final speech proposal

Final speech proposal due -- assignment is on the class blog. Discuss what topic you chose and why you are interested in it and why you think it will be interesting to your audience. 350 words

The final speech will ask you to educate your audience about a problem that is present in our world today and offer at least one viable solution. Choose a topic that you are passionate about and one that you want to share with others. 

I would like to do my final speech about why the incarceration rate in America is so high compared to other countries. This topic is important due to the fact that America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. This affects not only those who are serving time but everyone because tax payers money is being spent to keep those incarcerated. Not only the money being paid to house those who are in jail; but are those who are serving a sentence, correctly charged? A big problem being faced today is people being wrongly accused of a crime he or she may have not committed. Before someone is brought to trial,  they are being held if they are not eligible to get bonded out. This is more money being spent to hold someone that can very well be innocent, and taking away his or her freedom for a crime they might have not even committed.  

There are many problems and changes that should be made to our incarceration and court system. Writing my final paper on this topic I will discuss what changes should be made, how can the be made, and how it would be different if there changes are made.