2017 from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), we see that out of the nearly 4.9 million arrested, 3.5 million were only arrested once; 930,000 were arrested twice; and 430,000 were arrests three times or more in just one year. The people who are being arrested multiple times are more likely to be poor, jobless, and have less than a high school education. Sadly and disproportionately African Americans are more likely to be arrested and to be repeat arrests. Forty-two percent of people arrested more than three times are black. Over half of the people who are arrested multiple times suffer from some sort of substance abuse. Half of these people have a yearly income under $10,000 and eighty-five percent have incomes below $20,000. Many of these repeat arrests are due to poor education, low incomes, and the color of their skin. We need to stop arresting people and giving them so much time for miniscule offenses when they typically are not even a threat to society. Together we must find a way to improve the health factors of these inmates, also we need to focus on rehabilitation and how to make them a functioning part of society. We must to better for our people in this world. After all the police and correctional officers are meant to better public safety. To better the community we must better the people stuck in the system. -KF002
This article is based upon reoffenders, one out of four people released from jail will reoffend and find themselves behind bars again. The research shows that race, poverty, substance abuse, and mental illness play a huge role in repeat offenders. With all the research that has been done it shows that those who have been jailed have big social, economic, and mental health issues. Around 4.9 million people were jailed in 2017. Out of those 4.9 million, 3.5 were arrested once, 930,000 arrested 2 times, and 430,000 were arrested three or more times. Those that are arrested more than once typically are poor, unemployed, and have a high school education at best. 21% of black men and women were arrested once and 28% were arrested multiple times. Racial profiling and residential segregation is partly to blame for that statistic. 49% of poeple with more than one arrest made a annual income of $10,000 or less. 66% of people with multiple arrests had less than a highschool education. People with multiple arrests are 4 times less likely to be employed than someone with a clean record. 88% of people with multiple arrests in the past year have not been arrested for a serious crime. Those people with multiple arrests were 3 times more likely to suffer from a mental illness and nearly 52% of reoffenders have a substance abuse problem within the last year. From what I gathered in this article, its that repeat offenders are generally low income, little education, and suffer from some sort of substance abuse or mental health problem. This system is just a vicious cycle for most. Once they are arrested it is hard for them to find a job or to get their lives back on track. That is why they just commit another crime, we need to come up with some sort of rehabilitation center or something else to help these people out instead of just putting them back in the system time and time again. -wb002
The socialization system in our bigger inner cities is a bad epidemic. But the government is partially to blame because its all about the votes. But sadly most of the inner cities neighborhoods have the high crime. Bad school system. Mainly because they don't have the funding from the government to provide them with adequate funds. There fore most people depend on other ways of coping with their environment. For example drug and other substance abuse. On top of that, most cant afford health insurance and being inner city most low income the justice system is a free way to get access to health care. Being homeless is another thing as the cost of living goes up with the lack of education people have no resort but to do what comes natural survive ability. You do what you have to do to get by. Maybe like the article said we need to focus on the less minor misdemeanors give them a little more slack and focus on substance programs reeducation workshops to get citizens to agree to follow the law and be upstanding citizens. As per mental illness, I think its a day by day case. A professional should be able to differentiate of how serious the crime is or was and subject that to the prosecuting attorney or judge whatever. As of jail able offenses I do agree on home confinement this would save money and beds in the jail for more serious criminal offenders. Maybe it depends on the communities involvement also to help reform the system to help people that want the help get better through substance abuse programs. The article also talked about closing jails? I could this as a money saver but would it help the people in the long run? Wouldn’t this lead to other jails being overcrowded? Navy002
I truly agree on this, it can be very political at times and that's why I feel we are in that constant cycle of no change in the criminal justice system. Private prisons make their money off the people who they incarcerate, so why would they be in agreeance with the reform of the criminal justice system. I also agree with the cycle too, people who get addicted to drugs can not pay for rehab, so they just continue to get locked up and that something I wont ever understand. I also believe a big change can come after the politicians are on board. -as002
