Prison reform

As long as there has been some sort of prison system in the United States, there has always been a debate as to what role these prisons should play. Are they meant to punish those those have committed crimes, or to rehabilitate prisoners into a new and productive member of society and send them on their way? Some even believe prisons to be a holding place to keep the rest of society safe. All of this leads to the constitutional issue of how those who are incarcerated should be treated and what…

reaction paper, I explain the role of maternal and how the maternal discipline is applied in women’s penal development projects. The paper represents the development of separate women 's prisons through maternal reformers. The paper explains the effect of American women 's corrective movement in Canada and how this prison system different from each other. Historically, the society was believed in the power of the penalty to change the criminal behavior and to restore the social order. Since the…

the ACCT, as the F2052SH needed to be developed in order to more effectively monitor suicide prevention. The ACCT is a plan which can be opened by a member of the prison staff, if they see them as at risk of suicide or self-harm (Prison Reform Trust, 2012). This was put in place in order to act as a care plan system which will allow prison staff to help to calm a possible suicidal act, build on a prisoners strengths and reduce their vulnerability. It also is in place to help prisoners who may…

the real events regarding the true life inside of a prison, the manner in which prisoners are treated is also clearly expressed. As I was growing up, my mother used to make me watch such types of movies in hopes of keeping me out of prison. Although I was discouraged from criminal activities, movies do not deter everyone’s behavior, and; thus, movies fail to advance the penal reform agendas. In other words, prison movies that illustrate that prison life affects a person’s well-being, they are…

Did you know the United States is home to five percent of the world’s population, with twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners and ninety percent of those prisoners being non-violent offenders? According to Us News & World Report the prison population has grown by eight hundred percent since the 1980’s while the country’s population only increased by a third. With this cancerous growth of the incarceration rate in America, the question is how far will this problem go, and how much will the…

Webster defines the word prison as a state of confinement or captivity. America houses 22 percent of the prisoners worldwide; yet, we only hold about five percent of the world’s population. These statistics are not only alarming to read, but quite frightening too. Taking into consideration, inmates costs the country almost $600 billion a year (Johnson). Several questions come to mind such as, why are these numbers so high? Why are our leaders taking minimal steps to fix these statistics?…

children who are sent to prison under harsh conditions often leave the prison with motives to commit another more dangerous crime. In 2010, 16 year-old, Kalief Browder, was sent to Riker’s Island Prison in New York City for being accused of stealing a backpack. He waited for trial in jail for three years, and two years in solitary confinement. He was later released in 2014 and committed suicide a year later (Lyons 750). Browder was one of many children who are sent to prison for crimes they…

In 1993, Jeff Mizanskey was sentenced to life in prison without parole for non-violent drug charges. He was a third time offender and with that Missouri gave him a harsh punishment. He has now served over 20 years in jail and has watched violent criminals convicted of rape, murder, and kidnapping complete their sentences and go free. Mizanskey is currently the only inmate in Missouri to be serving a life sentence for non-violent, cannabis-only crimes. This sentence seems quite over the top, even…

Prisons are what we as people use to isolate criminals from society but there is always a limit. The government is realizing that prisons are becoming overcrowded, and that there is a lack of funding for these prisons. Together as a society we view prisons as a good solution to isolate the criminals so we vote asking for more prisons, but are more prisons really the answer? Prisons are becoming overcrowded so we fund the government to make more of them, but the answer is not building more…

correctional facilities. For many reasons people suffering from all varieties of mental illnesses are put at a disadvantage before they ever even are in trouble with the law or put into jails and prisons, especially once a mentally ill person is imprisoned. In many aspects reform of mental health care in and outside of prisons could drastically decrease the unfairness of punishments and treatments they face in the legal system. Of course people with mental illness that are incarcerated…