stand the cruelty he went through in the chain gang. After the escape he tried to live a normal life. The man had changed his name and began raising a family with three children. When the bounty hunters caught him, Brown had already been caught the prior year but had escaped. He seemed to have a bad habit of trying to escape his punishment. He was caught last year, but fled on bond. (Johnson 20) Those people that argue prisons are not harsh enough, do not consider how much some people suffer. Brown is hurt from asthma and high blood pressure. He also is missing a kidney after being a victim of a mugging twenty years ago and he is also sightless in one eye. His family is worried that the seventy-five year old man will die in prison. (Johnson 20) Corrections cost the United States twenty-five billion dollars a year, which gives a need for inmates to earn wages and help pay for the cost of holding them. The problem is that this may be threatening the jobs of average citizens. (Cohen 76) Even though unemployment is extremely low at this time, people worry that the prison industries will take many jobs from the uneducated and unskilled citizens. By charging inmates for prison-construction costs, the public is happy their taxes are not going to prisoners. Tax payers like the idea that we dont allow prisoners to profit from their crimes, says Attorney General Frank. (Paventi 26) Something that many people do not know is that once prisons charge inmates for a stay one year, that extra money is automatically deducted from the next budget. Some institutions are finding that it may cost them more to charge inmates for their stay. Some items that prisoners need, they have to pay for. American prisoners usually have to pay for their own toiletries, under wear, socks, cigarettes, and stationery. They also have to buy more food than what they are served just to live. (Paventi 26). Some items like the cigarettes can be extremely expensive to get in pri...
