Title: America’s Prison System is Flawed | Applied Social Psychology (ASP)
Headings: America’s Prison System is Flawed
America’s Prison System is Flawed
Content: Mass incarceration breaks up families and causes former convicts to become unemployed. This has raised the American poverty rate by 20%. ( 2017). Overall, Prisons in America are flawed in many ways. One flaw that plagues our system of punishment is racial bias. Black men are incarcerated more than white men even though they make up less of the population. Also, five times as many white people use drugs as African-Americans, but black people are imprisoned 10 times more (Lichtenberg, 2016). The third requirement of a good prison system is that similar crimes should be treated similarly, which is clearly not the case in our prisons. Colored people who commit the same crimes are not treated the same way as white people would be. Our prison system has many problems and is in desperate need of reform.