Criminal Justice

 The criminal justice system is somewhat responsible for why crime is so high. Why you ask? Well it is because most of all of the jails are privately owned and law enforcement is told to arrest as many people as possible to help them rich folks that own them jails keep them full. This in turn causes people to get damaging records on them that could have went through other means to prevent the damaging criminal record. What should be done is for non violent crimes the person should have to go to counseling of course paid for by the defendant, this in turn would free up jail space for more violent crimes but also help the people out in the long run. Because with a criminal record the said person would have a very hard time finding a job to support his family or even him or her self. This in turn could cause the person who committed a small crime to end up committing a larger crime out of desperation, causing kids to grow up learning that crime is the only way to survive. what we should do is offer help to small time crimes, to lead the people in the correct direction.