Prison cell

In this justice system, people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes get prison times that are not appropriately scaled to the crime they may or may not have committed. These sentences include prison for life, a sentence that are given to cases of murder, abuse, rape, treason, terrorism, trafficking, severe cases of fraud, and other crimes that can possibly get the death penalty if the states allow it. This is largely the fault of a large drug crackdown during the 70’s and official laws were…

de Saint-Mars (further noted as St. Mars). St. Mars worked at various prisons that corresponded with the transportation of Dauger (“Beyond the Man in the Iron Mask”). He started at Pignerol in 1665 and eventually governed at Exiles, Saint-Marguerite, and finally Bastille in 1708, dying later that year (“Beyond the Man in the Iron Mask”). As Dauger moved from place to place, St. Mars followed him as his apparent keeper for his cell. Dauger had been with St. Mars since Pignerol. When Dauger first…

India is one of the countries with the highest preventive detention, 249,796 people in overpopulated prisons. During police custody, they suffer beatings, sleep deprivation and electro-shock (all of this in violations of their constitutional rights). Subject to degrading and inhuman treatment, it is an example of large-scale human rights abuses. Every day, four people die in both police and judicial custody for these abuses. Many of these deaths could be avoided if the cases were resolved faster…

US Prison Systems Have you ever wondered what life was like locked up behind bars? Most people don’t even give it a second thought; we’re used to having our freedoms and living a normal life. However, life is not that simple for everyone; for not everyone knows how to abide by the rules. Inmates don’t get the same basic rights as we do, that gets taken away from them when they violate the social norms with their deviant behavior. There are a wide number of reasons why people get…

Spending time in a prison cell can change a person dramatically . Sir Thomas Malory the author of Morte D’Arthur did horrible things in his lifetime including theft and rape but while he was behind bars he wrote “king Arthur and the knights of the Round Table” with characters who might have been written from remorse and a wish that he had been a better person. Prison is a place that is meant to punish people who have committed crimes but along with punishment when done justly can teach people…

feeding inmates. Life in prison is not a justifiable punishment because life in prison is not a punishment. The death penalty acts as a deterrent. Many people think that the death penalty costs more than life in prison, well think of it this way what if by some chance one inmate that murder gets out of prison for good behavior they could very well kill again. The death penalty stops repeat offenders. Life in prison is not a punishment. When people think of life in prison some people think it’s…

sentence in prison for murder or so the judge wrongfully sentenced Bj Blaskovich. Angry and resentful about his situation, he decided that he couldn’t spend his life in a cell in prison and Rott away. He began plotting ways to escape from the jail. Blaskovich became good friends with one of the prison caretakers. Her job was to bury any prisoners who died, in a graveyard just outside the prison walls. Whenever a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by all of the prison…

Throughout their sentence, prison inmates endured miserable life before and during the Prison Reform Movement of 1800’s, unlivable conditions, and physical abuse from the guards. “Men rarely become spiritually better by being made subject, through human discipline, to extreme bodily discomforts; these convicts are not made morally better by such treatment as they are subjected to here in the days of bodily weakness and pain” (Lightner 56). Prison Reform Movement from 1870-1930, greatly changed…

illustrates "Panopticism" through a panoptic prison that was created by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. It had a large…

In 1985 a man by the name of Gerald G Gaes Discovered that “prison crowding is often a cause of inmates ill health”. However, have there been enough things implemented in order to decrease that problem since his discovery. As of 2012 personnel have notice that “since 2002 the United States had the highest incarceration rate in the world” (Scommegna). Recidivism a relapse of crime, is one cause of inmates returning to prison and serving more time. On the other hand one can put in place programs…