Super Max Prisons

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Miscellaneous

 

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Lillian K

 

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January 28, 2015

 

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University

 

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Economic considerations are one reason, supermaxes typically cost two or three times more to build and operate than traditional maximum security prisons. A perhaps bigger reason lies in the criticism by some that supermax confinement is unconstitutional and inhumane. While proponents and opponents of supermax prisons debate such issues, a fundamental set of questions has gone largely unexamined: What exactly are the goals of supermax prisons? How, if at all, are these goals achieved? And what are their unintended impacts?, For 20 years the population in prisons in the united states have grown 700%, although seeing that our population has increased only 20% and the crime rate has decreased...
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with a population of more than 2 million, the united states incarcerate more people per capital than any other country that publishes statistics on prisons, even Russia. California alone has built 20 more prisons since 1980, with other states and the Federal government following suit. Why are so many people in prison? In an atmosphere of fear, economic difficulties, and persistent racial divisions, prisons have become a popular "solution" to social ills...
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