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originally enacted in 1994 in California.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.…

A Man Reborn They say that hell has several levels. I have no doubt in my mind that the Texas prison system is one of those levels. Jon Wayne Nobles went to prison plagued by his own demons, and what better way to exercise them than by joining the Dominican Order of Preachers? That must have worked for him too, because Nobles is even able to show compassion and learn forgiveness, which he shows Earle before being executed. I have no doubt in my mind that before Nobles dies, he was re-habilitated…

to hear details about prisons and jails, everything I heard made it seem like it was not such a bad place considering what their purposes are. By word of mouth you hear things like, “Three meals a day, a place to live and shower, it cannot be that bad, right?” After reading this book, my thoughts about what it would be like and how life would be if I was living in jail or prison changed dramatically. Pete Early discusses in great detail how mentally ill inmates’ lives in prison are not all that…

Throughout the novel of “The Damage Done” Warren Fellow’s experiences and hardships he finds himself faced with cause on-going anguish both mentally and physically. These aspects of his unjust life in prison and the events preceding convince Warren into believing that his punishment was not justified, or even remotely equal to his crimes that led to his arrest. There are multiple excerpts from book that can confirm and justify his beliefs of unjust incarceration. One of them includes a quote…

protest to California's use of indefinite solitary confinement and the cruel punishment it ensued. Although the strikers failed to reach their central goals they did bring focus nationally and internationally to the troubling aspects of a failing prison system. The hunger strike involved approximately thirty thousand prisoners and lasted a period of sixty days ending on September 5, 2013. At which time protest leaders released a statement “ Our goal remains: Force the powers that be to end…

Mass incarceration’s effects no doubt reach beyond the prison walls and impact the family. There are multiple negative effects out there impacting the families of the incarcerated, whether they be of blood relation or simply friends. One such theories that can impact the families of the incarcerated is called Bandura’s Theory of Modeling and Imitation. Bandura examined the learning processes of children, and if watching adults and how they interact can have an enduring effect on how children act…

“Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population” (188). Prisons are not equipped with doctors, physiatrists or medications for the treatment and care these people need, an issue usually followed with violent reactions from poorly coping mentally ill. The cruel incarceration of the mentally ill decreases their ability to recover from the trauma they have survived and…

for-profit prisons in the United States, which constitutes 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population (Carson 13). A private prison incarcerates individuals using a third party company that is contracted by a government agency. The company is paid monthly based on the amount of prisoners in the facility or for each space available, whether occupied or not. The shift from public to private prisons was not instantaneous; two major factors aided in the creation and expansion of for-profit prisons.…

documentary film “13th” directed by Ava DuVernay is an interesting look at the prison system, how and why Black and Hispanic people make up the majority of the prison population and how the problems within the interconnected political, judicial, and prison system have grown and changed over time. It discusses topics such as the death penalty, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the dehumanization of prisons and about how labeling individuals and groups and criminals effects…

Abstract More than half all inmates who commit suicide in prison are between twenty-five and thirty-four years of age, often being single with no job or family support. I feel that by focusing in on just those demographics alone and hiring jailhouse psychologist could help in the factors of jailhouse suicide. When a jail or prison inmate has been deemed a suicide risk for any reason, it is standard procedure to take steps to keep that inmate safe. This may include placing them in an isolated…