Teresa Giudice: A Nonviolent Crime

There Real Housewife of New Jersey reality star Teresa Giudice sat in her cell for mail, wire, and bankruptcy fraud. Giudice husband and four daughters were in complete sadness because of Giudice’s imprisonment. Giudice crime is considered a nonviolent crime. A nonviolent crime is a crime in which there was no threat or harm to a victim. Examples of nonviolent crimes includes fraud, arson, prostitution, bribery, theft, etc. In 1998 it was found that there are over one million people in jail who were convicted of a non-violent crime (Justice Policy Institute, 1998). These nonviolent criminals that are imprisoned for nonviolent crimes pose no threat to a human being, leave pain and sadness within their families, and costs the United States

Many children, husbands, wives, parents, and other family members are left with pain. Children are with one parent which causes many issues the one parent such as stress, economically means, and not having their partner to rely on. In the case of Teresa Giudice, her four daughters and husband were given a three episode special reality show about their everyday lives without Teresa. In this special, it is seen how stressed Teresa’s husband was by his body language and his emotions. The show also showed how the four girls were in complete sadness, crying, and asking when their mother will be home. Many families are left like the Giudice family just because one of their family members sentencing to a nonviolent

When someone is imprisoned the United States usually cover their cost including food, healthcare, staffing, programs, and many other things depending on the prison. According to The Crime Report, “ In 2010 it cost more than $31,000 to keep someone in prison for a year, the study also found a wide range in the cost of imprisonment: from $14,603 per inmate in Kentucky to $60,076 in New York”( The Crime Report, 2012). According to the Prison Policy Initiative there 51,000 imprisoned in state prisons for theft in 2016 (Prison Policy Initiative, 2016). Since theft is considered a nonviolent crimes if you multiply the cost of having someone in prison for a year to the number of inmates this year imprisoned for theft you would get $ 1,581,000,000. This is just the cost of criminals who have been imprisoned theft which would mean that there are millions or even billions of dollars more going into having nonviolent criminals