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Question

Overcrowding is a concern and obtaining more funding is a possible solution. The question become, without increasing our taxes, what would be the source of the additional funds? Explain.

The topic.

Both federal and state prisons house adult inmates who have been sentenced to imprisonment of at least one year.

An issue facing the prisons that is both current and future is overcrowding. The high number of inmates is caused by the putting of non-violent criminals responsible for petty crimes in the same prisons with the criminals convicted of felonies.

Good work here. It is important to remember that crimes happen because of a choice the individual makes. Therefore, if an individual is eventually sentenced to a prison term, it is based on the choices of the individual to commit the crime. We cannot stop individuals from making the types of choices that would result in a prison term, but we can work toward deterring future criminal choices by make the consequences to committing crimes strong enough to make the person stop and think about the consequences.

This does not always work, but it generally works for most people. Therefore, if an non-violent person is sentenced to a prison term (and eventually ends up in an environment with individuals that are convicted), then that is one of the possible consequences of the person's actions.

In dealing with the issue of overcrowding, the solution would not be to let offenders convicted of petty crimes go scot free but rather to increase the funding available to both federal and state prisons so as to have enough facilities to accommodate all criminals (Gostin et al,2007).

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