Prison reform

As a result between the years of 1980 to July 1989 about 1109 people had been hanged. By the end of July 1989 about 283 prisoners were held on death row at Pretoria Central Prison. The then minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee, stated that 43,5% of inmates on death row was overcrowded. The S v Makwanyane case is a very important case when it comes to the topic of the death penalty. In this case Makwanyane was sentenced to death…

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling. Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer. New York: The New Press, 2013. 111pp. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world; 2.3 million inmates which equals a rate of 730 inmates to every 100,000 citizens. As Marc Mauer explains our correctional system began with the premise of rehabilitation but has now evolved into a retributive system. Race to Incarcerate A graphic retelling was the collaborative effort of Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer.…

Juveniles being sentenced in adult court is becoming more of a common issue in today’s society with such crimes as murder being committed by the youth. This has lead people to believe that they should be sentenced in adult court, in order to scare or prevent the juvenile form attempting to commit the crime again. Sentencing juveniles to adult court does not justify a reason for them committing the crime again or violent acts. Juveniles differ from adults, in the way that they are not developed…

Over the course of time, laws and policies have been changed to conveniently to ensure it is easier for police to search and arrest African Americans. Initially, police could only search citizens with a search warrant and probable cause. However, it has become normal for people, especially those of color to be search without either. When these searches are conducted they are labeled safety searches (or what they 're most commonly referred as, "stop and frisk") and are allegedly conducted in the…

2016; Berg & Cobbina, 2016; Davis et al., 2012). Davis et al. (2012) reported that among prison inmates in the United States, 73 percent used drugs regularly prior to their incarceration. Research suggests that despite the severity of drug abuse, only a few inmates will receive intensive substance abuse treatment while incarcerated (Ray et al., 2015). For example, Bender et al. (2016) argued that 45% of state prisons and 68% of…

Furthermore, rather than letting prisoners to stay in the incarceration for doing nothing whole day, it is better to let them access to education. In Cal Poly State University, there has a project called Prison Education Project (PEP). This project is formed by the Office of Correctional Education (OCE), the California Institution for Men (CIM) teamed, and Professor Renford Reese on November, 2011. PEP offers education opportunities in 11 California correctional…

problem of drug use. At the same time, considering the factor of one 's socioeconomic status as a contributor to incarceration for drug use. Effective change is needed to reduce the expanding rates of incarceration in the United States through the legal reform of punishments for nonviolent drug crimes, increasing funding…

of male offenders (Clear et al, 2016). Even though women offenders have committed crimes that do justify sentencing, their position within a family setting should needs to be taken into consideration. With the incarceration rate of women rising, prisons are not equipped to properly deal with specific issues the female gender may face involving pregnancy, sexual harassment against women while they are incarcerated, etc. (Film Media Group,…

prospect of commiting future crimes must not be disregarded .Ex- Offenders should be socially integrated and be in a situation to redress and repair themselves to the state their were originally in. However rehabilitating process is testing due to the prison culture and environment. A survey in England and Wales revealed that over a…

of each source on a six-point scale, I give this article a 32. For the author category, I give the article a six. One of the two authors, Saunders, is a professor who also published works on topics including poverty, social inequality, and welfare reform while he was the Director of Social Policy Programmes at The Centre for Independent Studies (Saunders). Not much is known about the second author, Billante, except that she is a Research Assistant at The Centre for Independent Studies and has…