Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Interdisciplinary post (ID) Econimic Class

In Ms. Horne's Class, in which she teaches economics. We are reading about Corrections and the percentage of ethnicity that are put in jail. The U.S achieved the highest rate of imprisonment in the world, at the cost of $55 billion a year. 1 in 4 black men are in prison, on parole or probation, 10% stripped there right to vote. 70% of prisoners are locked up for crimes that did not involve violence.There have also been unrepresented numbers of children that are locked up, many sentenced until there adult life. Native Americans have the highest percentage  of their population in prison, Latinos and women are the fastest growing populations in the prison system. There have been new prisons which are being forced upon rural communities to revive there economies. All of these statistics is giving the U.S the highest incarceration rate in the entire world.

2 comments:

  1. All of this is crazy isn't it?! Do you think the US can consider itself a first world country with all of this going on?

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  2. I think the percentage of children being in jail until adult years is out of line, especially thinking we know some teens that are in jail now. Its ashamed what the youth goes through now.

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