Have you ever thought of what prisons will be like in the future? The technology will be different and the ways of rehabilitating the criminals will be better. Technology is advancing so rapidly it is hard for prisons to keep up with it. No one can know exactly what prisons will be like in the future, but everyone hopes it will work better.

The first prison in the United States was the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Most of the first prisons weren't made to punish criminals, they were made to hold criminals until punishment. Prisons were labor camps. This worked and made the criminals ready to return to society, but it people claimed it was unconstitutional so then prisons were made for isolating the criminal from the outside world. Now were are still at the act of isolation where the criminal is locked in a room not able to interact with society. (Grolier 1997)

When it comes to prisons, technology is never-ending. Technology in prisons advances very rapidly. New products are constantly being released to make better ways to rehabilitate people so they may be released back into society. Technology is tested in test prisons throughout the country. Com

panies put their technology into prisons to test if it helps to rehabilitate people. Technology is advancing so rapidly that it is hard for prisons to keep up with it. (Prison Reform 1)

Some things will change in prisons and some things will not change. One thing that will definitely change is the technology used in prisons. That constantly changes and will probably never stop changing. Rehabilitation will be better so criminals can be released back into society and live a life free of crime. New ways will be discovered so prison time can be shortened but still produce the same effect it would in rehabilitation if the prison time was longer. Hopefully our world will become free of crime, but until then we will still have prisons to treat criminals so they may be released back into society.

The McHenry County jail holds two hundred twenty one inmates. The jail rents out fifty beds to other counties. McHenry County gets fifty five dollars a day for each bed it rents to other counties and fifty dollars for each bed it rents to the federal buarrou. Double bunking the inmates increases the capacity of the McHenry County jail to three hundred. The extra one hundred and twenty thousand dollars the county gets a year goes towards police cars. McHenry County jail makes a lot of money for renting beds and puts it towards needed funds. (Stockman 12)

In 1997 alone, 7,400 youths were sent to adult facilities. That's seven out of every ten who are convicted. The number of criminals under the age of eight teen has more than doubled from 1985 to 1997. Thirty-seven percent of juveniles were jailed for robbery. Thirteen were jailed for assault. ( Number of youths in prisons doubled since 1985 4) Man

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