Thesis: More Should Be Done To Reform The United States Prison System

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luxuries to criminals that many citizens can’t
afford

III. EARLY RELEASE

A. Overcrowding
B. Repeat appeals
1. death-row cases take up to 20 years to finish
2. since 1976, 50 death-row inmates have been released
C. Juvenile punishment
1. Craig Price, a four-time killer
a) released after four years
b) criminal record sealed
c) father of victims’ quote

More should be done to reform the United States Prison System. Prisoners are taking advantage of the system to file frivolous lawsuits as revenge against society and also are being awarded luxuries many law-abiding citizens can't afford, all at the expense of taxpayers. Many prisoners are also being released early due to prison overcrowding, appeals made by prisoners and juvenile crime laws. There are many available options for dealing with these problems and more effort should be put into applying those options to our prison systems.
The prison system of the Unites States allows criminals to ...

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"not only for the courts and government lawyers charged with defending these cases but for legitimate private litigants who are seeing their cases delayed because the courts are inundated with these suits." It is estimated that the total taxpayer burden is probably more than $200 million a year. (Van Atta, 67) "The ease with which lawsuits are filed has made our system 'all gas pedal and no brake,'" notes Walter Olson, author of The Litigation Explosion. (Van Atta, 68)
Another problem with the U.S. Prison System is the idea that prisoners should be entitled to luxuries that many common law-abiding citizens can't afford.
One of the items available to inmates is weight-lifting ...

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