GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

Modern day America’s prison systems have been an embarrassment and a disgrace against the ideas of the founding fathers and what the red, white, and blue symbolizes. Everyday large groups of individuals are stripped of their natural rights, thrown into jail, deprived of their possessions, humiliated in public, and exposed to violence. It was once said you are innocent until proven guilty but the times along with the laws have changed, every individual is now guilty until proven innocent. Police officers abuse their law enforcement status for self-beneficent. Police officers capture the innocent non-violent law abider and throw them in a violent environment. Humiliated behind bars as a zoo animal only forces humans to lose respect towards law enforcement and forced to rebel and make them hardened individuals. The current structure of the American penal system is failing to uphold its original reason. Our prison system is no longer effective the government has fell to extreme lows because they cannot arrest robbers, murders, and rapists they begin to seek below the surface and arrest people for race, creed, religion, and other miscellaneous factors. Every American pay extreme amounts of money for the prison system to fail. They are expensive and produce an environment that is devastating to its residents. Even after most residents are released they return to damage the communities and our hard earn tax dollars are wasted towards this “effective” system. The government should have restitution programs that offer a prison resident a chance to restore his name and undertake a positive change of character. Nothing can destroy a man more than living without a purpose in life. Removing nonviolent offenders from prison and putting them into a restitution program would eliminate overcrowding and violence that tax-payers work so hard for. The atrocities behind bars are well known to everybody but for prisoners those atrocities become natural to living. Prison residents lose values during their imprisonment because they are surrounded in a violent, dangerous, and self-defeating environment. When they leave prison they are worse then they were before placed in jail. As Americans we are guilty until proven innocent prison was intended to lock and restrict humans their natural rights.