Prison cell

Prisoners in Poland are organized within the prisons by many different categories. These categories include age, gender, past imprisonment record, intentional or unintentional nature of offense, remaining prison sentence time, physical and mental health, degree of threat to others, and the type of offense. This type of specific organization is extremely important. In the United States, prisoners are not organized in such a fashion. Prisoners will either be in general population or special…

correctional institutions and prison operations. There are numeral types of prison that held inmates according on how dangerous they are, or depending on the period of time they have to spend in prison. For example, Maximum Security Prisons, Minimum Security Prisons, Medium Security Prisons, Open Security Facilities, Supermax Prisons, Jails, and Federal Prisons. Even though there are different levels of prisons, inmates are being under…

his speech to the NAACP Obama argues several points surrounding the nation’s inequities and short comings when it comes to its justice system. Obama is particularly concerned with the number of colored community members who sitting in overcrowded prisons. Obama begins to dissect this issue by taking a look at the statistics from the last thirty years which show a dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated, and of those prisoners that belong to the Latino and African American race.…

board of administration will help advise the warden on legal and public safety issues. Staffing will require verse knowledge in the corrections system and how it functions. A college degree will be required to become a correctional officer in the prison. All correction officers must pass a background check to look for any offenses they may have committed. Calls by the sergeant will be made to close family members and friends to ensure they are fit to take care of and be responsible of the…

It was a cold, dark night in the woods. I was on a prison bus to a maximum security prison in a classified location in Russia. All I know about this prison is that it is home to the meanest and dangerous criminals out there and it is located somewhere in the Northern areas in Russia. Our bus was just going through this bridge in the middle of the woods. The windows were blocked up by ice and steam. None of the criminals in this bus wanted to escape because, the survivability rate is very low.…

Why is the Yuma Territorial Prison so important? Many people don't know the prison or the historical events that took place at the prison which is now a museum. The prison helped with multiple things such as helping the great depression, it also helped put away many convicts. The prison was also known to be a state of the ark prison because of its rules and how the prison was cleaned. Also, what most people don't know about the prison is when it went out of business after 33 years, it was turned…

“On any given day, between six and eight per cent of Canada’s 15,000 federal inmates are in segregation cells, and about one-fifth of them will spend more than 120 days there.”(Winter, par. 13) Solitary confinement is not something anyone is willing to talk about because it involves people society deems as outcasts so we sweep it under the rug and ignore the issue. What many canadians do not know is that solitary confinement is classified as a form of torture by the United Nations due to to its…

Inmates:The Struggle of Adapting According to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice about 40% of females and 31% of males in prison are reported to have some kind of disability. This is very significant as disabled inmates struggle the most in adapting to the prison environment, due to the lack of equipment and funding available in the correction system. Prison population has always been a topic in today's political topics. According to the journal for every specific number of…

Once called the silent cell by Dicken’s solitary confinement is now referred to by many different terms; isolation, segregation, special management, restricted housing, security housing units, or the hole to name a few. It has also been used for many different purposes in the prison system. It has been used for reformation, behavior modification, punishment, protection, prison management and control (Shalov, 2009). But no matter what you call it or what role you use it for it still remains to…

Imagine being a child who has been sent to his room or perhaps to a 'timeout' chair in the corner. You are alone in one space for an hour or two with nothing to do. Think about staying in a cell just a little bit bigger than a king-sized bed almost all day and night. How does that make you feel? Now, take that and imagine yourself being forced to stay there for years. Solitary confinement, a method of punishment or protection for criminals, has been in use throughout human history. However, upon…