Prison cell

contraband. These items can be very dangerous to fellow officers as well as the inmates. Like the article states, "In prison, contraband can mean life or death." (Crohsc 2014) Cell Phone in particular is one of the few but many that can be harmful to society and the correction institution. Cell Phones are dangerous to correctional officers because it can cause chaos inside of a prison. They can be used to call members of a gang who was once incarcerated, so they can smuggle in drugs. This…

When people hear the word penitentiary they automatically think prison, but there is a difference in the two institutions. Penitentiary was a deep and place criminal went as a form of punishment for a crime someone committed. A penitentiary was considered secular and spiritual. It was a place of human punishment instead of physical punishments that was used in other societies. A penitentiary was an idea, or set of principles, opposed to an actual physical institution with shape and form. The…

How To Stop Prison Escapes There were two prisoners, David Sweat and Richard Matt, that had escaped from a New York Prison in Clinton. They accomplished it by, using hacksaws that were hidden in meat and sawing through the cells to the catwalks behind their cells. Then David Sweat used a saw to cut into fellow inmate Richard Matt’s cell to the same catwalks. They then had weeks to look through the maze of tunnels that were hidden below the prison. The men had one obstacle in their way, a cement…

In today’s prison systems in the United States, prisons are being flooded with an extremely large amount of new inmates resulting in prisons in the United States becoming more and more overpopulated. The problem of prison overpopulation is only getting worse and becoming a major issue for the United States prison systems. Federal prisons are already 41 percent over their rated capacity and there are still inmates pouring into the prisons every day. There are several problems with prison…

unable to relate to the conditions that surround inmates who reside in prison. While the bulk of society can only imagine what it is like to be imprisoned, over two million individuals incarcerated in the United States live this reality daily. The convicted find themselves serving prison sentences for crimes ranging in severity and corresponding lengths of time. While there are generally three different security levels of prisons, the lives of the inmates may be typically similar concerning…

construction in 1878, Folsom Prison located in California came to be due to a decision made by California legislature in 1858. The decision to build a new prison was made because of “ serious overcrowding in San Quentin”( “Folsom Prison Museum Brochure” 1). With being one of the first maximum security prisons in the Nation, Folsom has a rich and impeccable history. In the beginning it had 1,700 cells, the walls were approximately 8’ by 4’ in size. The doors on the cells were solid iron with…

military prison. In 1909, most of the fortress was destroyed and new prison was built called “The Rock”. This work of building new prison was done by the prisoners themselves. Body Once upon a time, Alcatraz Island was home to the most secure federal prison in America. It measures about 22 acres and up to about 121 feet above sea level. This island was originally developed to house the first West Coast Lighthouse. Between 1934 and 1963, the Alcatraz Island became a maximum security prison.…

One of the most well known of all prisons in America is Alcatraz. Located 121 feet above sea level, in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, this prison sits on only 22 acres of land. Alcatraz was nicknamed “the rock.” The Rock held some of the most notorious criminals, murderers, and gangsters in the United States. Some of these people include Al Capone, Robert “the Bird man of Alcatraz” Stroud, and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Alcatraz is such a famous prison in America’s history because of its…

experience at the prison was very insightful and interesting to say the least. I learned things I never knew went on in a prison like how a good amount of the inmates had televisions in their cells or that they could purchase tablets to download music to by using a program called JPay which is a service including money transfer, email, video visitation, parole, and probation payments to inmates throughout 35 states. I was also very shocked to see in front of a few inmate’s cells that they had…

Since I am only using one book as a reference for this essay, the information given will cover mostly his years spent in prison. Stanley grew up and lived in South Central Los Angeles (Williams,13). When Stanley was young, growing up in his neighborhood, most of his friends had older siblings that had spent time in and out of prison. They would talk about their experiences in prison as a place they would like to back to, a place where boys turned into men. They would glorify the experience,…