In addition to this, Active Band will help inmates reduce their weight and remain physically fit. It is clear that physical fitness will also help inmates defend and protect themselves from any physical confrontation from violent or mentally ill inmates. Furthermore, Active Band will help inmates realize the importance of living as one community as they serve their sentences. It remains clear that inmates will be able to exercise together using the Active Band and also exchange different ideas on how make their living environments safer. Active Band will also help prisoners stay active so they will perform their assigned tasks with fewer difficulties.…
Music Used as Resistance and Defiance During the Holocaust, there was a sense of hopelessness; although there was one thing that brought people together equally as well as it was used to split people apart. This was music. Music was used as a sort of cultural time capsule. It allowed the prisoners of the Third Reich to feel a sense of hope and cultural reconnection, but music was a double edged sword. It could also be used by the Germans to promote their genocidal ways to a wider group of individuals.…
We need prisoners to learn how to better themselves which will in fact better society as a whole. The only way to try to rehabilitate criminals is to allow them to take certain programs which will help the individual stay sane, learn a trade, and meet god. Having prisoners set goals in their time of imprisonment will surly make the prison society have a much safer atmosphere.(Colson, Charles. 90) In Mckean prison several measures have been adopted to try and reform the corrections process. These measures have made Mckean one of the most successful and safest medium security prison in the country. "…
It’s ridiculous that prisons are charging prisoners for healthcare in order to help cover prison cost. Prisons are making it seems as if prisoners choose to get sick, or even choose to be there. No one can help if they get sick, so why should it have to be something you have to pay for when you already have little to no money. Prisons healthcare has increased in the last few years causing them to have to put a lot more money into them but there is probably a reason for that. Prisons aren’t the most cleanly places to live so maybe if they cleaned them up a little more, or even made the prisoners be presentable there wouldn’t be as many sick people.…
There is no solution to reduce or eliminate contraband in a jail or correctional facilities. Every jail or correctional facilities has a policy that is implemented when drug are found on staff or inmates. The most desirable drug in a correctional setting is suboxone strips. These strips are found under stamp on the envelope or inside a padded envelope. To reduce the flow of contraband, I would re-enforce the no drug policies.…
Rules structure society to protect law-abiding citizens from the ones who break the laws. When one goes to prison, one loses their rights as a citizen. Depending on the crime, once a person is free from prison, that person becomes a citizen again. Patrick Buchana and Dean Karemera discuss whether or not a prisoner should have the right to vote in their article, “Debate: Should Prisoners Be Allowed to Vote?” Elizabeth Hull discusses if prisoners should have the right to vote once they have completed their sentence in her article, “Felons Deserve the Right to Vote”.…
Introduction: Have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you just can 't get out? Have you ever hummed a catchy tune unintentionally? And as for your favorite songs, do you ever wonder what the entire process was from start to finish? Its questions like these that make you wonder just what makes music so compelling, and how does it affect us psychologically. Music is an ever expanding world with endless possibilities and what I strive to find is the neuroscience of how music affects the perception and emotion of the listeners, some of the many things it can do to the body, and with everything I hope to learn how to grow as an artist.…
We need to reduce long prison sentence because it just have minimal impact on crime prevention, but it is making a huge financial burden on our society. There is no doubt that incarceration only works for some prisoners those are fear of jail. However, many people are not fear of jail, their life is just in and out jail. In these cases, incarceration is not effective. Therefore, besides incarceration we also need to add more mental health treatment, drugs treatment, and some programs to reduce violations instead of locking all of convicts up and throwing away the key.…
Now, I think that this is more of an outcome of someone’s incarceration than the purpose of it. There are both bad and good outcomes of incarcerating someone. Some of the bad include affecting their families, possible harm in prison, and making it hard for them to live after being released. At the same time, good things do come out of incarcerating someone as well. Some of these results are more safety for the public, and the prisoner accepting responsibility for what they did.…
Music is all around us, playing in shopping malls, on television, in elevators, and stored on our personal electronic devices. Music has the ability to change one’s mood to either positive or negative based on the genre and the lyrics a song. To determine if there is a correlation between music genres and deviant behavior, researchers Jeffery Lozon and Moshe Bensimon examines genres as alternative rock, hard rock, heavy metal, hip-hop/rap, punk rock, rock and electronic/techno to see if it influences an individual’s behavior negatively. Researchers Lozon and Bensimon expect to find that music as those listed above will have a connection to aggressive behavior and possible deviant activity.…
I never thought of using color in the prison system as a calming mechanism but it does makes perfect sense. Different colors elicit different emotions, and if calm can be achieved through the use of color than I feel it is something we need to investigate. While I know that inmates are in prison for a reason, I do believe prison officials and social scientist need to investigate different avenues to deescalating aggression. Inmates are locked in tight quarters with people all around. They are not given the opportunity of a ‘private’ space if they feel the need to be alone.…
This would keep the prisoners in a better mood because they would be getting the proper amount of nutrition needed to be a functional member of the prison. Studies also show that certain vitamins help keep a stabilized mood which could help keep violence down in the prison. Exercise is also very important as it helps keep the body in good physical shape and it’s also shown to improve mood and help fight of depression so frequent exercise is good for keeping the prison population happy. I would also recommend for every prison to have a garden so the prisoners could grow their own food which would help keep prison food cost down but it is also a good way to relive…
Prisoners are entitles to due process, safe and adequate shelter, food, clothing, and necessary medical treatment. However, inmates are not entitled to luxuries such as television, privacy, receiving an education while in prison, or any other tax-supported program while incarcerated. Prisons have offered rehabilitation programs for years at the cost of billions of dollars. When giving luxuries to prisoners the rights of people in society as well as the victims of these inmates are being…
The Psychology of Music People have only recently started studying in-depth into music’s connection with brain activity. Scientists are just now starting to develop theories why music has such a big impact on us as humans and our intelligence (Lerch). Music psychology is not a modern idea though. Even the ancient philosophers – Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras – believed in the calming power of music (“Music and Emotions”).…
However, as important as they are I feel they should be limited to a certain extent. There comes a point when privileges are exercised so much that they are being abused, and I feel that’s the case with inmates and their rights. On average, prisoners file more than two lawsuits every day. In a six-year period this cost the state of California more than 190 million dollars, and the system continues to be bombarded with lawsuits by inmates. Prisoner initiated lawsuits are costly for just about everyone except the prisoners themselves, and while some of them are valid and require attention, others are mere attempts at working the systems to gain an advantage upon release (Citizens in Chains, 2008).…