Prison cell

troublemakers among his classmates or neighbors, never the ringleader in the mild mischief caused by his friends, never the type predicted to have an ending in prison. However, when Paul Marshall was arrested, not many people…

the number of incarcerations in America has more than tripled and the amount the nation spends to maintain these facilities is six times the annual budget for our education system (Gopnik, 2012). Due to overcrowding and the high density of these prisons, certain inmates cannot be held in the general population…

Zanotti shoes, and Louboutins could not compensate for what I had done throughout my lifetime because after all, it did not make me a better person. Money. The reason I lived but the reason for my death. 1 month, 3 days, 5 hours, and 23 minutes since prison became the end of my life. Everything in my life stopped on September 17th, 2015 at 10:30 am. My court case had been in progress for 3…

rights given to them. Prisoners must have several basic rights because they cannot fend for themselves while behind bars. When prisoners go into the prison system they give up their privacy and fundamental rights, but still remain with their basic human rights. Inmates who enter the prison system they lose their rights to privacy. Anyone and their cell can be searched at any moment…

control, food service, sanitation and hygiene, medical and health care, inmate rights, work programs, educational programs, recreational activities, library services, records and personnel issues” (212). The ACA also sets standards dealing with crowding, cell size and recreational space (212). The reliance of government agencies and private contractors on the ACAs standards promotes a close working relationship between these entities (212). This reliance shows the ability of private…

For those who didn’t know what the punishment for some crimes, they now should be afraid since death penalty is looked high upon. Those waiting for the death sentence will do any and everything to get out of being killed. It’s not about being in prison for life, it’s more about losing their…

building within a male prison. Women had to deal with sexual abuse, physical abuse, lack of services, and inadequate privacy. Prison guards were usually male because the characteristics of a prison guard were to mean and strong something society thought women lacked. Male guards had little understanding of female offenders and therefore led to brutal punishment. In 1873, the first all-female prison in the Unites States opened up and was identified as the Indiana Women’s Prison. Helped fixed the…

his parents that doesn’t make him a ”serial killer “ (Jenkins 49). Not every kid who commits a crime will grow up to be a criminal. Researcher Paul Thompson found that there is a huge loss of brain tissue during the teens year he states that, “brain cells and connections are only being lost in areas controlling impulses, risk-taking, and self control” (Thompson 47). Teen brains aren't fully developed, with the right help and support, youth offenders…

explains the prison system that has formed today. This article describes the harsh labor and suffrage many slaves/prisoners faced during the 1800’s. In addition, the United States became a modern industrial capitalist economy due to cheap labor cost and available resources. In regards to the “new south and gilded north there were many distinct difference among the two. The southern system stood out for the intimate collusion among industrial, while the north was only different due to sale of…

it. According to current U.S. government surveys, one in ten Americans use marijuana regularly (2). The visual chosen has a media of ink and paper. The genre of this visual is a poster for a campaign ad displaying a drawn artwork of a male behind prison bars. The artwork portrayed in this campaign ad is stressing that marijuana users are not criminals and action to get involved in reforming marijuana laws is needed. This campaign ad is most likely intended to attract American citizens who are…