Social Justice

I am passionate about a lot of issues.

One of which doesn't get spoken about often.

The Prison systems in the United States.

This was first brought to my attention by a woman on youtube called Jessica Kent. After getting out of prison she started her channel and spoke about the good and bad of prison.

Going to prison should be the punishment, that is how it is supposed to be.

Instead prisoners are not being given all of their basic human rights (They are not given proper medical care and they are not given proper nutrition). They are sexually assaulted. They are treated as less than human. They are put in situations that would drive almost any human being insane (Solitary Confinement) for as little as having contraband (Phones, Tampons, etc).

Prison bathrooms are not sanitary. If you drop a bar of soap on the ground, it is gone, don't even pick it up. How gross does a bathroom have to be in order to make soap unusable?

The prison system also does not do enough to help keep people from getting rearrested. 51% of drug, 50% of public order, 45% of property, and 25% of violent crime are rearrested after release.

Prisoners come out of prison with PTSD (I am not sure which type).

Other points that I didn't think fit well.

One in five people in prison are locked up for drug offences. Drug use, in some places, is considered an illness. Many Correctional officers know this and try to sell inmates drugs (which, as you can probably guess, is contraband) this makes stay sober, or getting sober, in prison very difficult.