The Darkside of Prison Life
Many people don’t understand the sheer number of inmates are in prison this very moment and do people know what is going on in prison.
The first that most see first before to iron bars is the courtroom typically and are sentence to confinement. Confinement in prison, also known as a penitentiary or correctional facility, is the punishment that courts most commonly imposed for serious crimes, such as felonies. For lesser crimes, courts usually impose short-term incarceration in a jail, detention center, or similar facility. Confining criminals for long periods of time as the primary form of punishment is a relatively new concept. Throughout history, various countries have imprisoned criminal offenders, but imprisonment …show more content…
First of all the mentality of prison is a special form of “survival of the fittest” in the form of a pack or gangs. Prison gangs are defined as criminal organizations that are formed in the penal system and operate within the prison facilities of the United States. Each gang has their own signature and symbols to establish themselves as who they are by tattoos or paint on walls. Nationally, there are six major prison gangs that are recognized. The six gangs are the Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family (BGF), La Nuestra Familia (NF), Mexican Mafia (EME), Neta, and Texas Syndicate (TS). The life of a cage is a very harsh one filled with poor choices and pain to where some are pushed so far to take their own life. One of the everyday occurrence is suicide, there is a daily number of deaths by their own hands. It's such an regular event in prison that is last years news. Its sad that the people inmates and staff alike has become numb to the lost of human life. Today there are about over one thousand lives lost everyday but there is hope do to therapy programs the rate of death has gone down by 2.8%. The rate may be going down but there are still lives lost but there is hope for the …show more content…
Prison facilities include the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord, the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown, the Lakes Region Facility in Laconia, and the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin. The Lakes Region Facility is reserved for first-time offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes; the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility houses medium-security male inmates. It costs $19,888 per year to keep an inmate in prison in New
Many people don’t understand the sheer number of inmates are in prison this very moment and do people know what is going on in prison.
The first that most see first before to iron bars is the courtroom typically and are sentence to confinement. Confinement in prison, also known as a penitentiary or correctional facility, is the punishment that courts most commonly imposed for serious crimes, such as felonies. For lesser crimes, courts usually impose short-term incarceration in a jail, detention center, or similar facility. Confining criminals for long periods of time as the primary form of punishment is a relatively new concept. Throughout history, various countries have imprisoned criminal offenders, but imprisonment …show more content…
First of all the mentality of prison is a special form of “survival of the fittest” in the form of a pack or gangs. Prison gangs are defined as criminal organizations that are formed in the penal system and operate within the prison facilities of the United States. Each gang has their own signature and symbols to establish themselves as who they are by tattoos or paint on walls. Nationally, there are six major prison gangs that are recognized. The six gangs are the Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family (BGF), La Nuestra Familia (NF), Mexican Mafia (EME), Neta, and Texas Syndicate (TS). The life of a cage is a very harsh one filled with poor choices and pain to where some are pushed so far to take their own life. One of the everyday occurrence is suicide, there is a daily number of deaths by their own hands. It's such an regular event in prison that is last years news. Its sad that the people inmates and staff alike has become numb to the lost of human life. Today there are about over one thousand lives lost everyday but there is hope do to therapy programs the rate of death has gone down by 2.8%. The rate may be going down but there are still lives lost but there is hope for the …show more content…
Prison facilities include the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord, the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown, the Lakes Region Facility in Laconia, and the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin. The Lakes Region Facility is reserved for first-time offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes; the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility houses medium-security male inmates. It costs $19,888 per year to keep an inmate in prison in New