Prison Overcrowding

well prepared for their return into the community. There is a high risk of recidivism among parolees and they are not used to life outside of prison. In the year 2000, forty-two percent of parolees were returned to incarceration (Maruna & Lebel, 2003). Inmates need to deal with many issues once back in society that they did not need to worry about while in prison. They need to find a place live and somewhere to work or a means of legally acquiring income. Finding a job is hard enough, and for a…

attention that these men can just walk out of their cells. In one scene it showed an inmate getting back into his cell by using a combination pad lock. This makes no sense when there is a large amount of inmates who are capable of dangerous activity. Overcrowding is an issue in the video but they find ways to house inmates. In the one cell there was three bunk beds stacked on top of each other. The inmate mentioned that when one has to use the bathroom they leave the room and they respect their…

Canadians are very appalled with; and that's the prison system. Prisons face a lack of necessities and are full of racism. Offenders are given free or subsidized post-secondary education, and given jobs in the community. These prisons don't have adequate training on dealing with inmates who suffer from mental health issues and are incredibly overcrowded. All of these things combined make Canada's prison system the worst part of Canada's legal system. Prisons…

access and opportunity to children and adults of color, especially those who are poor (NASW, 2016). Adequate attention paid to the impact of educational systems that discriminate against students of color and their families. Individuals released from prison should also be able to re-enter society and be given a fair opportunity for…

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.…

California’s overcrowded prisons are a result of one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation . In order to alleviate stress on correctional facilities and to make them efficient, public safety realignment was passed by the legislation in 2011. The act of the realignment is shifting responsibilities of most offenders from state facilities to county facilities, and the possible changing of the duration of sentences. In 2011, the courts found the overcrowding of the prisons to be…

treatment, and this is something that jail time does not ensure. Jail time is supposed to keep an addict away from drugs, but prison is a punishment not help. Although jail time claims to keep them away from drugs, Drug Addicts should be sent to hospitals because addiction is an illness and rehab…

Rehabilitation is imperative with regards to its dynamics that can serve best in improving the mental health in former offenders once they are released from jail or prison. There exists a need for more concerted attention on the rehabilitation of wrongdoer to not become part of the already elevated recidivism rate which is something my anticipated agency will do its best to thwart in its tracks. This could very well be deterred as a result its emergence by way of undertaking a treatment-oriented…

The punishment of prolonged solitary confinement, a rampant practice in American penitentiary institutions, is a form of psychological torture and violates subjected inmates’ 8th Amendment rights. The American prison system was first established as a rehabilitative asylum but has devolved into a degrading institution in which human rights are regularly violated. In order to secure just and humane treatment of inmates within the penal system, prolonged solitary confinement must be abandoned. In…

many cases and not enough judges. “Under incapacitation theory, higher incarceration rates are expected to correlate with accelerated crime” (Stahlkoph). People who are incarcerated have no connection to the outside world, they do not get better in prisons but sometimes it makes them worse. No one is doing anything to help criminals become better for when they return to the outside world. Treating criminals like animals does not leave a positive impact on them, it can make them worse or they are…