Incarceration

United States. Davis mentions how the fastest growing groups in prisons are black females and native Americans. Since 1970, the amount of “incarcerated women in California” has doubled (684). That is the problem society faces today, that mass incarceration has affected the government’s social program. The American justice system is focusing on punishment that is profitable which causes the “political economy of prisons” to rely “on racialized assumptions of criminality” (684). It’s a practice of…

the Canadian criminal justice system. The legacies of racism and colonial injustice permeate Canadian institutions that perpetuate the disproportionate representation of Indigenous peoples in prison. In this paper, I will examine what Indigenous incarceration looks like in Canada and the negative impacts state control over Indigenous peoples is highly problematic, particularly due to systemic racism and overrepresentation in prisons and are legacies of colonialism and residential schools. I will…

is a well known problem in the United States today and is even a part of heated debates in the current election; the incarceration rates have skyrocketed in the past year and crime rates have not gone down. Crime, in fact, has also been at an all time high. This is not a worldwide issue, however, and it is obvious we as a country need to make a change in system. The incarceration rate is known to be an issue, but few know how much of a problem it is. The prisons now hold over two million people…

Mass Incarceration: Mass incarceration is a criminal sanction carried out by the justice system that results in nearly invisible punishment including the diminution of rights and privileges of citizenship and legal residency in the United States (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002). Mass incarceration provides one of the largest and most influential examples of institutionalized racism in the contemporary U.S. because of the way that african americans are systematically singled out to be searched,…

Much research has been conducted on the criminalization, incarceration, and rehabilitation of men; much less has been conducted in these areas for women. Sadly, the research on the effects on children of the incarceration of their mothers, particularly in a Canadian context, is decidedly lacking. Children remain the invisible victims in a system that seeks to mete out justice to their mothers without reflecting on the cost to the child. As a result, children end up paying a heavy price for…

address congestion issues at prisons through long-term planning and seeking alternatives to incarceration especially in relation with individuals who commit minor crimes. Currently, more than half of those incarcerated are due to minor offences such as drug peddling, which can be addressed through other means to avoid overloading of the prisons. This paper addresses some of the alternatives to incarceration that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) can adopt to avoid overloading of…

Alternatives to Incarceration Catherine Dorman Criminal Law CJL2100 Abstract This paper is an attempt to explore options available in lieu of traditional incarceration. It outlines the reasons for more liberal use of alternatives and the advantages to the use of them. This includes advantages in cost savings, advantages to society, and reducing prison population Alternatives to Incarceration Traditional incarceration is expensive and does very little to prepare an offender for…

correctional system, The search for alternatives to incarceration has,been a bit of a challenge. In the 1950s, national attention was focussed on the development of alternative, community-based correctional services. In the early stages of the community corrections movement, local institutions, residential centres, group homes and specialized probation services were promoted as alternatives to incarceration In the 1960s and 1970s, alternatives to incarceration became an even greater fascination…

The mass incarceration of minority and impoverished communities around the globe, but most specifically in the U.S. is the subtle, yet active form of racism that we use today to discriminate, separate, and hinder the opportunities of those who become trapped behind bars. The incarceration system around the globe has a deep history that differs from country to country, some being more violent and unfair, like that of Latin America, to others being more successful in treating prisoners like human…

Today there is a misconception about mass incarceration being related to slavery, because of the systematic conception that it is a way to keep individuals deemed as a criminal away from the rest of society. Although, mass incarceration populates all misfits, there seems to be a severe injustice in the amount of African-Americans that are in our prison system. African-Americans make up 13 percent of the overall population; meanwhile, they account for 40 percent of the prison system (Khalek,…