The PBS film, God on Trial, was an excellent display of the Holocaust experience as a prisoner. It reveals the circumstances they lived in, their mind of thinking, and the ways they were treated as prisoners. Similar to Viktor E. Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the movie shows the prisoners searching for a reason for their punishment. They witnessed their family members in pain, their belongings being torn away from them, and their dignity slowly diminishing. For example, one of the prisoners was asked to choose one of his sons to live, while the others had to die.…
In the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl we see that life in a concentration camp was no easy thing. They have to face so many horrible things and witness life traumatizing events simply because of the religion that they are. From the beginning of the book the to end, it is filled with the horrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Viktor shares with us his experiences and the things that he endured while at Auschwitz. One line that I thought was powerful and really stood out to me was when he said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”…
It is distinct that sustained racial segregation worsens existing disparities and nurtures stern societal and pecuniary disadvantage. However, more vigorous implementation of state and federal housing laws can decrease the inequality amongst the minority and majority criminality rates. With such action, accompanied by eradicating civilization over use of penitentiaries to challenge societal issues, can considerable decrease the outcomes of the collateral penalties from imprisonment and forcible flexibility on people of color. Conversely, mass incarceration is not a resolution to redundancy, nor is it a resolution to the massive collection of societal issues that are secreted in a swiftly system of jails and prisons. Though, the great mainstream…
a. Why has the prison population of the BOP increased over the past few years? Increases in inmate prison population are due to federal court sentencing of offenders to longer terms of incarceration, the return of parole violators, and the effort to combat organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal immigration. The majority of inmates are individuals who are serving sentences for drug law violations. In and effort to house and maintain all these inmates the BOP has opened at least 22 new correctional facilities since 2000, as well as four new medium-security facilities under construction plus two that are still in the design phase. b.…
Furthermore, while in prison convicts make millions of license plates, each year, and countless of other things that civilians outside the prison walls aren’t aware of according to an article by (Lucas Reilly 2013), such as; “Books for the Blind, Lingerie, Park Benches And Picnic Tables, Military Jackets and Battle Garb, Human Silhouette Targets, Old IKEA Products, Baseball Caps, Canoes, and Blue Jeans,” Evidently, this explains why there are more prisons opening up and police are arresting minorities for petty crimes, in order to fill them up. According to (Nathalie Baptiste 2016) article, she states that the nation’s over-incarceration problem dates to the “Tough on Crime” policies of the 1980's, which imposed mandatory minimum sentences on often low level…
Once taken into prison, the society usually profiles a person as evil and unfit in the community. Therefore reentering the society after prison may be one of the most traumatizing moments in a prisoners life. The society perceives the individuals as still a threat to the people, and therefore the person does not earn any form of respect from the members of the community. To some extent, even the family members may isolate their member who was in prison viewing him or her as a dangerous person in society.…
I definitely think inmate should have all protection under the First Amendement; because they are still human. They have a right to speak what they feel, and praise their own religion, or no religion. It should be there choice when it comes down to religion, because everyone doesn't believe in the same thing when it comes down to religion. I see nothing wrong if inmates want to have bible study on days that they all can do it, or make a praying circle with a group. It is a great thing, because it keeps some people focused while doing there time.…
Violence is everywhere. It even takes place within our jails and prisons. Even though incarceration removes a person from the community, it does not necessarily change that person’s behavior or prevent them from engaging in violence. Violence in correctional facilities is very common. This article talks about the percentages of inmates who are arrested for violent behavior, who only served nearly half of their sentence, and those who were recidivists and violent recidivists.…
I chose to discuss american economics and the prison system with the analysis of the positive and negative impact on the system, I chose this because recently my cousin has been taken into custody of the Arkansas police. We are not rich but we are not poor. We are the lower middle class and I feel like the economy and the incomes of the population has great importance to the prison system. Since the prison systems have been tougher on crimes there have been more people incarcerated.…
There is a difference between injustice and fair punishment. The different types of prisons and jails affect the way you are treated whether you are in an intake facility or all the way up to a maximum security prison. Prisoners are treated according to the crimes that they have committed, their race/ethnicity, their gender, their experience with substance abuse even mental illnesses. Some inmates have a difficult time coping with the prison system (“9 treatment issues specific to prisons.”) They report feeling traumatized and hopeless.…
Anticipating aggressiveness How understanding inter-group processes can help us anticipate and manage violence in prisons Violence within prisons is a serious problem we are facing now in this day and age. The number of riots in a prison have drastically increased since the 19** to *** and has severe consequences as it can lead to harm coming to many prisoners and guards also. It is through understanding inter-group processes that we can then understand why this level of violence within prisons takes place and find ways to anticipate riots and control them, and even reduce this violence. Intergroup processes is defined as the perception that individuals belong to distinct social groups+, and it is through these groups that individuals base…
On August 3, 2015, the Department of Education invited higher education institutions to apply for participation in Second Chance Pell, a pilot program under the Experimental Sites Initiative. If approved, higher education institutions collaborating with federal or state prisons will allow inmates to receive Pell Grants while incarcerated. State and federal prisoners had access to Pell Grants until 1994, when Congress banned access, claiming that allowing inmates access to Pell Grants restricted access of law-abiding citizens. At the time of the ban, inmates represented less than 1/10th of 1% of all grant recipients, constituting $34.6 million out of $5.3 billion. Since the announcement, progressive groups lauded the pilot program as a…
Cruelty in American prisons is an awfully controversial topic that numerous would rather not examine. What’s more, the reality is that the correctional system of the United States of America is malfunctioning. Likewise, it is estimated that 50% of all rape in penitentiaries is at the hands of correctional officers (Starr). The dominant part of these crimes do not obtain punishment and the officers can therefore continue to misuse their power without consequences. Nonetheless, inmates should be able to serve time and rehabilitate without being victimized by the ones in charge of keeping them safe.…
Frankl was a prisoner in a concentration camps and survived. His accounts of the time in the concentration camp, are grim and depressing. He writes of many physiological views and reasoning for prisoner’s choices and mental state. He puts their phycological phases into three phases. Phase one being shock, phase two being apathy and phase three being depersonalization.…
Abuse in American prisons is a very controversial topic that many would rather not discuss. The truth is the correctional system of the United States of America is defective. It is estimated that 50% of all rape in prisons is by the hands of correctional officers (Starr). Most of these crimes do not get punished and the officers continue to abuse their power without consequences. Moreover, inmates should be able to serve time and rehabilitate without being victimized by the ones in charge of keeping them safe.…