This is my favorite article thus far. This article talks about when people get arrested they are released but don't get the help they need so they go back into prison. According to the article, Arrest release, repeat there are 4.9 million people arrested each year. Out of those 4.9 million people being arrested one of four of these people are rebooked into jail each year. I think the reason why is people when people are sent to jail, they automatically think they are being punished. They have to tell you when to eat sleep and even use the bathroom. They take away television, and you can only us the phone at a certain time of the day. A person whos been arrested for stealing money to buy drugs would have a hard time adjusting to the jail lifestyle. Instead of giving a drug addict a group home , counseling or even rehab the states are throwing these people in jail. I think that is a horrible idea because everybody needs a second chance at life, maybe even a third chance. I think that a person who is addicted to drugs should not be sent to jail, whether its cocaine, or weed. In this article my favorite fact proved was that people with multiple arrests are more likely to be poor, unemployed, and have less than a highschool education. It may be hard for people to find a great job after being incarcerated because when your sitting in jail its nearly impossible to build a resume. When it's time to be released from prison, everything will be on your background until say 5 years are up. So now this person just did 8 years in prison for a drug r elated crime, and in order for it not be on a background you have to wait 5 years. The system is set up for us to repeat the crime and be arrested. -Jas002
4.9 million people are incarcerated each year. It blows my mind how this number is so large. I also have a question on what percentage is actually being rehabilitated.This article then gets into the facts on who is being incarcerated as far as race goes. I really do think it needs to be added due to the fact that looking into something like this, race will forever be a factor. Following that, the article then gets into how the mental health of an individual can really take negative measures, even being incarcerated for a couple of days can affect an inmate drastically. I agree with this only because the mental health aspect of a person isn't something than can be changed just over night. Having mental health issues is something that has to be worked on and also the behaviors of these individuals. In all, the behaviors of these mental health cases is usually what ends them in jail. Incarcerating people with mental health is seen as rehabilitating this certain person, but in reality it sometimes can be seen as making somebody worse. So, when these people are then put on to the street they are repeated offenders because the incarceration has now only made them worse. Overseeing all types of incarcerating, big measures are going to be taken. We as a country, in my opinion have not really attempted reform in the criminal justice system. Which is mind blowing because time changes a lot of things in our society, so we need to mirror that as well in our criminal justice system. The fact of the matter is, we are locking individuals up who can have better opportunities as if they are being kept on the streets.I believe also we are slowly attempting to make strides but it obviously is not something that can be done overnight. -as002
In this article it talks about how when people go to jail they don’t get the help that they needed.”At least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in four of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year.” Which makes since because most people who go to jail come back out and do the same thing. When people leave jail there are a lot of factors in play. If they follow all the rules during there parole, if they can find a job and actually keep it, and what type of people they are hanging around. Are they going back to hang around the people they got in trouble with the first time or are they around a good supporting family that’s going to make sure they stay on the right path. Then it also depends on what type of crime they were put in jail for. If it’s a nonviolent offense like a drug crime or stealing. Did they get to go to rehab or did they talk to a mandatory therapists. Talking to someone and having them actually listen to you can make a huge difference in someone’s life. “Our analysis shows that people with multiple arrests are disproportionately: Black, low income, less educated, and unemployed. Moreover, the vast majority are arrested for nonviolent offenses. This suggest that instead of incarceration, which diminishes economic prospects, public investments in employment assistanc, education and vocational training, and financial assistance to police contact in the first place.” Which I agree with especially for non violent offenders. Most of the time they have families and all there trying to do it feed themselves and there kids. Most of the time they might start off as a regular job and they see that job is not paying them enough and they turn to selling weed or stealing to get a them to where they want to be. Batman002
ReplyDeleteSo many things can contribute to reoffenders and that article sure showed us some of those things. I agree on what you say about when we realize they have their selves and families to take care of so sometimes they need to turn to for example selling weed on the streets to get that extra money to pay for their food. Hence why a lot of reoffenders come from low income areas. It all makes sense however it is sad that there are people that poor. Also it is sad that some aren't getting the help they truly need to stay out of the jails. Money has a big impact on whether they get what they need or not and that is hard for the low income people however I am sure there are ways to find good care for an accommodating price. -wags002
DeleteI honestly believe following up on people coming out of jail will cut down on the number of people returning to jail. We could do this by closely working with people who don't have a lot of education and giving them an opportunity to give them at least a GED when they get out. We could help people with illnesses by reforming our current healthcare systems in the for people with serious health needs. This will be tough to fix but we really should do something about this sooner rather than later. This will be difficult, but I think it can be done. -OUTATIME002
