SOC309Y1 Chapter Notes -Mass Incarceration, Opportunity Cost, Psychoactive Drug
Document Summary
Montana has one of the fastest-growing prison populations in the us. 57% of federal incarcerations were for drug offenses. Incarcerations are not only driving the growth of prison systems, but creating a virtual infection pump of hiv into the general population. Most drug-related convictions target dealers, but many first-time and petty users are sentenced because they finance their drug use with small-time dealing. Revolving-door prisoners on short stays with frequent returns. These two kinds of prisoners have high rates of hiv infection. And either do not know or do not tell when they return to their old habits and partners on the outside. Prison aids rates are six times higher than on the outside. Some were infected hiv within the prison system itself. Hiv is spread to other uninfected inmates by drug use, sex for money, and rapes, which continue on the inside.
