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The number has jumped from around 200 thousand people 50 years ago, to over 1.5 million in 2015 (“Trends in U.S. Corrections”). Compared to the rest of the world, the United States has the highest percentage of the population in prisons (“Trends in U.S. Corrections”). The prison overpopulation is due to the ineffective model of generally longer sentences being given in the United States. It is difficult to determine if the growing number…

In Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg retells her unfortunate story of imprisonment through Article 58 in Soviet Russia under Stalin’s rule. Before her trial, she spent two years in solitary confinement in a prison in Yaroslavl. The United States has a history with isolation and it is still used as a punishment today through the new name Super Max prisons. In the 19th century, many critics and reformists like Charles Dickens and William Crawford arose and solitary became a much…

meet regularly with me, the probation officer, attend support services, such as NA or AA, and refrain from using alcohol or illegal substances. However, in both cases I was surprised at the frequency in which they meet with me, the probation officer. I had thought that for the first few months that both probationers would have meet more frequently (in part to ensure they were following the rule of probation). However, given that an average probation officer in Rockpoint has a caseload of 75…

More privatized prisons in the system would only make the owners of the prison a lot more richer. Many may say that these owners of the prisons are helping the government to deal with the overcrowding situation. But how are the owners helping the government, it looks like the owners are helping themselves. The owners are taking advantage of the government's problems. Christopher Petrella, a researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, and he comes out to say " Private prisons set up…

In Joshua Strickland’s policy speech, “Prison Reform”, he discusses the present prison reform in the country. He shares his views while exploring possible solutions in effort to improve the conditions and the penalty system inside prisons all over the country. Strickland starts his speech with an analogy requesting his audience to do three things. First, he requested his audience to close their eyes and visualize the world as it is today, secondly, he solicited them to imagine their own perfect…

day. There are other programmes (Sayadi, 2012) within RTC which instills discipline as well. One of them is the Gang Renunciation Programme where inmates are encouraged to renounce their gang involvement in the presence of fellow inmates and prison officers. Another is the Tattoo Removal Project which aims to help former gang member turn over a new leaf by removing any gang insignia on their bodies. After discharging from RTC, the youth will be placed under close supervision and their movements…

Clothing and Fashion are also relevant to Goffman’s ‘total institutions’; in which the barrier between the front and back stage of an individual is broken, and individuals are placed under constant supervision (1961 cited in Dillon,2014:290). This concept of institutionalisation will be elaborated through the policies implemented in prisons. The common process of giving prisoners a uniform clothing (Anderson,2001:163) is one that Goffman would argue is designed to strip prisoners of their sense…

There are many differences between the Miami and Wabash county jails. Jails can be different in their size and capacity. The types of setup are different, and that could be based off of the year the jail was built. How much safety there is for the guards differs between the two jails? The size and capacity of the Miami jail is a big difference compared to the Wabash jail. The Miami jail can house up to 240 inmates. While the Wabash county jail only houses 72 inmates. This is why the Wabash…

the negative I experience in the community did not detour my expectations of graduating high school and even accomplishing it a year early. One system would partner up individual police officers from local units and youths that had been identified as being from broken homes, creating a mentor program. The officer would visit with the teen one day a week. Examples of interaction could be places like the park or a bowling alley. The local government official then would come in on another day…

There are six key elements that make up a good theory. These elements include parsimony, scope, logical consistency, testability, empirical validity, and policy implications. Parsimony is when a particular phenomenon is explained in a simple way. There is a problem with explaining criminal behavior in a simple way and that is that criminal behavior is complex. Even though criminal behavior is complex criminologists still attempted to explain it simply. An example of this would be rational choice…