Moving on, education is the most important aspect in ones life as this can develop into later employment, even though education is free in the UK, many offenders may or may not attend school and for those that do may end up receiving no qualifications due to their lifestyle and this causes a decline in the employment area as they many not have basic qualifications to get them by in order to receive a basic living wage. In 2012 47% of male prisoners have no qualifications and 41% were excluded from school (Prison Reform Trust 2014). 80% of prisoners have writing skills at or below the level of an eleven year old. Over two thirds of prisoners were unemployed prior to being sentenced, compared with just 5% of the general population; furthermore
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even though there are many practices that can help form a new set of normality for an individual who hasn't experienced this way of living before consequently the most recent annual report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons found that both “the quantity and quality of purposeful activity in which prisoners are engaged [has] plummeted” in 2012-13, reporting the worst outcomes in six years. In over half of prisons results were judged to be not sufficiently good or poor. But there has been many improvements over the last couple of decades where prison was more concerned with the personality of an offender, here punishment was modified to fight crime in the present society (Garland, 1990). But going back to how personality was now looked into why the criminal act was committed instead of putting an end to the disobedience. The result of this intervention was the increase of experts, such as criminologists, social workers and psychiatrists into the legal process (Foucault, 1977). If statistics show that the majority of the population is represented by the disadvantaged, to overcome giving a penalty that is seen as deserved for the offence often resulting in prison it can be argued that prisons are ineffective as a consequence because they can result in adding problems to those who suffer from mental illness and addictions. In 2007 a Liberal Democrat MP Mark …show more content…
As a result of this it was found that those who faced problems due to employment have the reoffending rate of 74%. Treating mentally ill patients in prison can be viewed as that demographic are treated unequally and that even though NHS healthcare services are available to them it may not be an appropriate care they
even though there are many practices that can help form a new set of normality for an individual who hasn't experienced this way of living before consequently the most recent annual report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons found that both “the quantity and quality of purposeful activity in which prisoners are engaged [has] plummeted” in 2012-13, reporting the worst outcomes in six years. In over half of prisons results were judged to be not sufficiently good or poor. But there has been many improvements over the last couple of decades where prison was more concerned with the personality of an offender, here punishment was modified to fight crime in the present society (Garland, 1990). But going back to how personality was now looked into why the criminal act was committed instead of putting an end to the disobedience. The result of this intervention was the increase of experts, such as criminologists, social workers and psychiatrists into the legal process (Foucault, 1977). If statistics show that the majority of the population is represented by the disadvantaged, to overcome giving a penalty that is seen as deserved for the offence often resulting in prison it can be argued that prisons are ineffective as a consequence because they can result in adding problems to those who suffer from mental illness and addictions. In 2007 a Liberal Democrat MP Mark …show more content…
As a result of this it was found that those who faced problems due to employment have the reoffending rate of 74%. Treating mentally ill patients in prison can be viewed as that demographic are treated unequally and that even though NHS healthcare services are available to them it may not be an appropriate care they