DeleteThis article was interesting in the fact it showed the statistics of people going back to jail multiple times and what could be the factors of why they are going back. It mentions that "atleast 4.9 million people are jailed each year and that 1 in 4 will go back multiple times." Thats a lot of people going to jail, and multiple people going back and back again. Some factors that seem to keep the cycle going is poverty, race, mental illnesses, and substance use disorders. Now with that being known, it seems that the people with these aren't getting the help that they need which causes them to cycle in and out of the jail system. The good thing is that most rearrested individuals dont pose as a great threat on society since they keep committing less serious crimes however like said before they aren't getting the help they need to stay out of jail. With that being said, the mentally ill suffer a lot due to their extensive list of health needs and jail isn't the best place to help them at all. When they go to jail they get cut off from their necessary medications, regular health care provider, and their support systems so that would have an affect on them where they wouldnt get better and end back up in jail again. Another one that seems to suffer is the 52 percent of substance use disorder people. Again, they dont get the help they really need and end up doing the same thing they got arrested for. The next thing is that a lot of rearrested people come from low income places where they havent got much education, a lot also coming from the black communities. The article states that 42 percent of people who will go back to jail more than three times are blacks which show that a lot of them are in low income areas. I think overall, this article is showing us that there needs to be better health care to eliminate some reoffenders coming back to jail. I dont think there will ever be a time where every one arrested doesnt come back but we can for sure help that number go down for those who do. -wags002
ReplyDeleteIt is sad how many people end up in jail simply because they are not getting the help that they need and deserve. It is a good thing that those who are going back to prison are only committing small crimes and not ones of a much greater magnitude. I also agree that poverty does have a very big role in people committing crimes, this could relate to crimes as small as petty thievery and as large as murder. I do believe that staying in a position of poverty and committing crimes is an act of being too lazy to find a legal way out of said poverty, hence why most people are stuck in the same position rather forcing themselves to do better and get out of it.JU002
DeleteI think the message is pretty clear. I think it’s time to consider arresting drug users and putting them directly into rehab. So these drug users don’t take up space in jail. I think after so many rehab stints there may be a point where its time to try and break their cycle by maybe just a year in jail. Not 15 years for a baggy of meth, but just a long enough stay that they don’t get the chance to use again. So they have that time away from the neighborhood they were in and maybe even a counselor to talk them into strategies of being better citizens. Jorg002
DeleteRight off the bat I believe there is a problem with the fact that there is over 4.9 million people arrested per year. Almost a quarter of them being the same people who are arrested again. There is not much of a rehab program to help get these prisoners back on to their feet after they are released, a lot of them only have the clothes on their back but are thrown back out into society and expected to conform and be okay. Granted most people are put into prison for very valid reasons and some may even believe they don’t deserve a second chance at life, but this doesn’t justify throwing them into a world they are no longer adjusted to, in prison there are a lot of people who fight for their life or are forced into gangs to avoid being killed, it is very difficult to have any type of reformation when you are thrown into a world that could possibly be worse then where they were at before. I believe this is why a vast majority of people are arrested again. Crime is all they know so it is what they are going to resort to when they are backed into a corner in the free world. We need better systems to give prisoners a running chance at becoming functioning members of society or else the prison populus and crime rate will steadily increase. Putting newly released prisoners into some sort of life skills class would be a great part of them becoming changed people, most of these prisoners leave with little to no skills and have no resume to allow for them to find a job and get back on their feet. There are very simple steps that could be taken to cause a very big change in the lives of prisoners. JU002
ReplyDeleteI do believe that staying in a position of poverty and committing crimes is an act of being too lazy to find a legal way out of said poverty, hence why most people are stuck in the same position rather forcing themselves to do better and get out of it. It is sad how many people end up in jail simply because they are not getting the help that they need and deserve. It is a good thing that those who are going back to prison are only committing small crimes and not ones of a much greater magnitude. So many things can contribute to reoffenders and that article sure showed us some of those things. I agree on what you say about when we realize they have their selves and families to take care of so sometimes they need to turn to for example selling weed on the streets to get that extra money to pay for their food. SH002
DeleteWith 4.9 million people being arreseted is a huge problem to deal with. 3.4 million only arrested twice and 430,000 are being arrested again. With these arrests happing the ones that seem to be arrested multiple times are african americans who come from low income families, hardly no education and no employment. This is very accurate do to the fact that if you are poor or no income coming, you are more likely to steal or sale drugs just to feed your children and live. I find it interesting that, the more arrests made the health needs increase. Mental disorders, and substance abuse is more serious when it comes to arresting people. That being said it says taht to help treat mental health and over health concerns like HIV is hard to do. This also plays a role in why these people have a cycle of being in and put of jail, do to nowhere to live or no help on the outside. There has to be better help in jail and out of jail when it comes to helping people be rehabilitated before they come out of prison, so they can have the proper tools to handle life when they leave.
