Prison Break

shows a great example of how Australian prison system sometimes don’t reform ex-convicted and they come out worse than before. According to the social researcher Tony Vinson documents (Inter Church Criminal Justice Taskforce, 2010) it indicates prison often don’t improve the problems of what cause the ex-convict to keep offending and imprisoning prisoner is unlikely to break the cycle of crime. Another key point, is if the criminal stay to long in prisons it bring a negative effect. In other…

Overall, the visit to Gouverneur Correctional Facility was unforgettable and extremely humbling. As we arrived to the prison we checked in and were escorted into a side room where we got a general overview of what the day would consist of by a pair of the correctional officers. We were shown some of the injuries that occurred and some of the weapons that were found at the prison. The injuries were especially disturbing, many of the images displayed prisoners with their faces shredded, there…

The offender serves probation within the community under specific conditions in lieu of incarceration (Alarid & Del Carmen, 2012). There are several differences between parole and probation. Parole is a supervised release of an offender from prison; whereas, probation is a type of criminal sentence imposed on an offender in lieu of incarceration (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Parole is granted at the discretion of a parole board; whereas, probation is imposed by a judge (American…

such behaviors, intervention and possible prevention can take place. High risk inmates, those known for violent behaviors, possess as a critical threat to staff, other inmates and to the prison system. Over time, the correctional institution sought out other ways to classify…

The article tried to address that the prison guards and convict would tend to slip into predefined roles, behaving in way that they thought was required rather than using their own judgment and morals. It addresses what happened when all of the individuality and dignity was stripped away from a human, and their life was completely controlled. It addresses that the dehumanization and loosing of social and moral values can happen to guards immerse in such situation. The hypothesis is that “if man…

School:Used for education or a future prison? Many students claim they are in prison when they attend school, it could just be that they would rather be home due to boredom, or maybe they’re hinting at something society is too blind to notice. Punishments within the prison and our education system are very alike except, they are named differently and executed on different levels of severity. Such as a common form of punishment in schools, suspension. Different varieties of suspension will be…

culture religion or any other variables. The guidelines books breaks down suggested sentencing times for offenders that then are given to the judge. The manual is on a number scale and a range…

Newburn (2012) said that in mid-2012 they were 139 prisons and about 87,000 prisoners in both England and Wales. Reducing reoffending in the society costs the criminal justice system a lot of money, when an ex-offender re-offends it costs an average of £65,000to the point of re-imprisonment and after imprisonment, it cost as much as £37,000 a year they are in prison. Also the total record of crime committed by ex-offenders in the society is estimated at around £11 billion a year (Secretary of…

An approach that uses threats of legal punishment to make an attempt of demolishing criminal actions is deterrence. The use of deterrence is used for intimidation and to prevent individuals from breaking the law and being deviant. Deterrence has two different concepts including specific deterrence and general deterrence. Specific deterrence is dedicated to the offender that has a chance of being punished. The consequences used for this individual is to end future crimes. General deterrence is…

Prisoners are treated unfairly in the case of Mexico’s maximum security prison. An 11 page letter signed by notorious criminals like El Chapo Guzman and Edgar Valdez Villarreal and many others showcases that there were many things that were unfair inside the prison. The letter states that they were kept in their cells for 23 hours in horrid conditions, and no exercise outside. Inside the cells, the beds are described as odorous and have springs sticking out of them. The letter also says that…