Prison Break

originally enacted in 1994 in California. The law came about in 1992 when a young innocent girl named Kimber Reynolds from Fresno was murdered in an attempted purse snatching by two convicts who had previously just finished serving their times in prison. Immediate after the death of Kimber, her father Mike was inspired to take action to help prevent innocent people from getting harmed by criminals. Mike Reynolds and his group put together a law and named it, “Three Strikes and You’re Out!” law.…

in prison for tax evasion. He was also fined 8,000 dollars along with the 11 year sentence. But the fine was not the problem, considering he made 60 million dollars selling illegal liquor. “A knife wound on his left cheek earned Capone his nickname Scarface” (Roxburgh 10). Some background info on Al Capone is that he was a good student until he ran away and never went back to school after the 6th grade. The public also blamed him for the St. Valentine's day massacre. After 6.5 years in prison he…

How is Aboriginal Incarceration rates being addressed and how viable are these legal solutions? Circle sentencing is an alternative method of sentencing adult Indigenous offenders. It involves the local Indigenous people to get directly involved in the process of issuing sentences to the offenders, with aims of making the criminal justice system a little more meaningful and also confidence improving. In February 2002, Nowra in New South Wales was to trial circle sentencing for Indigenous…

referring to a guy that can get things those in prison might want, like cigarettes, alcohol, or anything else within reason. This makes him a very important man in prison, because in order to get what people want, he has to have connections on the inside and outside. Given that he is the only one the reader knows about that is able to do this, he seems to be highly respected by fellow prisoners, including the main character, Andy Dufresne. Dufresne’s time in prison wasn’t deserving, he was found…

is set by the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing policy. The policy impacted prisons across the country. There has been an enormous rise in the prison population, along with the guidelines causing discrimination with in the justice system. When the policy was reintroduced, it was a way to help make people feel safer in their towns. Being a main part of the war on crime, it was thought to keep criminals off the streets and in prisons. For certain crimes, like drug crimes, there would be an amount of…

state mental health budgets is being spent on state prisons and the incarceration system. While mental institutions and prisons have similarities on paper, they are also fundamentally different in the goal they are trying to accomplish. Prisons should be for the rehabilitation of those who break the law, and it should serve as a way to help transition the convicts within back into society without future problems. Mental institutions should, like prisons, be for rehabilitation, but they should…

America currently has more than 4x the amount of individuals incarcerated than we did 40 years ago. Along with the spike in our prison population, we have seen an increase in individuals that abuse drugs and alcohol, especially hard drugs such as heroin. Almost half of the prison population has a history of substance abuse, therefor our government has begun to focus some of their efforts on rehabilitation programs for drug offenders. These efforts involve treatment during incarceration, as well…

today, lethal injection. In my opinion, the death penalty can apply positively to deterrence of crime because it can make people afraid of committing a serious crime. Some people do not care about being in prison, therefore as long as they do not get the death penalty they are okay with prison. It can also stop people from committing a crime because they might think twice about committing the crime since there is a chance they can get the death penalty and die. Another way that the death penalty…

confined to their cells for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day. Within countless jurisdictions, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for only one hour of solitary exercise. Prisoners are only subjected to routine visits from members of the prison staff, while meaningful contact with other people is typically reduced to the bare minimum. This reduction in stimuli is not only on the grounds of quantitative but also qualitative. As the available stimuli and the occasional social contacts are…

in particular corrections officer or employee sexual violence towards female inmates as well as touching on the reverse, inmate on corrections officer violence . The first journal I came across by Pardue, Arrigo and Murphy (2011) discusses and breaks down they types of…