DeleteIn this article, it talks about how people go to jail they don’t get the help in this article it talks about how when people go to jail, they don’t get the help that they needed.” At least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in four of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year.” Which makes since because most people who go to jail come back out and do the same thing. When people leave jail there are a lot of factors in play. Most of the time they might start off as a regular job and they see that job is not paying them enough and they turn to selling weed or stealing to get a them to where they want to be. When they go to jail, they get cut off from their necessary medications, regular health care provider, and their support systems so that would have an effect on them where they wouldn’t get better and end back up in jail again. Another one that seems to suffer is the 52 percent of substance use disorder people. Again, they don’t get the help they really need and end up doing the same thing they got arrested for. The next thing is that a lot of rearrested people come from low income places where they haven’t got much education, a lot also coming from the black communities. Granted most people are put into prison for very valid reasons and some may even believe they don’t deserve a second chance at life, but this doesn’t justify throwing them into a world they are no longer adjusted to, in prison there are a lot of people who fight for their life or are forced into gangs to avoid being killed, it is very difficult to have any type of reformation when you are thrown into a world that could possibly be worse than where they were at before. SH002
ReplyDeleteI think it’s unbelievable that out of the 4.9 million people that are arrested, 1 in 4 of those people will be booked again. It’s strange because jails and prisons are kind of supposed to be a deterrent for committing multiple crimes, but there are reasons we need to work on to help people and keep them from returning to jail or prison. The article suggests that that people with multiple arrests are a bit disproportioned. Those people in question are usually black, low-income, not very educated, and unemployed. The sad thing is, most of these arrests were for non-violent crimes. Another interesting factor is that a lot of the people with multiple arrests also have greater health needs. A lot of these people are picked up by the police responding to medical or mental health calls, rather than public safety problems. The issues with this is that people can have substance abuse issues, no health insurance, or can have psychological distress problems. The people labeled “frequent utilizers,” people who are in and out of jail more than three times, are at a massive disadvantage. These people are typically uneducated, unemployed, or have an annual income below $10,000. A worrying statistic is that 42% of frequent utilizers are black, and 61% of frequent utilizers have a substance use disorder. I think some of the reasons of these numbers being so high is how the conditions are for people after they get out of jail. The people who get out often waste their rehab training because they don’t have money, education, good health or a good neighbor hood to go back to. We should really look into following up on people who get out of jail to support them and to make sure they don’t come back to jail. This would probably cut down on the number of people returning to jail. -OUTATIME002
ReplyDeleteIt can be called a vicious cycle. The elements of race, poverty and mental illness in the criminal justice and jail system are a reoccurring theme. These aspects, coupled with many members of the public using police as a “customer service” line have contributed to the circle of arrests and rearrests. People often call the police when there is a simple dispute or issue that may just require a peace officer for mediation. The article states that 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed yearly. One in four will return to jail within in that year. There are also so many people facing mental health crisis that end up in jail. This does nothing to help treat their symptoms and the lack of mental health facilities throughout the county has undoubtable contributed to the cycle of people going to jail multiple times in a year. Jailing someone without treating the underlying causes does nothing to reduce the chances of their return. Black Americans make up 13% of the population, yet are 21% of the arrestees. They are usually arrested for non-violent offences. Racial demographics usually indicate that minority groups tend to live in close proximity to people within their race. These areas are often heavily policed and as a result simple non-violent crimes end up being jailible offences. This may account for the disproportionate amount of arrests. There is also the social economic factors contributing to this cycle and there are some relatively reasonable ways that society can combat this cycle. Poverty is definitely a reoccurring theme with 49% of those arrested living below the poverty level. Vocational training and education are keys to curbing the amount of people jailed. Sixty-six percent of the people arrested only have a high school education or lower. Instead of sending people to jail for nonviolent crimes, they should review on a case by case basis for vocational training or education. If these people have the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty, this could reduce the amount of time spent in jail. –Zen002
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of reviewing arrests on a case by case basis for vocational training. I think a lot of it has to do with how law enforcement officers use their due diligence when handing calls in low income neighborhoods. I feel too often people in poverty are seen as "others" in the eyes of the law and this in ways influences their decision to arrest nonviolent offenders. To be honest I think people need more education on just how law enforcement works in high school. For instance I had no idea you could enquirer for a peace officer to mediate situations rather than calling the police. I imagine its very similar to people using the Emergency Room in a hospital when their problems could be solved simply and cheaply in Urgent Care. -CamSlifton002
