There are certainly not enough social workers for the number of people in the system, which poses problems. Due to the shortage of workers, offenders sit and receive no help while incarcerated or after release. This in turn causes a ripple effect and causes more of these people to reoffend once released because they have no resources, no money, or no one to help them deal with the differences they face. confronted. If these people receive the right help, then they are less likely to reoffend, saving money and space in prisons. The big question here is how can the next generation of social workers help solve these problems? “The social work profession has had considerable influence in shaping criminal justice policy and practice in the United States, including key participation in the development of reformatories and prisons,” says Roberts, Ivanoff , Tripodi and Gilmer (2013, p. 96). Social workers have a big impact on these prisons and sometimes on how the prisons themselves are