Intro In the United States our criminal justice system is in need of some change. The amount of people in the jail, and prison population is enormous. The amount of people sent to these facilities, outweigh the individuals who get out. In this section of victimization, this part of it has to do with the criminal justice system already sentencing the person to prison. The unfair inhumane treatment of inmates in the jail and prison population. The United States indeed need to change the prison communities. There is a need of evolving from what prison is known for now, to being what it should have been a correction facility. Correcting the behavior of the individual, instead of cycling them through the system over and over.
Physical Victimization For too long now jails, and prisons have had a negative stigma of when you get there you have to watch your back. In prisons there is a high chance of physical victimization, than people on the outside. When a person is sent to prison, and who actually did the crime should in fact do the time. However it does not mean for the person to be repeatedly victimized. In no way is victimization by staff, or …show more content…
There is a more reoccurring victimization going on in need of addressing. Sexual victimization, in the form of an inmate raping another inmate. Often times we hear about situations of rape going on correctional facilities. Not until 2003, where sexual assault has been paid extra attention too. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 was enacted to do so. The Bureau of Justice Statistics annually statistically analyze in incidents and effects of rape. At least 10 percent of all states, county and prisons are looked at. Seeing how bad the problems are in the system. Sexual assault in jails and prisons go unreported, because the victim fears for their safety. Do not want to be hurt again, so this issue becomes a dark crime figure going
Physical Victimization For too long now jails, and prisons have had a negative stigma of when you get there you have to watch your back. In prisons there is a high chance of physical victimization, than people on the outside. When a person is sent to prison, and who actually did the crime should in fact do the time. However it does not mean for the person to be repeatedly victimized. In no way is victimization by staff, or …show more content…
There is a more reoccurring victimization going on in need of addressing. Sexual victimization, in the form of an inmate raping another inmate. Often times we hear about situations of rape going on correctional facilities. Not until 2003, where sexual assault has been paid extra attention too. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 was enacted to do so. The Bureau of Justice Statistics annually statistically analyze in incidents and effects of rape. At least 10 percent of all states, county and prisons are looked at. Seeing how bad the problems are in the system. Sexual assault in jails and prisons go unreported, because the victim fears for their safety. Do not want to be hurt again, so this issue becomes a dark crime figure going