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An Alternative for Prison

An Alternative for Prison

America's prisons have been called "graduate schools for crime." It 
stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and 
privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their 
cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered 
underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to 
it. 
Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They 
take the nonviolent offender and make him a hardened killer. America has 
to wake up and realize that the current structure of our penal system is 
failing terribly. The government has to devise new ways to punish the 
guilty, and still manage to keep American citizens satisfied that our 
prison system is still effective. 
Americans pay a great deal for prisons to fail so badly. Like all big 
government solutions, they are expensive. In the course of my studies 
dealing with the criminal justice system, I have learned that the 
government spends approximately eighty-thousand dollars to build one cell, 
and $28,000 per year to keep a prisoner locked up. That's about the same 
as the cost of sending a student to Harvard. Because of overcrowding, it 
is estimated that more than

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