http://www.caribjournal.com/2013/09/07/the-caribbeans-incarceration-problem/

Hey, everyone. I'm doing a research paper on the Carribean and prison systems, and I'd like your help. I can read all the scholarly papers I want but I want the opinions of people with firsthand knowledge and experience.

A study just came out about the top incarceration rates around the globe and the U.S came in first with the top amount of people incarcerated per 100,000 people. St. Kitts and Nevis came in second. Out of the top 50 places with the highest iincarceration rates, 10 of them are located in the Carribean: Why is that?


I want to focus particularly on St. Kitts and its relationship to the U.S and how that has affected the high incarceration rates, but I also want to talk about how prison is viewed in the Carribean as a whole. Here are some questions to get a conversation going:

Do you know anyone who has been incarcerated in the carribean? How has this affected you and this person?

How are police viewed? Are they generally well looked upon? Or are they viewed as unhelpful and distrustful?

In what ways do you think foreign relations have influenced law- making and the penal system?

Why do you think the incarceration rate seems so high in the camibean compared to other regions? Or do you think the study got it wrong and the data is being exaggerated?

Nothing stated in this forum will be used in the paper without permission of the poster and I just want opinions to give me an idea of the various views people of the Carribean.