DeleteA growing problem in the United States right now is people continuously cycling through the jails. Every year 4.9 million people are arrested and go through jails. Of the 4.9 million people 25% of them will go back to jail in that same year. Poverty, race, and disorders all have a correlation with repeated arrests. According to the article, “people who are jailed have much higher rates of social, economic, and health problems that cannot and should not be addressed through incarceration”. Jail is not the best suit for many people being arrested, because when they're thrown back into society they still have the same problems as before. People who are arrested more than two times in the same year are more likely to be unemployed, have an annual income below $10,000, or have less than a high school diploma. I think a lot of the times these same people going back to jail over and over again have it hard. Being in poverty with very little education would make it very hard to be successful. During the last year 49% of people arrested multiple times were in poverty. A more shocking statistic is that 66% of people with several arrests didn’t have more than a high school education. African Americans make up 21% of people who were arrested once. With this being said African Americans make up about 13% of the United States population. I don’t think this statistic means that African Americans are more prone to crime, but there is more of a surveillance on them. An example of “greater surveillance” would be racial profiling. More times than not people going in and out of jail frequently for low level offenses have medical or mental health problems. Jail obviously doesn’t do these people any good, because they end up right back in there. Getting these people the correct help they need would create a safer society, and keep the prison and jail populations lower. -CRJB002
ReplyDeleteYou are correct on about a growing problem in the United States right now is people continuously cycling through the jails. I didn't like how people don't care and they get arrested again. The statistics was really high on substance use. I knew it would be that high. We do need to get help for the communities. Softball002
DeleteI love every recommendation suggested in this article. Too often people are arrested for low level, nonviolent offenses that do nothing but eat up taxpayer dollars which could be better spent elsewhere. I would completely support my money going to funding more public outreach programs for mental health and expanded social services for those displaced people in our society. Rather than criminalize mental illness and homelessness we should be helping these people who are out on our streets with no where to go. Jails are not asylums or mental institutions and we need to stop treating them as such. On another issue, many of these people being arrested for drug offenses are victims of addiction. A good portion of people who suffer from substance abuse disorder had accidents or illness in their past, are sent to the hospital where they develop a taste for opioids and when out, attempt self treatment with dangerous narcotics. These actions account for the startling prevalence of HIV in these offenders, which is directly related to this country's opioid crisis. Too often also are the economically disenfranchised singled out and targeted by police, so much so that it is every one in two people. This practice further diminishes economic prospects and continues the same circle of poverty that entrenches them in crime. With no social outreach, and a lack of upward mobility, there is not much we can expect the underprivileged to do but fall victim to the residential segregation they were born into. When all the opportunity that is available on your block is liquor store, bar, liquor store, 7-11, and a row of broken houses and a poorly funded public school system that collects taxes from the equally poor neighborhood you develop a hotbed of discontent. Discontent that does nothing to help police, or the criminal justice system in general. All that is developed is animosity between law enforcement and those in poverty. -CamSlifton002
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think it's almost a waste of money throwing people in jail for nonviolent crimes. Instead of these people thrown into jail which doesn't help them whatsoever, they should put them into programs that will. It doesn't do anybody any good looking away someone with a substance abuse problem, because once they get out they will be even lower than before. This cycle will just keep occurring until those people get the help that they need. I also agree that the poor need to be focused on too. More time than not the people continuously going to jail are in poverty. Targeting the core of these problems will create a better society for everyone. -CRJB002
DeleteOne part of this article that I really love is let’s take the fight of crime to the community and say “if you don’t have a job and need one come to us.” Let’s make investments in our future have job fairs. We start by lowering how many people are incarcerated. Lower the amount of harsh sentences for nonviolent crimes. Then we can look to rehab to help our drug addicts. So, then we ask the question what do we do about people who leave rehab or quit? Now do we jail them? Give them a sentence? These topics are seriously tough topics. I think it starts with education. Then we make a smarter generation able to build this country and help create more jobs. We also need to rebuild the property in these areas. Property is a good factor to start with. Send the young men and women to trade schools. These men and women would then be able to become a part of the help in rebuilding their communities. The problem with today is a news media turning the races against each other. By displaying one sided arguments, to exploiting mishaps in the justice system. This creates this crack in the nation where white people feel like the bad people. Black people feel like white people hate them. This creates problems, because a white person in a black neighborhood is a rare occurrence, same with a black man in a white neighborhood. I want a world where the color of my neighbor doesn’t matter. I want to talk about football with everyone. I want there to be a point where we can all come together, with no stigma. I think the problem comes with the sentence I wrote saying white neighborhoods, and black neighborhoods. We should not be separated by race. Yet once again these are tough topics that are often multifaceted. I think overall we need to all come together to be the greatest nation on the planet earth. Jorg002
ReplyDeleteI love everything about your reply to this post especially about coming together to be the greatest nation on the planet earth. We definitely have the technology and education to be so why is all of this so hard for us still? Because like you said the media and many other factors are turning people of all races and social classes against each other and its really setting us back as a nation. I also think what you said about creating trade schools and teaching young women and men a trade would be very helpful to those communities where a lot of crime does happen and keep them busy and out of potential trouble.
