Opportunity

 

The incarceration rate in state or federal prison or jail

for men was 1,384 per 100,000 residents,

The rate for white men was 736 per 100,000,

for black men 4,789 per 100,000,

for Hispanic men 1,862 per 100,000.

 

 

parents held in the nation's prisons at midyear

2007 were mostly male (92%).

More than 4 in 10 fathers were black,

about 3 in 10 were white,

and about 2 in 10 were Hispanic.

An estimated 1,559,200 children had a father in prison at midyear

2007; nearly half (46%) were children of black fathers.

 

Nationwide, one in every 20 black men over the age of 18 is in prison.

In five states, between one in 13 and one in 14 black men is in prison.

This compares to one in 180 white men.

 

*******ECONOMICS******

 

According to the American Corrections Association,

the average daily cost per state prison inmate per day in the US in 2005 was $67.55.

That means it costs states approximately $16,948,295 per day to imprison drug offenders,

or $6,186,127,675 per year.

The

economic benefits of new prisons may come from the flow of additional state and federal dollars.

In the decennial census, prisoners are counted where they are incarcerated,

and many federal and state funding streams are tied to census population counts.

According to the U.S. General Accounting Office (2003), the federal government distributes over $140 billion in grant money to state and local governments through formula-based grants.

Within a state, funding for community health services, road construction and repair, public housing, local law enforcement, and public libraries are all driven by population counts from the census.

"Every dollar transferred to a 'prison community' is a dollar that is not given to the home community of a prisoner,

which is often among the country's most disadvantaged urban areas. According to one account, Cook County Illinois

will lose nearly $88 million in federal benefits over the next decade because residents were counted in the 2000 Census in their county of incarceration rather than their county of origin (Duggan 2000).

Losing funds from the 'relocation' of prisoners is also an issue for New York City, as two-thirds of state prisoners are from the city, while 91 percent of prisoners are incarcerated in upstate counties (Wagner 2002a)."

According to Office of National Drug Control Policy, the

$18.822 Billion spent by the federal government on the drug war in 2002 breaks down as follows:

Treatment (with Research): $3.587 Billion (19.1% of total)

Prevention (with Research): $2.548 Billion (13.5% of total)

Domestic Law Enforcement: $9.513 Billion (50.5% of total)

Interdiction: $2.074 Billion (11.0% of total)

International: $1.098 Billion (5.8% of total)

In other words, $12.686 Billion in 2002 was directed to supply reduction, i.e. law enforcement

(67.4% of total),

and $6.136 Billion to demand reduction, i.e. treatment, prevention and education

(32.6% of total).

 

 

The gross domestic product (GDP) or gross domestic income (GDI) is one of the measures of national income and output for a given country's economy. GDP is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within the country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year). It is also considered the sum of a value added at every stage of production (the intermediate stages) of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time, and it is given a money value.

 

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,

"[T]he value of the global illicit drug market for the year

2003 was estimated at US$13 bn [billion] at the production level, at

$94 bn at the wholesale level at

US$322bn based on retail prices

 

The value, measured at retail prices,

is higher than the GDP of 88% of the countries in the world

 

equivalent to about

three quarters of Sub-Saharan Africa's combined

GDP (US$439 bn in 2003).

 

The sale of drugs, measured at wholesale prices,

was equivalent to

12% of global export of chemicals (US$794 bn),

14% of global agricultural exports (US$674 bn) and

exceeded global exports of

ores and other minerals (US$79 bn) in 2003.

 

Such sales of drugs were

also higher than the combined total licit agricultural exports

from Latin America (US$75 bn)

and the Middle East (US$10 bn) in 2003."

 

 

 

From the view of the staticstic these number show that

a lot of money is generated by this vicious cycle.

There is a lot of money invested in drug control policy

yet not a decrease incarceration rates. What is it fixing or changing

NOTHING

So as a statistic I must create my own opportunity.

because the opportunities created for me seems to be

JAIL OR DEATH

utilizing the opportunities created for me

Keeps me in a block mentality, my networking opportunity for business

is small and very limited

when I think of expansion I have to prepare myself to face incarceration,

to kill

or

be killed,

 

My Net Theory is OPPORTUNITY

With the knowledge to create this

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Design

 

my business networking opportunity expands to

But it also gives me the opportunity to become something besides a statistic

it gives me the opportunity to be a positive male role model

for the children in my life

right now I am involved in four childrens lives on a daily basis

of those four I am the only father figure in their life

they have no real interaction with there biological fathers or grandfathers

 

statistic! statistic! statistic!

 

it gives me the opportunity to experience something more than incarceration

it gives me the opportunity to show other ghetto Americans something outside of the environmental cycle

that plagues STATISTICS generation after generation