I never want to go to jail

Jail is a terrible place to end up; especially more than once. But that's how our prison system usually works. Instead of assisting inmates to turn their life around, our jails are just making more criminals. The implementation of strict drug laws got the ball rolling for overpopulated and underfunded jails. Are these laws really fair? We discussed in class that the laws for crack cocaine are much much stricter than powder cocaine. The answer is obvious; crack is much more deadly that powder. But if you look deeper, crack is cheaper and powder is considered the "rich man's" cocaine. So it turn, the government's laws are putting poor people in jail because they can't afford powder cocaine. The real cynics argue that it's all a conspiracy to put urban minorities in jail. Regardless, jail is a horrible place to be and our system really needs to be fixed up.