Prisoners' Lives after Incarceration

According to NC Aizenman of the Washington Post, "More than two out of over 100 adults in the United States are in prison or prison, this highest level of history will cost the state government close to $ 50 billion a year, while the federal government I will spend more than $ 5 billion dollars. "(Eisenman) However, as a US citizen, we will consider how imprisonment affects people who have been released to society. Many of the previous prisoners face serious conditions such as searching for productive jobs when they are released, building houses, reconnecting with friends and family.

Federal criminals are imprisoned in prisons managed by the Federal Prison Bureau within the Ministry of Justice. These prisons are spreading throughout the United States; defendants convicted in the federal court may be accommodated in any federal prison. However, less than 10% of US prisoners are accommodated in federal prisons. Most criminal justice activities are under the auspices of state and local governments. Law enforcement at the state level is largely distributed in counties, cities, and towns. State police are exercising power over major national roads and illegal rural areas. They usually restrict other functions, such as maintaining a criminal record. Unlike the US Attorney General, state attorneys usually have little or no authority of the prosecutor, but they may be in charge of defense of criminal appeal and petition for petition after being convicted. The prosecution is a function of the county.

The United States is the country with the highest holding rate in the world. In 2011, there were more than 1.5 million prisoners in state and federal prisons. There is recent evidence that the US prison population is beginning to decline after the rapid rise in the past 30 years and the peak in 2009 and the population in 2011 (1,598,780 people) is approaching 2005 (Carson & Sabol , 2012). Still, the problem still exists. According to the monthly update data of the London International Prison Research Center (ICPS) (2013) as of the end of January 2013, the US imprisonment rate was 716 per 100 thousand inhabitants. Although prisons are the focus of these data, ICPS also includes people (eg, detainee inmates) who are being held in jail for their calculation. ICPS data are cited here and are listed in Figures 1, 2 and 3 to provide an international context and can not be obtained unless prisoners are detained