rison’s Flaws:
Prisons are an old institution going as far back as even ancient Greece but is really helping society? It seems like on the news, every time someone gets arrested they’re being reincarcerated, it seems that prison really aren’t reforming but just restraining the prisoners for a couple of years. Often prisoners are mentally damaged from their visit in jail and many start to feel that jail is the only place for them. Additionally also hurts the prisoner because when he/she gets out no one will hire them though the system is suppose to reintegrate them back to society. Prisons are an awful system and there are multiple alternatives that are more effective.
Many people don’t have the best view point of people that have been through …show more content…
So with all these statistics, it seems that the prisons aren’t doing what they were made to do, and part of that is true, prison just aren’t working and most inmates repeatedly neglected to the point of mental illness. This mental illness causes the free inmates to feel a sense of security in prison, and this is caused by the consistency of prison life and the lack of decisions, “Jerry confides during his interview that he’s had trouble sleeping at the shelter for homeless veterans where he lives: ‘It’s like my body left the prison, but my mind is still in there.’” Jails are also unsafe even for the more hardened criminals; the multiple ways to be assaulted are too many to count and millions of dollars worth of drug getting funneled through the system. The need to find a clique in jail has lead to a huge spike in prison violence showing that, “Causes for prison violence can include gang-related activity. Gangs are present within prisons and include groups and alliances that have developed both inside and outside of prison walls” (Blanco). Many carve untraceable, small knives called shanks, “shanks are illegal contraband made from plastic silverware, scraps of sharp objects, and toothbrushes. With the combination of the two, deadly fights can break out; and for many of the gangs, you need to kill someone of the opposite race to get in, leading to segregated areas in the cafeterias and
Prisons are an old institution going as far back as even ancient Greece but is really helping society? It seems like on the news, every time someone gets arrested they’re being reincarcerated, it seems that prison really aren’t reforming but just restraining the prisoners for a couple of years. Often prisoners are mentally damaged from their visit in jail and many start to feel that jail is the only place for them. Additionally also hurts the prisoner because when he/she gets out no one will hire them though the system is suppose to reintegrate them back to society. Prisons are an awful system and there are multiple alternatives that are more effective.
Many people don’t have the best view point of people that have been through …show more content…
So with all these statistics, it seems that the prisons aren’t doing what they were made to do, and part of that is true, prison just aren’t working and most inmates repeatedly neglected to the point of mental illness. This mental illness causes the free inmates to feel a sense of security in prison, and this is caused by the consistency of prison life and the lack of decisions, “Jerry confides during his interview that he’s had trouble sleeping at the shelter for homeless veterans where he lives: ‘It’s like my body left the prison, but my mind is still in there.’” Jails are also unsafe even for the more hardened criminals; the multiple ways to be assaulted are too many to count and millions of dollars worth of drug getting funneled through the system. The need to find a clique in jail has lead to a huge spike in prison violence showing that, “Causes for prison violence can include gang-related activity. Gangs are present within prisons and include groups and alliances that have developed both inside and outside of prison walls” (Blanco). Many carve untraceable, small knives called shanks, “shanks are illegal contraband made from plastic silverware, scraps of sharp objects, and toothbrushes. With the combination of the two, deadly fights can break out; and for many of the gangs, you need to kill someone of the opposite race to get in, leading to segregated areas in the cafeterias and