I wonder how hard it really to go prison is. In a world we live in today many Americans are in over their head in debt. When you go to prison you have nothing to worry about except for possibly getting your butt handed to you. Facilities seem to not be that too terrible of place to stay in.…
The documentary film “13th” directed by Ava DuVernay is an interesting look at the prison system, how and why Black and Hispanic people make up the majority of the prison population and how the problems within the interconnected political, judicial, and prison system have grown and changed over time. It discusses topics such as the death penalty, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the dehumanization of prisons and about how labeling individuals and groups and criminals effects perception of these people or groups. The documentary touches on the death penalty at certain points in relation to other issues within the criminal justice system. The pressure for sentencing people under the death penalty was overwhelming for politicians.…
There are many sides of the healthcare industry. Majority of U.S. citizens have access to hospitals and urgent care centers, but many do not think about the health care conditions in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Depending on the location, numerous amounts of prisoners did not receive the basic health care they should be provided with. Some may say that prisoners should not receive the right to health care because they just get it handed to them unlike everyday citizens. If the diseases, sicknesses, and illnesses are left untreated in prisons, prisoners can be released back into the community and the chance of contamination will be increase and spread healthy others in the area.…
In 2013 over one and a half million people have 3 meals a day, a warm bed, shelter, free exercise, and free entertainment. Welcome to prison, a place that almost rewards you for doing something wrong. One million federal state prisons, and seven hundred and fifty local prisons, each costing about seventy three million dollars for one prison. Why? Well fun fact, you are paying for them.…
correctional facilities and jails experience the ill effects of maladjustment, compulsion or irresistible and endless illnesses like HIV/AIDS and diabetes (Clemmitt). A large number of individuals with schizophrenia, depression and other mental issues are also in jail, frequently in isolation just in light of the fact that there is no spot to send them for treatment. According to a research group in New York, “83 percent of inmates with mental illness received no treatment for their condition after admission” (Glazer). Prison Reform Movement The jail change development is still alive today.…
It therefore seems that the costs of handling inmate is pushed to the inmate themselves, and not to the government. Private prisons handle prisoners, charge fees and levies on the very prisoners, and are therefore act like an investment in most countries which authorize privatization of prisons. Being like business ventures, they make profits, and the very profits are have taxes levied on them by the state governments, who in turn reports to the federal government. Taxes that are charged on investments are used as revenues for funding state projects and activities, and private prisons contribute a lot towards state…
Taxpayers pay 75,000 dollars a year for one prisoner to be isolated? How much more ridiculous can it get, there are top tier colleges that cost significantly less, or just about the same amount for a full year in college. Sure, there are few successful cases where inmates who were in solitary confinement overcame their criminal pasts, but the matter of fact is isolating those who are incarcerated cost much of the taxpayers…
Why is it that they are keeping elderly inmates in prison who are bedridden? The elderly population in prison is increasing at a staggering rate and its becoming a nightmare. “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog analyzed that the Bureau of Prisons has been most often unable to provide adequate and humane housing and care for elderly inmates” (Price). The result of mass incarceration and strict sentencing strategy at the federal and state level. Elderly prisoners necessitate more expensive care at a time when they are danger to the community at large decline.…
Prisoners may be stripped from some constitutional rights, but cruel and unusual punishment and the right to voice personal concerns over the health and well-being of the inmates are two basic rights kept by incarcerated individuals. But the private sector is silencing the voices and concerns of the public and of inmates due to the lustful allure to greed and financial growth. By removing the ability to create…
Canadians are known for their humane practices. They are known for apologizing too much, letting others go first, and their general kindness. Canada's legal system is another thing that is well-known and generally agreed upon around the nation. However, there's one part of this system that Canadians are very appalled with; and that's the prison system. Prisons face a lack of necessities and are full of racism.…
The action to handle the rapid increase of mentally ill prisoners isn't helping Instead, lawmakers continue to cut funding for mental health services, even though the number of Florida’s prisoners diagnosed with mental illnesses has increased 150 percent over the past two decades (Gilna). Not only do mentally ill prisoners have to survive through their illness, but also from mistreatment by prison officials. A newly hired prison guard in one of Florida’s correctional institutions was informed by an inmate in the psychiatric area that they were being starved (Press). They can be restricted from things that are assumed to be helpful to their treatment, such as going outside for exercise for weeks or months (Press). People being kept in cells for most of the day only getting an hour or two of sunlight and fresh air is needed for those who are mentally stable, mentally ill prisoners will need much more.…
In addition, the prison uses money to provide benefits. The American prison system uses too much of tax payer’s money to provide programs for these…
In the present day world there is a major incarceration problem. Many people might think that mass incarceration does not apply to them or really is not a big issue, however, those individuals would be wrong. Even though most people are not going to be locked up in this mass incarceration era it still has a negative effect on the public. Taxpayers are the people who pay for all the people incarcerated and contrary to popular belief this can be a costly bill to cover. I understand that words are not always accurate or convincing but numbers can be persuasive and do not lie.…
“These prisons operate without the same systems of accountability as regular Bureau of Prisons facilities and prisoners suffer,” said Carl Takei, an ACLU attorney (Wessler 1). Private prisons are allowed to provide inadequate medical care to their prisoners. Licensed Practical Nurses (LV/PNS) are often hired to work at private prisons as opposed to Registered Nurses (RNs); however, these employees are not as rigorously trained. They are intended to be support staff, not primary caregivers. “In 19 cases reviewed and reported to The Nation, at least one medical doctor flagged the overextension of LVNs as a factor impeding medical care” (Wessler 4).…
Mental health services should be provided in prison for inmates diagnosed with a mental sickness to further protect the U.S. citizens, slowly diminish the criminal behavior in America, and to improve the nation’s overall mental…