Prison cell

American history is all over the United States, stretching from coast to coast and border to border, but a very important part of our history is located off the coast of San Francisco. Alcatraz, a former fort, prison, Indian ground, and now a national park has been in America’s history from 1861, where it was a fort, to 2015, where it boasts as one of the nation's most notorious national parks. As any famous thing or person, this small island when from rags to riches. Alcatraz was a small…

Going to school is the same as going to prison. On the first day of being in prison, we all meet up in the main hall and the warden gives us instructions. All of the prisoners are divided up into different halls, and we have a designated prison guard. Some prison guards are nice, but usually they are mean. The prisoners that have been here for a long time can get away with more because they suck-up to the warden and the guards. If we do something bad, we go into the isolation room, where we are…

Are there other types of prisons besides just jail cells? Although there can be physical prisons in life, such as a tangible cell, the word “prison” can also relate to intangible things. There are many instances in which these isolative places are demonstrated. Because there are many kinds of prisons in The Hiding Place, different characters experience different confinements. Of course, some characters in Corrie ten Boom’s wonderful novel go through physical imprisonments. To give a bit of…

Within the Criminal Justice Prison system, there are approximately about 9 different types of offenders. The offenders ranges from the situational offenders, The Career Criminal, The Sex Offender, The Substance abuse, The Mentally ill Offender, The Mentally handicapped Offender, The Offender With HIV/AIDS, The Elderly Offender, and The Long –Term Offender. You would likely to see all different types off offenders being place in the same prison cell and rarely see segregation. Most offender who…

Security in prison translates to security outside of prison. Security within and out of prisons is very critical for communities to flourish, develop, and rehabilitate. The prisons department is important to all Americans. However, the prisons department has always faced the huge task of keeping the most witty and technologically developed members of most societies (criminals) in check. In order to focus on rehabilitating these gifted but errant members of the community, most Canadian and…

offenders within correctional institution. Count is a type of method that’s used for verifying all the inmates that are present in prison. Lockdown keeps all the inmates in prison from leaving their cell or rooms. 4. Sally port is an exit where its highly restricted from inmates to escape to the free world. 5. Contraband is any item that’s forbidden from escaping prison. 6. In a frisk search, inmates bodies would be pat down, if the officers will suspect them hiding something. 7. Strip Search…

used to guide people in and out of the foggy bay for the first 125 years of its discovered life. In 1863, the ‘lower prison’ which is the first prison on Alcatraz was built. The military used it as a prison to lock up war prisoners, which were mostly people who committed treason,…

many escape attempts from Alcatraz, although most ended with the prisoner being caught or killed. With 14 different escape attempts involving 36 different men, its amazing none escaped. In one attempt called the Headstrong attempt by the Bureau of Prisons, a man named Joe Bowers tried to climb a fence at the edge of the island. After refusing to come down, he was shot and eventually died from his injuries. In another attempt, James limerick, Jimmy Lucas, and Rufus Franklin attack and killed an…

million men and women incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, America’s prison population is the largest in the world. Many correctional facilities have come under scrutiny in recent years for separating prisoners from the others as a form of punishment. This practice is known as solitary confinement, and is used throughout the country. The practice began in the early nineteenth century where people were imprisoned in solitary cells as a form of rehabilitation. The results were highly…

Alcatraz Alcatraz was a maximum security prison in San Francisco Bay. The most dangerous and violent criminals, including the famous gangster Al Capone, were sent there. Very few criminals ever escaped because the prison had very high security on an island in the middle of the cold and dangerous San Francisco Bay. Only three had the brains and ability to escape. The prisoners who escaped were Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin. Their escape is one of the most famous in history…