California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

effects can be aggressive as well as depressive. In 2013, Evan Abel, a prisoner at the Colorado Department of Corrections, killed his correctional officer Tom Clements after being released from solitary confinement. After Clement’s death, his successor had this to say about Evan: “Whatever solitary confinement did to him, it was not for the better.”…

add a conjunction] Pelican Bay Prison is currently not overcrowded unlike various other American prisons; although with the violence that occurs within the prison, there is insufficient staff for dealing with the disputes (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR] 2016). For example, during yard sessions, there are 180 prisoners to only six guards on duty, therefore, disputes can escalate rapidly (PBP 2015). As gang violence is a particular concern in the US, Pelican Bay…

“The inner workings of the prison-industrial complex can be observed in the state of New York, where the prison boom started, transforming the economy of an entire region; in Texas and Tennessee, where private prison companies have thrived; and in California, where the correctional trends of the past two decades have converged and reached extremes(Schlosser,1998).” The obsession with locking people up in the United States does not come cheap. The states spend more than 35 billion dollars a year…

According to studies of sex offenders there is a 36% chance of them re-offending. The viewpoints that are going to be used are “Child Predators Need Both Punishment and Treatment” written by Jake Goldenflame, a convicted child sexual abuser who believes that sexual predators with treatment won’t reoffend and provides his number of years he has been without reoffending as evidence. The credibility of Goldenflame can be severely questioned due to the fact that he is a sexual abuser of his own…

Death Penalty The form that the death penalty is administered in the United States is not an appropriate method of punishment. I will argue throughout this essay that the United States should not use the death penalty which is known as the capital punishment, anymore. The United States should use the money that is going into the capital punishment into a program will benefit the prisoners. We should abolish the death penalty because the cost for a defendant to have a fair trial for the death…

after his release Church committed another crime just to go back to his former job at the prison unit. Low levels of education and few job skills for him contributed to his return. He says he should have sought more counseling or looked for a rehabilitation center to receive the help he needed. Programs that teach inmates the right skills and give them the education they need to find a job once released, do play a role on people 's lives. Prison should be a place where men and women go to do…