Prison cell

bars in prison is something that one would not like to imagine for themselves. While outsiders view the scandalous cases that play out every day in our courts, they rarely think about what happens to the convicted person when found guilty. Unless a person has a close relationship to a convicted person or gains the rare access into the world of the unknown, he is highly unlikely to have any idea what happens in everyday life in prisons across America. For those that have not served time in…

House arrest is a type of imprisonment that requires guilty parties or associates for the situation with pre-trial detainment to stay inside their home unless they are occupied with affirmed exercises, for example, work, volunteering, religious love or getting therapeutic consideration. The benefits of house capture guarantee consistence with court orders by steady electronic checking and unannounced visits, drug tests and liquor tests by consistence officers. This decreases the chances of…

and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention.…

looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were released and how many years they were in prison until they were released To start off Randolph Arledge was an ordinary man…

A Time Out is all you Need Imagine that you are sitting in a jail cell with nothing but some books and dictionaries. You decide to pick them up, read them and copy them down because what else are you supposed to do in a boring, old jail cell. Do you believe this would change you? Do you think it would spark interests that you didn’t know that you possess? In “Literacy Behind Bars”, by Malcolm X the author tells us about his experience of being in jail and how it manifestly changed his…

Canada and Europe. Prisons in America are so overcrowded, 95% percent of inmates are released, often bringing the violence back into society (Chamberlin). In the United States prisons and jails now holding 2.4 million inmates roughly - the highest incarceration rate of any free country (Petersilia). When the inmates are released and they have no jobs they have nowhere to go so this is a big factor in repeat offenders, but those who go through intensive drug treatment programs in prison are less…

Canadian prisons have been rising at a steady rate; in Ontario alone assaults in prison totaled to 2,762 in 2016, an increase of thirteen percent from 2015. All the issues surrounding the Canadian prison system reveal a prison reform must happen. Current issues with the Canadian prison system are overcrowding, low rehabilitation rate, violence and poor medical attention within the prisons. Despite the issues with the Canadian prison system privatization is not the correct change prisons need to…

adults if they committed serious crimes. Many of these young adults who have been sent to jail have changed for the worse. Life in prison is not meant for the undeveloped brain…

alternative to prison provided by the court as a form of punishment for offenders that do not pose a severe threat to society. After reviewing the file of Kris, Robert Donovan, a Jurisville probation officer, has suggested severe probation. Probation officers examine the record of an individual and make recommendations to the court. Severe probation refers to direct supervision by a probation officer that is organized and designed to reroute the offender from going to prison. Criminals sent to…

and visible. On the other hand, Foucault discusses Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon , architecture with a tower at the center from which it is possible to see prisoners in the cells, represents the way in which discipline and punishment work in modern society. Guard in the tower is not visible though. Visibility of people in the cells is like a trap, and it creates surveillance and ensures functioning of power .…