Penology

In a good man is hard to find, the book questions if a good man is really hard to find and shows that good men are often masked by unexpected people. The idea that there are very few good men and that good men can be found in the least expected people in the world is shown through the characters such as the misfit, Bailey, and the grandma. Many good men are not the people that one would expect them to be. This is strongly shown through The Misfit. In the end of the story, the Misfit has a…

“According to the rule generally received, which supposes that one in thirty dies yearly, the race of man may be said to be renewed at the end of thirty years.” That was said by author Samuel Johnson in his excerpt from “Debtors’ Prisons.” In this excerpt it comes off pretty obvious that he does not agree with the reasons some people get sent to prison. In this excerpt he just so happens to mainly be speaking up for the prisoners of debt. In the first paragraph of the essay Johnson writes,…

David A. Garza Correctional Services- 2nd Block Rough draft- Final Project 18 November, 2015 Elderly Offenders Texas’s elderly inmates, classified as those above 55 and older, make up about 7.3% of Texas’s offender population and are rising by about 6% every year. They account for nearly a third of hospital costs and make three times as many visits to prison medical departments as younger inmates do. Elderly inmates care averages out to $100,000 compared to $31,307 for inmates under 55 years…

Gender inequality has been an ongoing issue in America for several years. This concern is most problematic in the legal system, as well as in prison. A survey conducted by Sonja Starr found that men serve more time in prison than women for the same crime. This is a prominent example of inequality within the legal system in today’s society. Similar to Starr’s survey, Penelope Eckert and Sally Mconnel recognize the vast inequality between men and women in prison in the article “ Learning to be…

Over the years, jury systems have precedent the way we reach a verdict based on the trial. Moreover, it has been proven that jury systems have shaped Americans to be self-governors (Document B). Evidence shows that in a twelve month period bench trials have only 65 percent of criminals that have been convicted and 87 percent of criminals have been convicted in jury trials (Document A). This proves that jury systems are able to prosecute more and deliver more justice than bench trials. To begin,…

Our prison systems in the United States seem to be under constant scrutiny and debate in some form or fashion. One specific topic that has been under quite a bit of heat is the discussion of solitary confinement. While many other countries have pulled the plug on this practice, American prison systems seem to be exploding in the opposite direction, increasing the number of inmates we maintain in solitary confinement at an alarming rate. This certainly leads to a rabbit hole of questions, but as…

Visher& Travis, 2003). Most offenders leaving prison lack a competitive resume, under-skilled relative to the general population, and suffer from a debilitating stigma that is attached to their criminal history (Pager, 2003). Owing to these deficits, parolees face significant challenges finding work (Petersilia, 2003). Some, however, rely on family members to procure job arrangements, and it is through this mechanism of job attainment that family ties are thought to be instrumental in altering…

1. Philip Zimbardo and his associates Craig Huney, Curtis Banks, and David Jaffe were interested in the psychological affects experienced by prisoners and employees of prisons. They were trying to answer the question “Does prison change people?” They did not formulate any hypotheses, but they believed that powerful situations can overcome internal behavioral tendencies, leading us to engage in behaviors that are different from our usual selves, and that situation exerts strong effects over our…

Juvenile offenders should not receive life sentence because they have not experienced life long enough to realize what they have did was wrong but, the juvenile’s in my opinion should have to a sort of community work or program to see the real views on life to understand what they did was wrong. Sending juvenile’s to prison is not the answer for many reasons including the violence that happens in prison’s, there is also a higher returning rate after juveniles have went in once, lastly, teenagers…

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is the author of the book Guantánamo Diary and is a current prisoner at Guantánamo Bay. Mohamedou has been held in the Guantánamo Prison for twelve years. Those twelve years have consisted of non-stop brutality in order for him to confess to crimes he didn’t do. As he first arrived to Guantánamo Bay he was tortured for 24 hours a day and although they till this day can’t find evidence of what they are accusing him of they are still keeping him locked up in an isolated cell.…