User talk:Skeedoh/United States incarceration rate

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To start off with, I believe this author did a great job adding to the chosen article. The lead has not been updated however, I'm sure the author will do so soon. I found that the content added to the United state incarceration rate article was very well done and provides the reader with useful statistics. The majority of sources used are up to date and the information is both reliable and verifiable. I felt that all information added to the article helped to paint a more complete picture. My only critique would be to look over the wording of the last paragraph added. It looks like it could be made more concise. Mayor1704 (talk) 07:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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"This has resulted in distrust from Black individuals towards aspects of the legal system such as police, courts, and heavy sentences. In 2011, more than 580,000 Black men and women were in state or federal prison. Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups, with the highest rate being Black men aged 25 to 39. In 2001, almost 17% of Black men had previously been imprisoned in comparison to 2.6% of White men. By the end of 2002, of the two million inmates of the U.S. incarceration system, Black men surpassed the number of White men (586,700 to 436,800 respectively of inmates with sentences more than one year)"

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The findings indicated that the presence of a criminal record reduced callbacks by approximately 50%. Hispanic women with a prison record fared most favorably in receiving a phone call back from potential employers, while African American women had modest results, with white women receiving the poorest results, obtaining the lowest probability of receiving a phone call from a potential employer.

'''Unemployment rates impacted the body of African Americans that would take up prisons. The young African Americans who have found themselves as unemployed are found to be incarcerated as a result of drug usage. The usage of these drugs can be attributed to the few social programs young African Americans were aided with upon ending up without a job. As a result, the amount of crime and drug usage among young African Americans would cause an increase in incarceration rates.'''

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According to the Justice Expenditures and Employment in the United States, 2017 report release by BJS, it is estimated that county and municipal governments spent roughly US$30 billion (add a space) on corrections in 2017.

The practice of imposing longer prison sentences on repeat offenders is common in many countries but the three-strikes laws in the U.S. with mandatory 25 year imprisonment — implemented in many states in the 1990s — are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which mandate state courts to impose harsher sentences on habitual offenders who are previously convicted of two prior serious criminal offenses and then commit a third.[citation needed]

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The "War on Drugs" is a policy that was initiated by Richard Nixon with the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and vigorously pursued by Ronald Reagan.

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The Brookings Institution reconciles the differences between Alexander and Pfaff by explaining two ways to look at the prison population as it relates to drug crimes, concluding "The picture is clear: Drug crimes have been the predominant reason for new admissions into state and federal prisons in recent decades" and "rolling back the war on drugs would not, as Pfaff and Urban Institute scholars maintain, totally solve the problem of mass incarceration, but it could help a great deal, by reducing exposure to prison."

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Roberts argues that the criminal justice system's creation of new crimes has a direct effect on the number of women, especially black women, who then become incarcerated.[citation needed]

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These immigrants were targeted with anti-Asian sentiment, as many voters believed they were losing jobs to Asian immigrants.[citation needed]

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In a 2011 report by the ACLU, it is claimed that the rise of the for-profit prison industry is a "major contributor" to "mass incarceration," along with bloated state budgets.

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...which seeks to expand the privatization of corrections and lobbies for policies that would increase incarceration, such as three-strike laws and "truth-in-sentencing" legislation.

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The industry is well aware of what reduced crime rates could mean to their bottom line. This from the CCA's SEC report in 2010:"Our growth … depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates … [R]eductions in crime rates … could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities."(Quotations needed here)

While crime decreased by 8% between 1992 and 2002, news reports on crime increased by 800% and the average prison sentence length increased by 2,000% for all crimes.[citation needed] Less media coverage means a greater chance of a lighter sentence or that the defendant may avoid prison time entirely.

(Citation needed) Acw115 (talk) 04:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)