In the beginning when my group and I were debating on which topic to research we made sure that it met the three criteria of interesting, relevant and researchable. As you’d guess, agreeing based on the subjective criteria of “interesting” was difficult. It took us a while to find a topic that all five of us found interesting, but we finally conceded on the topic of prison reform. Next, we had to determine if the topic of prison reform was relevant. So we researched prisons to be more informed about it, we found out that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This fact alone made our group question the efficacy of our country's prison system. The topic of prison reform was highly researchable, since there was a plethora …show more content…
When we conducted our preliminary research and looked through numerous of academic sources and journals to do determine which stance to take, either for or against supporting the funding of rehabilitation programs in American prisons initially our stance was that prison rehabilitation programs should not be funded since it isn't an appropriate place to spend taxpayer money. However, as we delved deeper into the issue we found that prison rehabilitation not just that it is good investment economically, but an investment in the future of America. This set our team back a few days, since we began writing on the opposite side of our argument but once we established our official stance, that we should allocate money to fund prison rehabilitation programs we worked effectively to make up for the lost time. We took various perspective on why rehabilitation programs would be effective; they include social, cultural, ethical, economic, historical and futuristic. The topic of prison rehabilitation involves many interrelated variables to consider; therefore, it was important to address them and show how each of them have a causal relationship with one another. We extensively researched each of these perspectives only choosing credible sources to include in our papers. This topic has numerous of opinionated blogs, which we steered clear from. For credible information, we looked at peer …show more content…
This proved to be a difficult task since we had similar evidence that we had to remove as well as indecisiveness on which order we should present our evidence. Through careful deliberation we figured out which order they should be placed in and how they should transition into each other.
Overall, working as a team was difficult yet rewarding. We were able to put together an argument that we are proud of, and offer a logical solution to solve the issue. Prisons in America falter in effective rehabilitation programs and in some prisons it is not even an option. We need to allocate tax money to pay for these programs, as not just an investment for prisoner but