Newgate Prison

recidivism rate to the increasing population of american prisons Our justice system continues to prove that it needs change. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you 're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower. This quote is not only a perfect representation of our current justice system but it also perfectly depicts how the intentions behind prisons have backfired. Prisons are becoming long term hotels for people…

One thing that everyone can agree on is that people tend to disagree with each other. The disagreement was very common in the past and is just as prevalent in today 's society. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of those topics that raises eyebrows and may cause a lot of controversy and disagreement. The reason for this is when discussing whether a person should live or die based on a decision that they made, the morality of the person arguing comes into play. Morality…

his speech to the NAACP Obama argues several points surrounding the nation’s inequities and short comings when it comes to its justice system. Obama is particularly concerned with the number of colored community members who sitting in overcrowded prisons. Obama begins to dissect this issue by taking a look at the statistics from the last thirty years which show a dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated, and of those prisoners that belong to the Latino and African American race.…

criminal is considered mentally ill and needs to be cured. Before the Progressive Movement after World War II, there were efforts made to change how the correctional policies and procedures were played out. Sadly, most often the actual design of a prison was based off of budgetary concern rather than actual sound penal theory. During the early twentieth century guards were not trained, and basked in the use of their unlimited authority. For instance, even though the Elmira Reformatory was…

“If you were sentenced to five years in prison, but had the option of receiving lashes instead, what would you choose?” Writer and former police officer Peter Moskos thinks that most people would opt to receive ten lashes rather than spend five years in prison. This proposition from Moskos is the basis of his 2011 book ‘In Defense of Flogging,’ wherein he suggests corporal punishment as an alternative to incarceration. When a crime is committed, society expects an appropriate punishment to be…

Scholarly research has demonstrated the many correctional treatment programs have effectively reduced recidivism rates (Cullen & Gendreau, 2000). Although the concepts of rehabilitation and correctional treatment were dominant throughout the majority of the twentieth century, they have been subject to much debate and criticism. Such controversy can be seen when examining the three different shifts in thinking about offenders and how such views have influenced correctional treatment models. In…

Butler provides relevant arguments such as the racism in court, specifically the way white jurors are more likely to agree with a white person’s testimony as opposed to a black person’s. His opinion concerning the alarming rate of youth entering prison before the age of thirty is something we should look at in more depth. With all these positive changes he is trying to make for nonviolent criminals, he seems too prejudice towards African Americans and not willing to give Caucasians the same…

the number of incarcerations in America has more than tripled and the amount the nation spends to maintain these facilities is six times the annual budget for our education system (Gopnik, 2012). Due to overcrowding and the high density of these prisons, certain inmates cannot be held in the general population…

The definition of justice is subjective. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines justice as “the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments” and “the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law or equity.” Justice is the upholding of what is morally and legally right in the eyes of the law and those that create it. It is the pursuit of truth. And as much…

All kids are in charge of their actions but is it irresistible to give them life in prison. If we give kids life how are they to learn from their mistakes. All we do when we put them in jail for life is killing them. We shouldn’t waste perfectly could lives when there are circumstances that interfere with their learning. Kids should not be put in jail because the system is failing the kids who are getting abused, families influencing kids of making bad decisions and lastly kids brains are not…