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This 4 page paper discusses the 2006 budget of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, and what taxpayers are getting for their money. It also considers what they should be getting, and how the corrections system should be run. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to learn a lesson from their mistakes and return to society as useful citizens. However, the American prison system gives the lie to this comfortable fiction-one look at a so-called
"supermax" prison, such as the high-tech monstrosity at Pelican Bay, California, shows that in reality, Americans are vengeful and prisons are about retribution, not rehabilitation and education. However, things seem
somewhat different in Arkansas, and this paper discusses what the Arkansas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to do with the $243 million in their 2006 budget. Discussion As noted,
over the years the prison industry seems to have given up the idea of rehabilitation and settled instead for punishment. In addition, the passage of numerous "three strikes laws" have
swollen the prison population to the extent that the United States has built 20 new federal prisons (Pelaez, 2005). In addition, these "three strikes" laws have resulted in some aberrant
and disturbing sentences; perhaps the worst is the case of a prisoner "who for stealing a car and two bicycles received three 25-year sentences" (Pelaez, 2005). The U.S. has
approximately two million people incarcerated in federal, state and private prisons around the country; California Prison Focus says "no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its
own citizens" (Pelaez, 2005). The U.S. has more of its citizens locked up than any other country on earth (Pelaez, 2005). There is a disturbing trend in more ways that
one: not only do people receive unfair sentences for minor crimes, the prisoners are being used increasingly as an underpaid or even free workforce (Pelaez, 2005). Prisoners are being used
to make everything from military equipment to appliances to airplane parts; sometimes they earn minimum wage; but some prisoners in Colorado earn about $2/hour; in private prisons, they may earn
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