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I love your idea to lower the incarcerated population and to host job fairs or something of that nature. I think our generation has the ability to really change the game when it comes to re offenders. I think we can create more job opportunities and more ways for people to be able to survive without having to commit crimes. I think if we all had the same mindset of making this world a better place there is no saying where we could take it. I agree with everything you are saying. -wb002
DeleteThe article talks about how police and jails are misused to respond to social problems. Police and jails are to promote public safety. According to Jones and Sawyer, “ Increasingly, however, law enforcement is called upon to respond punitively to medical and economic problems unrelated to public safety issues. As a result, local jails are filled with people who need medical care and social services, many of whom cycle in and out of jail without ever receiving the help they need.” This means that they have to help the inmates and get them what they need in health wise but they aren't helping them out. 4.9 million people are arrested and brought to jail each year. They are saying more than 1 in 4 are jailed multiple times. This could be true but it also be a false statement. Black Americans arrested once rate was 21% but 28% are arrested multiple times. This reflects on residential segregation and racial profiling. Poverty is correlated to multiple arrests. Low education could be likely on the increased of an arrest. People that are arrested don’t like public safety. Multiple arrests are having greater health needs like mental illness, psychological distress, substance use, and no health insurance. Multiple arrest on mental illness was 25% , psychological distress has 30% , substance use has 52% , and no health insurance has 27%. I knew that substance use was going to be larger amount because people wont get rehab. We need to do something about this or try to help the community that is having problems. Softball002
ReplyDeleteI like this part of the article as well. We need better ways to deal with minor crimes to prevent recidivism. I agree that rehab is necessary for those involved with drugs and alcohol; however, other forms of rehabilitation can be used for crimes not involving substances, like communities to help those with emotional problems use their extra energy and angst in more positive ways. Incorporating trade school is a good idea too, but I also think that we should refrain from making arrests on minor crimes so that the work force and higher education will not be so difficult to enter as well. - Gamma002
ReplyDeleteIn the article, it states that more than half of people that were arrested multiple times had reported tot having a substance use disorder in the past year; however, in contrasts, less than half of people with a reported substance abuse disorder were either not arrested or arrested just once. I believe that this shows that how simply jailing these people is accomplishing nothing and that recidivism is a huge problem in our correctional system. Proper rehabilitation and possibly relocation should be provided to these people to help ensure them a success and a future not behind bars. Parole is always a better option as well because most people end up suffering even more after they are released. A good portion of these arrests tend to be unemployed, uneducated, and low-income people who have even less of a chance getting a job once they have been arrested and released. If given the opportunity to improve and move on from their mistakes positively, people would be less likely to commit crimes and be arrested again, recidivism would decline. A lot of times mental health contributes to arrests as well. It is three times more likely for people that have been arrested multiple times to have a serious mental illness. Common kinds of serious psychological distress include depression and anxiety and are reported three times more by people with multiple arrests compared to people with no arrests in the past year. These people need proper help, like therapy or counseling to help with these disorders and keep them from out of jail. Anxiety and depression can cause people to be more violent or volatile and unable to control their actions as well as those without these disorders, so they can easily slip back into the crime if not properly treated. - Gamma002
ReplyDeleteThe amount of people that return and keep returning to jails and prisons is astonishing. With all of the statistics available it is obvious that our corrections system is not working in the way it should. Right now it just seems like a holding place for people who have committed crimes. Our prisons and jails need to be rehabilitating our inmates so they can learn to grow from crime and contribute to society positively upon release. We have the information available to us to recognize the issues, but nothing will happen if we do not use the information to guide us. We need to provide inmates with higher education, counselling, drug rehabilitation, and opportunities to learn trades. Providing inmates with tools to survive on the outside will benefit them greatly. We also need to be paying attention to our young people in our communities to ensure they go to school, finish it, and have the support they need in their lives. I believe helping others within our communities can go a long way. -arm002
