Penology

Disenfranchisement is the ultimate way to take away someone’s rights. If they cannot vote, they have no way to express what they want in this country, and that can have a major impact when 2.5% of the United States voting population cannot vote because of it. The United States has a higher percentage of people incarcerated than any other country, and it could be changing the direction our country is going in to keep ex-felons from voting. I think voting is a right people in our country…

Some people have different opinions and think that juveniles should be held accountable for their actions. Mary Onelia has written many articles for student newspaper at the university of California in San Diego. She argued in the article Juveniles Should Be Tried as Adults in Certain Circumstances, “if you do and adult crime, you do the adult time.” People forget about the victims. People worry about the offender but don’t realize what the victims is going through. Onelia says in the article…

Punishment in contemporary society is concerned with managing crime at an acceptable level rather than correction (Disagree) The Australian criminal justice system today focuses on rehabilitating offenders to reduce recidivism rates. Rehabilitating offenders is not only beneficial, it is a cost-effective means of reducing society’s incarceration expenses and lessens further harm to that society. This essay briefly discusses these programs and demonstrates through studies the effectiveness of…

Group based correctional services are set up for delinquents giving them a chance to reintegrate back into the community to serve their remaining jail time (Antonacci, 158). After the delinquent has served a segment of their time in jail, the delinquent is evaluated for the risk or danger they may cause the community and recidivism, then after that they are permitted to serve the remained of their time in the community, if the evaluation goes well (Antonacci, 158). The house arrest of Martha…

Convicted By Murder Have you ever dreamed when you were a young teen about going to prison or your parent told you that they were going to put you in a scared straight program? A young male, Alexander Gordon Smith wrote a book called “Lockdown Escape From Furnace”. Furnace Penitentiary, in the distant future, is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It is buried a mile beneath the Earth’s surface. One way in and no way out. Once you're there, you're there until you die, and…

Torture is outlawed in international law and US law; yet the practice continues. Evidence suggests that the United States tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This paper suggests that torture occurred at Abu Ghraib and may continue to occur because guards naturally display their dominance over prisoners, in order to stay in control and because Abu Ghraib Prison was massively understaffed and soldiers and interrogators were untrained. When the United States was receiving too much publicity for the…

There are several challenges that elderly inmates pose for institutions. One of the first things to realize is the population of elderly inmates is increasing at a very fast rate (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Knowing this, experts have made an argument for housing the elderly inmates separate from other prisoners (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). This would allow the facilities to better care and provide the appropriate treatment for the differences in age of inmates (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015).…

There once was a boy named Tim. Tim grew up in a poverty stricken home. His father deals drugs in an effort to combat their poverty. Tim’s mom is an alcoholic. When Tim turns eighteen he joins a gang and enters the drug business. He is them arrested and put on trial. The judge must decide how to punish Tim. Two prominent forms of punishment are set before the judge: rehabilitation or retribution. What are these forms of punishment and how are they different? Though both are…

On Wednesday, October 26/2016, at about 1755, I Officer C. Montenegro (#1609) while on duty in the east control tower at Shawshank Prison, I saw an unidentified inmate enter the laundry room. That inmate was later identified as Dufresne (37927/E112). I saw two other unidentified inmates come from behind the laundry barrel; one inmate was later identified as Boggs (31804/B234). The second inmate, was later identified as Conroy (31428/B234). I saw that Dufresne took a step back with a…

Based on your opinions on what we’ve learned in this section, answer Cullen Murphy’s question: “Are We Rome?” I would agree with Cullen Murphy’s view of the state of the United States government. As the United States capital city Washington was once the center of the world quite like Rome was once the center of its world. There are arguments that Washington still is the as you would say capital of the world. However, I would disagree with that as the United States is no longer the sole super…