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When it comes to the correction system, I feel it is unfavorable in the public's eyes due to the amount of negativity about the judicial system. When it comes to the correction system, I feel as though some people who are serving jail time don't always deserve the time they are handed, what it comes down to is being able to afford a good lawyer and being handed a lawyer that will just do the bare minimum. I strongly feel "killing" someone just to kill someone should be automatically a higher sentence than killing someone out of self defense. If you are killing, just to kill over jealously, money or anything else then you should get a higher penalty such as the death penalty and not just a mandatory life sentence in jail. When it comes to the public eyes, if somebody is killing innocent people than why does that person get to live the rest of there life even if it's in jail? When it comes to our current practices of corrections, I feel as though the practices could be better. I know just in my little hometown they're over a dozen murder crimes that are currently unsolved, whether they just happened or have happened years ago. It's easier for cops around here to find people with a small amount of marijuana then it is to fine someone who killed someone. The correction system is so overwhelmed currently, and  I don't see this system getting better. "Crime rates are approximately 20% lower today than they were in 1980" (Schmalleger & Smykla).  Most of the correction system today is filled with probation and parole as those numbers have gone up.