Imprisonment and detention

Prisons are designed to house convicted, adult felons serving a sentence of one year or more. Without prisons there would be chaos throughout the streets. Prisons are mostly new to criminal justice and corrections. Without prison systems there would be capital punishment and public humiliation. There needed to be a more humane and efficient way to punish and reform criminals. Over the next hundred years prison systems evolved with more and more policies and practices. Over years the public help…

facilities and judges gear shock incarceration toward juvenile delinquents and other youthful convicts, but recently many facilities have begun branching out to the first-time adult convicts as well. Shock incarceration is an alternative sentence to imprisonment where a lawbreaker spends 90 days in a boot camp atmosphere. In this boot camp atmosphere, convicts may participate in drug/alcohol abuse treatment programs, academic/employment programs, and other therapeutic treatments and programs.…

Prison overcrowdings have been and is one of the main key component factors of poor prison circumstances around the globe. Since 1981, prisons and jails have a huge continuous increase despite the decrease in both crime rates as well as the number of people arrested. It has been the biggest problem faced by the prison systems; its effects can become life threating making prisons are unable to prevent proper functions. “Prison overcrowding, is the aggressive “tough on crime" approach taken by…

Racial profiling is when “law enforcement and private security target people of color for humiliating and often frightening detentions, interrogations, and searches without evidence of criminal activity and based on perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.” (ACLU) Although it is unconstitutional, because of equal protection under the law for all and freedom from…

During humanities history, the use of violence remains a current reoccurring thread throughout the various stages of man’s growth and evolution. Humanity frequently responds violently to various life situations as a single entity or a body. Greed, dominance, elitism, and power are often the rational and justification behind man’s intensity, yet, there are times in history when violence is used to simply survive. Nelson Mandela felt justified in violence as the last resort. According to…

controversial belief that for-profit prisons save money, turn to privatization as a solution, rather than decreasing expenses by reducing the number of prisoners. For example, despite a recent statement by the Arizona Auditor General that for-profit imprisonment in Arizona may cost more than incarceration in publicly-operated facilities, Arizona has announced plans to give an additional 5,000 prison beds to private contractors (Shapiro 41). In addition, one clear cost disadvantage of private…

strokes of the cane. For armed robbery cases an extra 12 strokes are added on top of normal sentence. Whereas in Victoria, armed robbery has a maximum sentence of 25 years with a median sentence of 2.5 years, these are often served alongside Youth Detention or Community Corrections…

population. The school to prison pipeline has been described as one method that targets young people in schools and funnels them into the youth related justice system. Zero tolerance policies in schools have increased the numbers of young people facing detention. Low-income youth, youth of color and youth with learning and thinking-related disabilities are over-represented in the justice system and (surprisingly more than you would expect) targeted by zero tolerance policies (The Sentencing…

Mick Gooda, Social Justice Commissioner for the Australian Human Rights Commission, has described justice reinvestment as ‘sensible, practical things that can be done on the ground to make communities safer and reduce offending’. What is justice reinvestment, how does it work, and what are some of the ‘sensible, practical things’ proposed? In March 2010, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, explained the concept of justice reinvestment in a speech…

Summary: On Thursday, June 18, 2015 the conservative government of Canada received royal assent for a new piece of anti-terror legislation which will give expanded, controversial, and sweeping powers to Canada’s spy agency; the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIC). Because of the very radical changes C-51 proposes to the current terror prevention structure in Canada, many have simultaneously criticized and praised it. With opponents stipulating that because of the bill’s vague…