Prison Overcrowding

Rachel Herzing defines "Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) as, “a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political ‘problems’” (Herzing). She means that the prison industrial complex protects the people who gain control through structural privileges. It helps the government, industry, and people who have power in our society. This unequal power…

security level in this jail was as high as any maximum security prison. For an old facility, the security features…

In today’s criminal justice system it is very important that prisons, jails, probation, and parole run smoothly and correct. Throughout this summary I will go over each one in depth on how they are run and what makes each one run smoothly to get the job done. Also what issues each one faces on a day to day bases. To begin every prison has the same security levels which are psychological skills and intelligence evaluations. “Evaluations and review determine the most appropriate security…

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…

American prisons approach on deterrence and rehabilitation of the inmates prove to be inefficient. This conclusion is reached by viewing the rate of deterrence from crime after being sentenced. Also observing minimal sentencing procedures reveals the invalid claim of deterring crime. These sentences have shown to be a waste of public taxes, and an unfair punishment put upon several people. The conditions in the prisons themselves do not allow the full ability to rehabilitate. Without the proper…

the benefit of others, or so we thought. Private prisons, also known as for-profit prisons, have recently become quite successful at making monetary gain by taking advantage of their prison population. Private prison unlike public ones are not overseen by the states and are instead managed independently by corporations, such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), who are contracted by the government. The main incentive for managing these prisons, is that they give corporations access to…

The United States prison system is designed to punish criminals. While prison has many advantages, the disadvantages to the lives of the weigh heavily on American society. In America, several prisoners are living in horrible environments, some comparing their environment to third world countries. There are too many prisoners and not enough room. This country needs to regulate or solve this situation of overcrowding. Due to overcrowding some prisons are producing conditions so unhealthy it is…

2004 to 2014, the number of detainees in Brazilian prisons increased by 67.5 percent, which is around 564,000 people. If you count the citizens that are under house arrest, the total soars to around 711,000 people, making it the third largest in the world (“The Barbarism of Brazilian”). While the population of Brazil has increased by a little over 30 percent, “that of its prisons and police cells has almost quintupled,” causing a severe overcrowding problem (“Welcome to the Middle”). These…

The Goal of Private Prisons: A Scheme for Profit The operations of private prison show that their success is dependent upon housing the maximum number of inmates. In order to fill beds at private facilities the private corporations lobby for stronger drug and immigration laws along with longer sentences to accompany these laws. These new laws result in the United States having five percent of the world population but housing twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. (Liptak, 2008) The…

increasing number of prisoner in last two decades. Prisoner overcrowding is one of the key contributing components to poor jail conditions in state(Gottschalk, 2010) . It is likely to be the greatest single issue confronting prison systems and its results can even under the least favorable conditions for any person or prisoner to live in, the best case scenario is to detainment facilities from satisfying their legitimate function and prevents prison from fulfilling their…