Penology

Every day, people are executed by the state as punishment for a variety of crimes. Life without Parole is an alternative to the Death Penalty. In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Unlike the death penalty, a sentence of Life without Parole also allows mistakes to be corrected. According to the California Governor's Office, only seven people sentenced to life without…

Privatized prisons and jails have been around for a long time; they existed during the pre-civil war and American colonies era of the United States. However, in the early to mid-1980s, the industry of private prisons was rejuvenated in the U.S. to try to boost third parties to manage the facility for less cost but with better results. In this generation, several industries and corporations—powerful ones to be exact—are running the business of private prisons and jails for many reasons including…

Prisons are a world of their own with a social and economic system that utilizes their population, the prisoners. The severity and intensity of prisoners’ rehabilitation is a controversial topic. There is a long standing history of neglect and abuse of power, victimizing the physical and mental health of inmates. This corrupt and inhumane prison system is perpetuated by the labor system, its profits garnering support from various corporations and organizations. The labor system was built not to…

I believe that the biggest legal liability in corrections today is the assessment, treatment, and management of those with mental illness. At this point in time, the legal system seems to be swamped with court cases regarding law enforcement and correctional facilities versus the treatment of mentally ill persons. In a 2006 Justice Department analysis, it was concluded that 1.2 million people that are in either state, local or federal custody reported some kind of mental health problem. What is…

Guards admit that the environmental stress might lead them to take it out on the prisoners. Visiting spaces and hours are crowded, and as there are not enough guards to put on this duty, the lines for waiting visitors are sometimes unendurable, specially for children and the elderly. As prisoners are shifted to different facilities, guards do not know them as well, and the lack of trust creates paranoia for both sides. Body searches are regularly conducted which mean they have to be nude and…

Once the imprisonment used to be the main way of sentencing the culprits, the recent years have experience new methods of punishment including community service. In this regard, supporters contemplate that only by the solitary imprisonment could offenders profound the consequences of their aggression, however, the positive outcomes of social services are highlighted by the opponents. So violent some actions are that most of the citizens wold agree on the imprisonment of the delinquents; avoiding…

For an extensive amount of time, there have been many debates on if the death penalty should exist or not. For some, people believe that there are alternative ways to deal with inmates who have done serious crimes. Many of these people feel that the death penalty is too harsh and can come with many negative effects, such as with the Bart Whitaker case. Alternative penalties suggested can vary from placing inmates in rehabilitation facilities to life in prison. On the other hand, many of us…

1.Detention facilities are imprisonment of someone guilty or suspected of a crime the persons there just to "pay the time for their crime". While Correctional facilities are what their name suggests facilities intent on correcting the behavior or person. 2.Parole is the release of the bad person; usually the board decides whether the prisoner gets to get out or not. 3.A typical inmate in a prison in the United States would be lights on for breakfast at 6:30am and then their day jobs starts…

The death penalty issue has always been one of the most important issues of the justice system. For many years ago, the majority of the criminals were adults over 20, but nowadays the situations have changed. The number of criminal is not only growing up by adults but also by children who are under 18 years old committed murders and other horrible crimes. Capital punishment has been widely used almost everywhere in this country for people who break the law. On the other hand, people who favor in…

The death penalty is corporal punishment in the United States for most states. There are some states that think the death penalty isn’t needed. The other states believe it’s fast and easy. There are legal issues regarding the applications of the death penalty. The states that do not approve of the death penalty know that the death penalty gives some of the worst offender’s publicity that they do not deserve. Killers are thrown out to the media for what they did wrong when they do not deserve…