What explains the rapid rise in incarceration rates that has occurred throughout the U.S. during the last two decades? Do you feel such an increase is justified by the change in crime rates that has taken place? The rise came from legislatures passing laws for offenders with multiple convictions and changing some drug laws. Drug [...]
One of my main contentions as the negative for the current lincoln douglas resolution which is. Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not criminal justice. Any sourced figures or statistics or research that any one could provide would be of great help! I could run [...]
Why the US still continues to use incarceration as a viable punishment even when it has been proven that other less punitive approaches can be less costly, more rehabilitative and crime preventative. Please make it long! thank you Because the US is a veeeery conservative country and nation and loves to keep the old ways [...]
Do you think the massive incarceration of drug users and small time dealers is the best route for fighting the war on drugs? Why or why not? What do you think is the best method for controlling drug use in America? Is it even possible to win the war on drugs? Why or why not? [...]
I need an answer for a report im doing on, so much needed help on that. Can’t speak to the cost of incarceration, but I can speak to the cost of community service. Volunteers are not free. They don’t get paid, true. But to involve them costs staff time to: – screen the volunteers (review [...]
Thanks! You can file one with the Federal court and one with the superior court of county. The two courts are loosely linked as administrative agencies, though. They just don’t want the average Citizen to know the relationship. As such is our federal court system. It is likely they will assign a case number as [...]
My brother is currently in jail for repetitive offenses from possession of Marijuana. Anyway i’m deeply curious, will he and all the people that were put in jail for weed be released and get fully refunded from the offense charges if Proposition 19 gets passed this year? With passage of legislation like Prop 19 it [...]
Are these high costs to taxpayers unsustainable, especially during these tough economic times? Slick- Build them, they will come. way beyond. All they can do is stuff the current jails and prisons beyond capacity and wait for nw prisons to be built. Something has to change
Our justice system is f*cked up. oops. highest was listed twice…oh well. If we go ahead and legalize marijuana, do you think the #’s would go down? The war on Drugs, That’s why. We arrest 900,000 people just for marijuana possession, Its a disgrace
What if they also used up almost all the welfare despite only being 16% of the population? Wouldn’t dislike of this group be justified? Are you picking on poor red staters again? Who gets welfare? Despite prevailing stereotype, whites, not blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n2_v48/ai_12970819/ Blue states support red states: http://democraticactionteam.org/redstatesocialism/index.html [...]
