What is meant by "Social Rehabilitation"? The word,"Social",denotes and cannotes many things,while the meaning of "Rehabilitation" is fairly restrictive. However, for our purpose, let us restrictively define both.
Within this contect, "Social" means, "of or pertaining to the life and relation of human beings in a
community", and Rehabilitation" means, "to re-establish in good repute or accepted respectability, as a person or the character, name, ect., after disrepute."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Commissioner Beard speaks out for the first time about allegations
Since the mid 1980s, the United States has undertaken aggressive law enforcement strategies and criminal justice policies aimed at curtailing drug abuse. The cost and benefits of this national war on drugs are fiercely debated, What is not debatable, however, is its impact on black Americans. Ostensibly color blind, the war on drugs has been waged disproportionately against black Americans. Research shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data detailed in reports show clearly that racial disparity bears scant relationship to racial differences in drug offending. There are, for example, five times more white drug users than black. Relative to population, blacks men are admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than that of white men. In large part because of extraordinary racial disparities in incarceration for drug offenses, blacks are incarcerated for all offenses at 8.2 times the rat of whites. One in every 20 black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men. Shocking as such national statistic are, they mask even worse racial disparities in individual states. In seven states, for example, blacks constitute between 80 and 90 percent of all drug offenders sent to prison. In at least fifteen states, black men are admitted to prison on drug charges at rates that are from 20 to 57 times greater than those of white men. These racial disparities in drug offenders in drug offenders admitted to prison show the racial balance of state prison population. In two states, one in every 13 black men is in prison. In seven states, blacks are incarcerated at more than 13 times the rate of whites. The imprisonment of blacks offenses is part of a crisis of over incarceration in the United States. Although prison should be used as a last resort to protect society from violent or dangerous individuals, more people are sent to prison in the United States for nonviolent drug offenses than for crimes of violence. Throughout the 1990s, more than one hundred thousand drug offenders were sent to prison annually. More than 1.5 million prison admissions on drug charges have occurred since 1980. The rate at which drug offenders are incarcerated has increased nine fold. According to retired General Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the nation's war on drugs has propelled the creation of vast "drug gulag." Drug control policies bear primary responsibility for the quadrupling of the national prison population since 1980 and a soaring incarceration rate, the highest among western democracies.
Since the mid 1980s, the United States has undertaken aggressive law enforcement strategies and criminal justice policies aimed at curtailing drug abuse. The cost and benefits of this national war on drugs are fiercely debated, What is not debatable, however, is its impact on black Americans. Ostensibly color blind, the war on drugs has been waged disproportionately against black Americans.
ReplyDeleteResearch shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data detailed in reports show clearly that racial disparity bears scant relationship to racial differences in drug offending. There are, for example, five times more white drug users than black. Relative to population, blacks men are admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than that of white men. In large part because of extraordinary racial disparities in incarceration for drug offenses, blacks are incarcerated for all offenses at 8.2 times the rat of whites. One in every 20 black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men.
Shocking as such national statistic are, they mask even worse racial disparities in individual states. In seven states, for example, blacks constitute between 80 and 90 percent of all drug offenders sent to prison. In at least fifteen states, black men are admitted to prison on drug charges at rates that are from 20 to 57 times greater than those of white men. These racial disparities in drug offenders in drug offenders admitted to prison show the racial balance of state prison population. In two states, one in every 13 black men is in prison. In seven states, blacks are incarcerated at more than 13 times the rate of whites.
The imprisonment of blacks offenses is part of a crisis of over incarceration in the United States. Although prison should be used as a last resort to protect society from violent or dangerous individuals, more people are sent to prison in the United States for nonviolent drug offenses than for crimes of violence. Throughout the 1990s, more than one hundred thousand drug offenders were sent to prison annually. More than 1.5 million prison admissions on drug charges have occurred since 1980. The rate at which drug offenders are incarcerated has increased nine fold. According to retired General Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the nation's war on drugs has propelled the creation of vast "drug gulag." Drug control policies bear primary responsibility for the quadrupling of the national prison population since 1980 and a soaring incarceration rate, the highest among western democracies.