美国囚犯人数居高不下，与犯罪率高和量刑政策关系密切。自上个世纪90年代以来，美国司法部实施了更加严厉的量刑标准，更加注重法律制裁。问题是监狱里犯人太多，监狱里犯人太多。这种情况经常被认为是“犯罪难”的结果，这是为了解决日益增加的与毒品有关的犯罪问题（阿姆斯壮2001，第3-6页）。
“毒品战争”是由政治家和执法人员推动的，目的是对与毒品有关的罪犯实施更严厉的惩罚（阿姆斯壮2001，第3-6页）。因为毒品上瘾，出狱后他们不会远离毒品。2006，所有犯人的缓刑和假释总数达到700万人。其中，大约有220万人被拘留或在监狱服刑。也就是说，每三十二个成年人中就有一个囚犯。监狱人满为患是美国监狱制度的痼疾。美国拥有世界上5%的人口，但是囚犯的数量却高达全世界的25%。没有一个国家拥有如此多的公民在监狱里，在整个人类历史上（朗达迈克米伦2012，pp.看）。
由于执法严格，许多美国人在监狱里度过了很长一段时间。“毒品战争”提高了量刑水平，“量刑真实”大大降低了“提前释放”或“好时机”的可能性，这两个因素导致囚犯被关押的时间比以前长。否则，美国的犯罪率很高，囚犯的自然数量也很大。出狱后，有些犯人不能得到社会的认可，被逼到墙角，很可能再次违法，送进监狱。这将使他们在监狱里呆更长的时间。
Report 代写:量刑标准囚犯人数
This report does research on a crucial problem of the criminal justice. There are too many prisoners in the prison, which causes the problem of prison overcrowding. Today, the United States prisoners are almost six times as many as those forty years ago. Thus, the number of the prisoners in each prison is 31% more than its capacity (Diroll 2011, p.2). Under this circumstance, more and more prisons are needed in the society, which attracts more and more attention from politicians and law enforcement. In the United States, it is becoming an urgent problem to be properly solved. Not only a large number of enforcement agencies, but also a lot of academic experts try to find the appropriate solution by doing some corresponding research and analyzing the causes (Paolo Buonanno & Francesco Drago 2011, pp. 337-385). This report analyzes the main reasons of the increasing prisoners, the outcomes of this problem and available solutions to solve this solve such a tough problem.
2. Discussion issues
The number of the United States prisoners remains high has very close relations with the high rate of crime and sentencing policy. Since the 90s of the last century, the Unites States Department of Justice has implemented tougher sentencing standards and laid more emphasis on the legal punishment. The problem with this is that there are too many inmates in the prisons and each prison burdened with too many prisoners. This situation is often considered as a result of “hard on crime”, which is pushed to solve the increasing drug related crimes (Armstrong 2001, pp. 3-6).
The main reasons of prison overcrowding are:
2.1 The number of criminals held in the prison is on the rise
The “War on Drugs” was pushed by the politicians and law enforcement in order to impose the stricter punishment for the criminals related with drug (Armstrong 2001, pp. 3-6). Because the drug is addictive, they would not be far away from the drug after getting out of jail. In 2006, the number of all the prisoners, probation and parole reached a total of 7 million. Among them, there were about 2.2 million people in detention or serving in prison. That is to say, there is one prisoner among every thirty-two adults. Prison overcrowding is the chronic of the United States prison system. The United States has the world’s 5% population, but the number of prisoners is as high as 25% of the whole world. None country has held so many citizens in prison in the whole history of mankind (Rhonda McMillion 2012, pp. 63-99).
2.2 The sentences of the criminals become longer
Because of the strict law enforcement, a large number of Americans spent a very long time in prison. The “War on Drugs” improved the level of the sentence and the “Truth in sentencing” greatly reduced the possibility of “early release” or “good time”, both of which caused the prisoners to be held in prison for a longer time than before. Otherwise, the crime rate in the United States is high and the nature number of the prisoners is large. After getting out of jail, some of the prisoners cannot get the acceptance from the society and are driven into a corner so that they are likely to break the law again and sent into the prison. This will make them be held in prison for a longer time.
