Persuasive Essay On Prison Spending

Have you ever wondered how much prisons cost and where the money to pay for them comes from? I chose the topic of prison spending strictly because the economy is changing because of it. I have done extensive research to help me prepare for the information I will be giving to you today. Prisons are spending wat too much of the money that could go to better things including schools, new infrastructure, like roadways, and more. Today I am going to try and persuade to you that we need to reduce overall prison expenses. I will do this first by looking at the current prison expense plan and why it’s a problem to a common us citizen. Second, I will tell you how we can try and solve this problem by cutting prison expenditures. Finally I will be showing you why reducing costs will benefit everyone in the United States. I will

I looked long and hard through articles and websites and what I found was, there is no solution. Because we can’t actually cut the government costs for prisons, we at least need to find a way to help guide this problem to the right path. That path being trying to spend the money with a purpose. Right now, prisons are just throwing away money without prisoners working for it. One solution I stumbled up upon was prison jobs. There are some, but they aren’t common. What we need to do is make these jobs common in every prison and correctional facility around the country. This give prisoners not only something to do, but something to look forward to and get rewarded for. Some examples for prison jobs would be, kitchen duty, janitorial chores, laundry, sewing and or making the prison apparel or recreational chores like scooping snow off the sidewalks in the courtyard or up keeping the courtyard. Helping to be a part of this resolution will make the process go faster and we will start seeing changes in costs because we will no longer have to pay for extra help where the inmates will be