ReplyDeleteOnly problem is some people think that jail is a free way of living three free meals and a warm place to sleep. Even though the income is low. They have opportunities to better them selves through schooling and getting a GED or a degree of some kind. Each prison has different classification from your low to high risk institutions. Either way the system needs fixed and reformed but its all up to the prisoners on how they want to control their lives. We just need to focus on the programs to get the inmates better because each one is different with their own problems. Navy002
DeleteThis article describes in detail how many people go to jail each year, how many return to jail, and which underlying problems fuel this awful cycle. As we continue to talk about this issue I hope things will change in the future. A new analysis of a federal survey states this, “at least 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed each year, and at least one in 4 of those individuals are booked into jail more than once during the same year” that is an insane amount of people returning back to jail. These are called frequent utilizers. The returning rate is so high due to race and poverty and also because of mental health disorders along with substance abuse issues. Then the article basically says that most people with those issues need better or different help rather than being incarcerated because the issues are so problematic. We should be spending more time and money trying to help and heal these people rather than locking them up, hoping they “learn their lesson”, and then setting them free right back into the same position that lead them to being locked up in the first place. In the end we’re spending more money by continuously locking them up instead of just getting them the best proper help the first time around. Now I understand you can only help an adult so much and if they choose to not help themselves it’s almost impossible to change their ways but I think by actually providing the best help we could rehabilitate prisoners and help them live their best lives out in the real world. I really find it helpful that this article offers recommendations to breaking the cycle of frequent utilizers. Officers should reduce the number of arrests and jailable offenses because then defendants could wait for their court date at home instead of sitting in jail for weeks or months at a time.
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I agree with you it is awful how many people are in the recurring cycle of getting arrested. We need to learn how to help these people who return back to jail, by getting them health care for mental and physical problems. Many of these people do not know how to get a good job and have the motivation to keep it. Yet it still blows my mind how many minorities we have locked up, why is this? We need to find alternative solutions and rehabilitation centers for these repeaters, because being locked up is definitely not benefiting them or our community.
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Wow, what can I say I agree with you completely when you said the returning rate is so high due to poverty, mental health disorders and substance abuse. Because these issues are so problematic there people are not getting help, instead they are being thrown in jail. I think that it's very important for people who have mental disorders, and drug addicts to be help. The reason why is because a drug addict have have fallen on hard times and the only thing left in their eyes is drugs. I think that people with mental disorders do not get the treatment that they seriously need.
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Nearly 4.9 million people are arrested and jailed every year. Surprisingly one out of four individuals are arrested more than once in a single year. The majority of repeated arrests are mainly related to race, poverty, mental illness, and substance abuse. Many of the people in these institutions have higher social, economic, and health problems, that should not be fixed with time locked away. From the data in 2017 from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), we see that out of the nearly 4.9 million arrested, 3.5 million were only arrested once; 930,000 were arrested twice; and 430,000 were arrests three times or more in just one year. The people who are being arrested multiple times are more likely to be poor, jobless, and have less than a high school education. Sadly and disproportionately African Americans are more likely to be arrested and to be repeat arrests. Forty-two percent of people arrested more than three times are black. Over half of the people who are arrested multiple times suffer from some sort of substance abuse. Half of these people have a yearly income under $10,000 and eighty-five percent have incomes below $20,000. Many of these repeat arrests are due to poor education, low incomes, and the color of their skin. We need to stop arresting people and giving them so much time for miniscule offenses when they typically are not even a threat to society. Together we must find a way to improve the health factors of these inmates, also we need to focus on rehabilitation and how to make them a functioning part of society. We must to better for our people in this world. After all the police and correctional officers are meant to better public safety. To better the community we must better the people stuck in the system.
