Criminal Justice

No matter where you stand politically or economically, it is very hard to deny the fact that we have major problems in this country. No matter how hard you try to explain things, there is no way to deny that our criminal justice system is failing, and there aren't a whole lot of people who take the time to notice. Our country is run by upper class citizens who don't know or don't care a whole lot about what is happening in the urban areas in America. We have so many issues but everyone seems to have so little time to work on fixing them. I don't think that any of these problems are easy to fix but I think that there is some big steps that we need to take before anything will get done.

First of all, we seem to be going through a time where we are having problems with our state educational budget. To make a long story short, we don't have enough money in our state economy to sufficiently fund our schools. This is where it all starts out. Getting kids in school and getting them off the streets is where everything starts. Our federal government spends $486 Billion on defense. My only problem with that is the fact that we are trying so hard to protect ourselves from an attack from the outside that maybe we aren't paying attention to what is attacking us from within. Gang violence, repeat criminals, and young children killing and stealing instead of learning how to be good citizens. I can't say that education would fix all of these problems but it is for sure a good start. Our prisons are full of criminals who will never know any better than to kill and rape. These are major problems, and I'm not trying to say that national defense isn't a major concern for us, but it just seems like we are turning our heads the other way when it comes to what is tearing apart our country on the inside.

What if we spent just a little bit of that money to help prisoners out once they have been locked up. What if we gave it to social workers and teachers so that once a criminal is in prison they can learn how to be a regular human being, rather that being taught the criminal ways of all the other inmates.