With attributes like this, a life of crime is all they know.
To elevate this childhood programs are being implemented. There are numerous family resource centers that offer adult and teenage programs that promote family unity thru education. It's a choice that must be made to better ones self yet most tend to just go with what works for them.
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Courts are swamped, and prisons are overcrowded, recidivism remains high, which leads to public discontent in the judicial system. So the public is demanding harsher mandatory sentences. America has went forth with the three strikes and your out, this means if your convicted three times of any crime your sentence is harsher, in the public eye this is reducing crime. But what they don't see these criminals must be placed in our all ready overcrowded prisons. In turn we are releasing inmates who have not served there mandatory sentence and are not ready to re-enter society. The bottom line is that violent offenders belong in prison.
Stowell, G.F states that "Studies have proven that 50-80 percent of most prisoners incarcerated is in for non-violent crimes". Most are in for some sort of drug related offense. Does that mean drug treatment programs would be more human and will be a cost effective alternative? The increased number of crimes and arrest, particularly drug arrest are more than the current system of police, and prosecutors and judges can handle. According to (Florida department of law enforcement statistical analysis center) "indicates that Florida prisons only hold 1 percent of the 72,000 inmates on drug charges. 97 percent are black males at the average age of 31. Nearly most of them will remain incarcerated due to their violent criminal past. Notably all have been provided the opportunity to avoid prison through supervised sentences." (pg5).
Non violent offenders have a realistic chance for rehabilitation outside of prison. Convicted drug users need help; this is the philosophy of drug courts in Miami who have succeeded in lowering the recidivism rate.