violations and other minor scrapes with the law. Apparently the American public has decided

by popular vote that incarceration is the cure all for our countries complex crime problems.

However, now we are facing prison overcrowding like never before in the history of The

United States. I believe we need to look at these problems closer and analyze them in a

more rational sense. I do not believe that incarceration is the answer to all our problems

when it comes the criminals in our society. We are wasting billions of dollars on new

prisons all across the nation. Is it time we look to alternatives to the "lock em up and

throw away the key" attitude that plagues middle class America? I sincerely believe so.

No one really knows the true reasons why crime occurs. The oldest theory, based on theology

and ethics, is that people who commit to crimes are perverse, and do it deliberately, or

because the devil made them do it. Although that idea has long since been discarded by

modern criminologists, it persists among uninformed people and provides the r

children. We can try to teach our children that drugs are bad, and we can keep throwing

responsible. We elect these great men and women to oversee the safety of our United States,

again left with idle time. Now we shall have a glance at the current prison situation.

with nothing but a bible. If caught communicating in any way, they were punished severely.

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