AN Alternative to Incarceration Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. Place them in overcrowd cell-blocks, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass. This essay will analyze the current problems with our prison system such as economic and social cost. And finally it will propose a solution based on restorative justice, which is a working program for non-violent and low risk offenders. Americans literally pay a …showed first 75 words of 1696 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1696 total…work program” is the one and only solution. We did not get to where we are today from yesterday; therefore, we should not expect a solution tomorrow. Nor should we expect a single solution. This solution is viable for about 30 % of our non-violent prison population. The cost would be no more to a taxpayer than what we pay today. Ultimately the cost to society and the taxpayer would be lower than what we pay today.