Social Justice Argument Essay

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Abstract
Examining the injustices of the age of mass incarceration, this essay finds that these are deeply tied to the War on Drugs that emerged during the Reagan Administration. From mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes all the way to the emergence of private prisons, the essay finds that the contemporary criminal justice system is replete with examples of disproportionate punishment, and ineffective rehabilitation. With the cycle of imprisonment having taken on a pernicious dynamic because of simultaneous ideological and business-related components, the essay notes that alternatives to imprisonment like the restorative justice paradigm could dramatically improve the justice of the current penal system. This said, moral hazard and politics point to a context in which it is unlikely that systemic reform of the criminal justice system will emerge in any near future.