Incarceration Argumentative Essay

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The amount of money that is going towards Incarceration has grown exponentially over the decades, while it contributes to the economic troubles of schools in America today . Just in the US there is a population count of 2.3 million prisoners locked up and over half are locked from a drug related charges. While each prisoner lives there on the people's taxes. He or she does not contribute to the world at all, we are wasting this money. If we don’t slow down the spending on incarceration, eventually our education department will run low on funds. If we let this happen to our country, our future in America doesn’t look very bright. Cutting education budget and giving it to our incarceration budget is hurting small unstable financed school. The average cost to support an inmate in a prison is forty thousand, that includes their food, blankets, and clothing. The cost to send a child from K-12 cost a total of $122,000 which is a lot more money than the amount to support a prisoner. Yet prisons are more financially stable then schools, but the cost to send …show more content…

90% of the money that pays for prisons, comes out of our taxes. So why should we America have to pay for others wrongdoing, when people out there have kids they have to support through school. Giving incarceration more money give us less money to invest in to American education. Already schools are cutting sports programs so they can afford the cost to run the school, which can be very expensive depending on the size of the school. Schools should be able to give kids opportunities that will help them figure themselves out. If schools are losing programs kids will not be able to explore their interest, which will later help them in deciding what they want to do with their lives. So we need to provide these funds so those opportunities can be given to kids in school now and in future

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