Why must we fix our prisons

So far the United States has the largest incarceration rate of the world. Jim Webb the author of this article focuses on the views from Japanese prisons to prisons of our own. It is severely different with an almost five times the world average incarcerated. Although they are prisoners the United States has to look at making shorter sentences or none at all.

The United States is not only overpopulated but it's over incarcerated, and needs to be fixed. With the percentage of the population rising year by year the incarceration population is only going to get larger. The only thing to do is change sentencing and laws to keep U.S. citizens a little bit more on the rather aware side of what always could happen.

This article should be taken seriously; at a stand point my father works at a prison. Lebanon Corrections Institution has an over population. The prisoners out populated the correction officers 5 to 1. This is bad and scary, not only is their more prisoners than correction officers threes a serious threat of them being able to control the prison. Overpopulation does need to stop and needs to be fixed. We need to take action now before it’s to late.