The Modern Prison System And The American Government System

If there is one thing that makes the world run efficiently, it’s money. Having money and adequate funds, leads to power and peace, no matter the business you’re in. This is no different in the correction industry, one of the least funded areas in the American government system. For as long as America has been founded, there have been a prison system. Granted early systems were horrendous and treated criminals as less than human beings, the modern prison system isn’t perfect either. Even after hundreds of years, the American prison system is flawed. Corrections industries do not communicate with each other causing disparity in the way places are run and which programs are truly helpful in getting people back into society successfully.†¦show more content†¦The staff in corrections is so large, because there is a huge number of people in the actual prisons, an even bigger number of people on parole, and people in general needing to be protected. With more t han 2.3 million people locked up, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. 1 out of 100 American adults is behind bars, meaning that with that many people needing to be incarcerated, governments should be focused on opening new facilities and expanding instead of making across the board cuts and shutting down much needed buildings. Though the corrections industry is only one part of the entire Criminal justice system, it is argued to be one of the most important. The local, state, and the federal government spend about $74 billion dollars a year on correctional institutions, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry. In corrections, budget is being diminished at an astounding rate. Prisons are getting closed, there’s less money for necessary equipment, there are fully trained staff member losing their jobs, and lower staff/inmate ratios. Governments are doing whatever they can to save, but eventually there’s nowhere else to cut, and the s ituation becomes very dangerous for not only inmates, but for the guards there as well. With the economy being in rough shape as of late in America, money invested in corrections is lessening, whether this is more helpful or harmful to society in the long run is