God , this brings harmful consequences . But when the aim of punishing a crime is heavily marked with personal gain and greed , this society is probably psychologically incapacitated . The current condition of state prisons where inmates are crammed into tiny prison cells allows more room for violence when an inmate strives to protect oneself from the onslaught of further invasion of privacy . A healthy society should not disregard common morals and conventions for personal gain . It is quite sickly when prisons...

40Billion industry that employs close to half a million workers . Hallinan writes that what most Americans do not know is that the United States has created ``prison millionaires ' As one prison executive he interviewed puts it , the prison industry is a growing business (Cass , 2001 , par . 7 . There is so much money in the system that the budget for prisons in some states now equals or exceeds the budget appropriated to higher or university education . Take for example , New York...

I am not talking about prescription drugs but illegal drugs such as crack cocaine . According to Hallinan , tougher drug sentencing guidelines were enacted by Congress due to the drug scare in the 1980s (Hallinan 40 . Moreover , he goes on to state that by the turn of the century there were about 140 ,000 people in federal prisons and 59 percent of federal prisoners are in prison for drug offenses (Hallinan 40 . People who sell drugs seem to choose this ``profession...