Give an outline of the various views on imprisonment presented in the three texts
In text 1 we face the author Carol A. Brook who is frustrated about George do not get the possibility to see his wife in her final days. She does not think that mandatory minimum sentences should exist. She uses argument such as the mandatory minimum sentences take away the judge’s opportunity to involve the discretion, history and characteristics of the defendant. She also refers to studies saying that lengthy sentences make the convicted more likely to return to criminality, when he comes back from prison. Besides of that she also says that the mandatory minimums only exacerbate existing racial disparities because they judge the Afro-American and Hispanics part of being criminals.
In text 2 to we face the prisoner named Michael Santos, who is convinced if you show good behaviour for a long time, and built records in the prison that demonstrates your commitment to live as law-abiding citizen in the prison, you are allowed to get released before promised, because the economic part of the society need you to come back on the labour marked. In the authors opinion it is not safer for the society, if a prisoner serves 9,000 days instead of 8,000 days. He uses the argument that the law-abiding citizens pay too much tax for the prisoners to be in prison, if they are nonviolent, then it will waste a lot of money, which is being verified through his statement ‘’If taxpayers insist on spending more than $50,000 or more to ensure that I serve every day of my sentence, then so be it’’ After analysing the text we can conclude that from his point of view it is a waste of money to let prisoners be imprisoned for so many years, when they develop mentally, and exhibit good behaviour.
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