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This article is based upon reoffenders, one out of four people released from jail will reoffend and find themselves behind bars again. The research shows that race, poverty, substance abuse, and mental illness play a huge role in repeat offenders. With all the research that has been done it shows that those who have been jailed have big social, economic, and mental health issues. Around 4.9 million people were jailed in 2017. Out of those 4.9 million, 3.5 were arrested once, 930,000 arrested 2 times, and 430,000 were arrested three or more times. Those that are arrested more than once typically are poor, unemployed, and have a high school education at best. 21% of black men and women were arrested once and 28% were arrested multiple times. Racial profiling and residential segregation is partly to blame for that statistic. 49% of poeple with more than one arrest made a annual income of $10,000 or less. 66% of people with multiple arrests had less than a highschool education. People with multiple arrests are 4 times less likely to be employed than someone with a clean record. 88% of people with multiple arrests in the past year have not been arrested for a serious crime. Those people with multiple arrests were 3 times more likely to suffer from a mental illness and nearly 52% of reoffenders have a substance abuse problem within the last year. From what I gathered in this article, its that repeat offenders are generally low income, little education, and suffer from some sort of substance abuse or mental health problem. This system is just a vicious cycle for most. Once they are arrested it is hard for them to find a job or to get their lives back on track. That is why they just commit another crime, we need to come up with some sort of rehabilitation center or something else to help these people out instead of just putting them back in the system time and time again. -wb002
ReplyDeleteThe socialization system in our bigger inner cities is a bad epidemic. But the government is partially to blame because its all about the votes. But sadly most of the inner cities neighborhoods have the high crime. Bad school system. Mainly because they don't have the funding from the government to provide them with adequate funds. There fore most people depend on other ways of coping with their environment. For example drug and other substance abuse. On top of that, most cant afford health insurance and being inner city most low income the justice system is a free way to get access to health care. Being homeless is another thing as the cost of living goes up with the lack of education people have no resort but to do what comes natural survive ability. You do what you have to do to get by. Maybe like the article said we need to focus on the less minor misdemeanors give them a little more slack and focus on substance programs reeducation workshops to get citizens to agree to follow the law and be upstanding citizens. As per mental illness, I think its a day by day case. A professional should be able to differentiate of how serious the crime is or was and subject that to the prosecuting attorney or judge whatever. As of jail able offenses I do agree on home confinement this would save money and beds in the jail for more serious criminal offenders. Maybe it depends on the communities involvement also to help reform the system to help people that want the help get better through substance abuse programs. The article also talked about closing jails? I could this as a money saver but would it help the people in the long run? Wouldn’t this lead to other jails being overcrowded? Navy002
ReplyDeleteI truly agree on this, it can be very political at times and that's why I feel we are in that constant cycle of no change in the criminal justice system. Private prisons make their money off the people who they incarcerate, so why would they be in agreeance with the reform of the criminal justice system. I also agree with the cycle too, people who get addicted to drugs can not pay for rehab, so they just continue to get locked up and that something I wont ever understand. I also believe a big change can come after the politicians are on board. -as002
DeleteThis is my favorite article thus far. This article talks about when people get arrested they are released but don't get the help they need so they go back into prison. According to the article, Arrest release, repeat there are 4.9 million people arrested each year. Out of those 4.9 million people being arrested one of four of these people are rebooked into jail each year. I think the reason why is people when people are sent to jail, they automatically think they are being punished. They have to tell you when to eat sleep and even use the bathroom. They take away television, and you can only us the phone at a certain time of the day. A person whos been arrested for stealing money to buy drugs would have a hard time adjusting to the jail lifestyle. Instead of giving a drug addict a group home , counseling or even rehab the states are throwing these people in jail. I think that is a horrible idea because everybody needs a second chance at life, maybe even a third chance. I think that a person who is addicted to drugs should not be sent to jail, whether its cocaine, or weed. In this article my favorite fact proved was that people with multiple arrests are more likely to be poor, unemployed, and have less than a highschool education. It may be hard for people to find a great job after being incarcerated because when your sitting in jail its nearly impossible to build a resume. When it's time to be released from prison, everything will be on your background until say 5 years are up. So now this person just did 8 years in prison for a drug r
ReplyDeleteelated crime, and in order for it not be on a background you have to wait 5 years. The system is set up for us to repeat the crime and be arrested. -Jas002
4.9 million people are incarcerated each year. It blows my mind how this number is so large. I also have a question on what percentage is actually being rehabilitated.This article then gets into the facts on who is being incarcerated as far as race goes. I really do think it needs to be added due to the fact that looking into something like this, race will forever be a factor. Following that, the article then gets into how the mental health of an individual can really take negative measures, even being incarcerated for a couple of days can affect an inmate drastically. I agree with this only because the mental health aspect of a person isn't something than can be changed just over night. Having mental health issues is something that has to be worked on and also the behaviors of these individuals. In all, the behaviors of these mental health cases is usually what ends them in jail. Incarcerating people with mental health is seen as rehabilitating this certain person, but in reality it sometimes can be seen as making somebody worse. So, when these people are then put on to the street they are repeated offenders because the incarceration has now only made them worse. Overseeing all types of incarcerating, big measures are going to be taken. We as a country, in my opinion have not really attempted reform in the criminal justice system. Which is mind blowing because time changes a lot of things in our society, so we need to mirror that as well in our criminal justice system. The fact of the matter is, we are locking individuals up who can have better opportunities as if they are being kept on the streets.I believe also we are slowly attempting to make strides but it obviously is not something that can be done overnight. -as002
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