Overcrowded prisons are a problem for many reasons. It is a problem all over the world not just in one place. What can we do as a society to prevent the overcrowding of the prisons? More than million inmates sat behind bars in federal, state, and county prisons and jails around the country as of December 31, 2013. In the federal prisons, more than half of those sentenced to a stints of a year or longer are still there for drug crimes. (Flatow)

 Everyday a person is committing a crime. We cannot control anyones actions but our own. Some people have motives of why they commit crimes and other people do it because that is all they know. Regardless of what the reason may be that a person commits a crime it is still wrong and they will get caught. Some people think the...