Prison cell

Privatized Prison System With the United States being the land of the free, you would expect to see very low incarceration rates, but this isn’t the case. Crime rates in the American metropolis areas are blown completely off of the scale when compared to other countries around the world. Which leads to the question, “ why does the United States incarcerate more people than any other country?” through the duration of this essay I will attempt to reveal and provide possible solutions to the…

system, their social position is unlikely to ever recover, compounding any previous disadvantages. The social descriptors of those who go to prison might as well be the textbook definition for "cheated by life": poor, young people of color that are subjected to increased surveillance by police account for a large portion of those incarcerated in the "prison boom". As these people are often raised in environments that are prone to high crime rates, they receive more attention from police; hence a…

mental disorders while in jail or prison. The more severe psychologically harm seems to be inflicted to those in solitary or in the maximum-security prisons which isolate the prisoner without books, weights or exercise nor visitations. They are fed their meals through a slot in the cell which has a bunk and a toilet of some kind (do they have a sink?). Those that have showers are mostly turned off. One hour of exercise sometimes alone is allowed outside the cell each day. The physical and…

I have always thought I was for the death penalty. I feel if you do something horrible, you don’t deserve to live, and I always assumed it would cost us less money than having someone incarcerated for the rest of their life. Additionally, prisons seem to be an ineffective in providing anything meaningful or beneficial to society. A few years ago in a public speaking class I decided to speak on the death penalty. It was a persuasive speech and when I started I assumed I would be for it. By the…

Alcatraz was a maximum security prison that operated on an island near San Francisco from 1934 to 1963. It is a popular tourist attraction today, but it was once known for housing some of the nations most notorious and dangerous criminals such as Al Capone. “The Rock”, as it is sometimes refereed to, was closed down because its expenses of operation became to high. The Rock has a long, dark history as it was also used as a military prison from the 1850s to 1933. It is reported that no inmate…

Port Arthur was established in 1830 as a timber station and a prison settlement for repeat offenders. While transportation to the island colony from the mainland ceased in 1853, the prison remained in operation until 1877, by which time some 12,000 men had passed through what was commonly regarded as the harshest institution of its kind in the British Empire. Punishments included incarceration in the Model Prison, a separate building from the main penitentiary, where inmates were subjected to…

Inmates spend 23 to 24 hours a day in their single, 60 X 80-sq.-foot, high security barren cells with minimal access to educational, religious, or other self-help programs (p.123). Inmates in administrative segregation do not know if they will be transferred back to general population or will remain locked down until they finish their entire sentence…

San Quentin State Prison in California occurred. The method of execution was hanging. On December 2, 1938 the first execution by lethal injection occurred. This method was implemented to replace hanging (cdcr.ca.gov). By 1967, there had not been any executions for 25 years and it was decided in February of 1972 by the California Supreme Court that the death penalty was considered cruel and unusual punishment. 107 inmates at San Quentin State Prison were changed to life in prison with the…

inmates. As time goes on, will prisons be able to solve or reduce future violent crimes from the 1,163,146 violent crimes that…

pretended he was crazy to get rejected. He then turned to robbery, but he and his ‘gang’ were caught, and Malcolm received ten years sentence in prison.” (Davies 34-41) “Malcolm X and Shorty Jarvis were assigned to the Charlestown State Prison. This…