Prison Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Modest Proposal on Overpopulating Prisons.

Prison Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Modest Proposal on Overpopulating Prisons.
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Modest Proposal on Overpopulating Prisons

Summary: Essay presents a modest proposal about the overpopulation of prisons.
For preventing the over crowded jails in the United States from being a drain on our society, and also to prevent the delinquents from being a burden in society.

To put away prisoners in our jails, the taxpayers are the ones picking-up the tabs for the jail services we offer, such as bed, plumbing, food, showers, etc. Instead of keeping the prisoners locked up doing nothing for society, we can make them useful by sending them to war, saving the lives of law abiding Americans, and shrinking the size of the jails at the same time.

Suppose that today we have about one million people in the jail system, about two out of ten of the inmates are either lifers, or on death row. So about two hundred thousand of these occupants will be useless for years. This number will grow because each year our jails bring in...

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