By continuing to focus spending on corrections rather than early childhood education, there would be more money to increase the number offenders on probation and parole. Community corrections could focus on expanding their programs to reduce recidivism rates.By shifting the spending to early childhood education, schools could focus on keeping kids in school. They would also have the money for more after school programs to help develop the youths into contributing members of society when the reach adulthood rather than ending up incarcerated. Discuss

By continuing to focus spending on corrections rather than early childhood education, there would be more money to increase the number offenders on probation and parole. Community corrections could focus on expanding their programs to reduce recidivism rates.By shifting the spending to early childhood education, schools could focus on keeping kids in school. They would also have the money for more after school programs to help develop the youths into contributing members of society when the reach adulthood rather than ending up incarcerated. When you look at all the rate that our nation\’s prison population has grown, I believe that spending needs to be shifted to the children’s education. This could help to reduce the amount that will end up incarcerated in the future. I also believe that states need to decriminalize certain offense as Mitchell and Leachman mentioned in their report. (Mitchell, M., Leachman, M., 2014) The length of sentences for non-violent offenders needs to be looked at also, these sentences could be reduced and more placed in community supervision instead. This would increase the cost of community corrections, but it would still be cheaper than housing an offender and providing 24-hour supervision. As you can probably tell by now I for focusing more spending on the children rather than on corrections. I feel the better chance we give them could be the best way to effect incarceration rates