³The U.S. prison population has tripled since 1980 so that on any given day there are 1.5 million Americans behind bars.² (Alternatives 1). There is a clear overcrowding problem in todays prisons. Why? I believe that the population explosion in the prison system is due to the increasing moral decline of America. Prisons should keep dangerous criminals off the streets and keep others from committing a crime. (Prisons 1) One would think that being locked up is to be feared. But in todayıs society, criminals simply do not care. ³Incarceration is not effective in crime reduction² (Alternatives 1).
But what can be done to fix this ever growing epidemic? More prisons can always be
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