Prison films

The movie “Prison State” follows the story of a town, Beecher Terrace, in Kentucky. The town spends approximately $15 million a year on their prison system (______). The film follows the stories of 4 individuals Christel, Charles McDuffie, Demetria, and Keith Huff. Christel is a 15year old teenager diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD. She was faced with a charge of truancy after neglecting to attend school. Michelle Alexander explains how bad the incarnation rate is in Beecher Terrace by…

release from prison. That date seems to be approaching quickly due to the fact that Eva’s son was a minor at the time of the crime, therefore a life sentence does not await him. Kevin’s destructive behaviour climaxing with his mass murder is then a “desperate attempt to provoke hate in his mother in order to trust that one day he will have love” (Valdrè, 2014, p. 158). That path that at first seems impossible to achieve, can be then advocated by Kevin and Eva hugging each other in prison,…

count of Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering. In 2004, Mese died in prison from a stroke. Adrian Doorbal who helped out and was Lugo’s best friend also received the death Penalty. "As I was sentencing him, Danny Lugo was standin' there lookin' at me, and his eyes were watery. Noel [Adrian] Doorbal, on the other hand, he was joking. He was turning around to his girlfriend, and making faces like a goofball," said Ferrer (Troy Roberts). The film and real events both had the same sentencing for the…

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King.The novella follows Andy Dufresne as he is imprisoned in Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. The story follows Andy's imprisonment as he deals with violence, degradation learns how to work the crooked prison system, and never loses hope of freedom despite the life sentence that stretches ahead of him with no hope of parole. At first glance this novella falls far from a similarity of Mark Twain classic…

The Frontline video documentary, “The Released,” is a follow-up film of Frontline’s “The New Asylum” which is a documentary about how correctional facilities became a dumping ground for our society’s mentally ill criminals after state psychiatric hospitals closed down in the 1970’s. The movie, “The Released” however, focuses on what happens to people with chronic mental health issues after being released from prisons and jails. The film shows us that most of these mentally ill inmates end up…

showing the dates the interviewees were referring to. The only mention of dates came from the interviewee themselves and this happened rather quickly. If the film would have provided a more detailed explanation of the dates that were happening, it would have been much easier to follow and understand. Due to the lack of clearly available dates, the film lost some of its momentum in terms of teaching the viewer what was happening throughout the troubles. While it is much more difficult and time…

re-offending rate of prisoners each and every year coming out of the prison system. This not only is a growing trend in the United States, but a trend that we as a society need to look at and fix. According to an article in USA today: “the Pew Center on the States found that slightly more than four in 10 offenders return to prison within three years, a collective rate that has remained largely unchanged in years, despite huge increases in prison spending that now costs states $52 billion…

incarcerating their citizens per capita, yet not treating them as inhumane as the prison systems in Latin…

States. Furthermore, the United States has the largest prison population in the world at a cost of 80 billion dollars per year, paid for by the taxpayers. The film Three Strikes Law, states in the 90’s the United States saw violent crime rise at epic proportions in the big cities across the country. The United States had already been locking up these criminals, but the criminal justice system would allow violent criminals to be released from prison early. Most of these career criminals were…

However, there is ample evidence form research to the effect that over 50% of persons who are committed to prison especially as first offenders go ahead to commit other crimes. To this extent, this objective of the prison system appears to be lost. (Levitt, 2005) Additionally there is no evidence to the effect that those who do not commit crime in society are law abiding because of the fear of prison walls. It cannot be disputed that all persons of lucid minds would not be readily willing to…