Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003

moving parts, and it can be complex. One of the things that nearly everyone thinks of when they hear the term “criminal justice” is jail or prison. The purpose and types of jails, the advantages and disadvantages of private prisons, and the identification of the challenges of prison life are the subjects that will be covered in this essay. Are jails and prisons really necessary? Are they to be considered inhuman? Is it really better for a person to be isolated from the rest of the world? These…

policies which must be in compliance with the latest Supreme Court decisions. Georgia’s sexual harassment policy states that public employers and private employers with fifteen or more employees must meet the terms of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (BLR, 2016). The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office has a zero tolerance policy on all…

On a typical day, prison officials and inmates alike deal with a myriad of problems that include violence and overcrowding; however, transgender inmates face additional issues. Negative effects of isolation, access to healthcare, and stereotyping by legal official are just a few problems that challenge transgender incarceration (Giresi & Groscup, 2006). Most of these issues result from the way effectively all prisons in the U.S. classify and house transgender inmates. Some are placed in male…

way to deter violent and rigorous crimes such as homicides, rape, and treason. Mandatory minimum sentences refer to fixed penalties and laws for offenders who commit particular crimes. These federal laws are set by Congress and do not allow judges to impose a sentence lower than what has been established. These sentences served the purpose of diminishing unlimited judge discretion and consequently lead to the limitation and even elimination of judicial discretion in sentencing. For example, an…

situation. Although I knew that there was violence among prisoners who are incarcerated, I never viewed them as victims, until now. According to Karmen (2013), it was not until 2003 that those who endured sexual assaults while incarcerated were officially rediscovered as victims by Congress when the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed. Given the fact that I work directly with juvenile delinquents, I find myself siding more with the plight of our youth involved in the juvenile systems who…

My Prison Experience I am a convicted felon; it defines my circumstances, not my character. Being a convicted felon brings with it a seemingly insurmountable stigmatization within society, of which I battle through daily. I am not proud of the choices I have made yet I am distressed by the lifetime of consequences I have and will continually endure. Despite these consequences I have not given up hope of a better life to come. With seven years of personal experience, I can assert with confidence…

#5 The U.S. Constitution assumes that it is protecting all individuals through its legislative, which historically has not been true. The legal system wants equality between both sexes, yet uses the difference between men and women to produce unequal results for the latter. The legal system doesn’t recognize these biological differences and how the law affects men and women in different ways due to their gender. In Christine Littleton’s article titled, “Reconstructing Sexual Equality”(1987),…

During the year of 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed. It stated that “Juveniles were five times as likely to be sexually assaulted in adult facilities rather than in juvenile facilities.” There is also a possibility for sexual assault on the juvenile prisoner for the first forty eight hours (In Prison, Teenagers Become Prey). Maurice Chammah discusses an experience he had encountered with a prisoner referred to as John Doe 1. He was only seventeen years old and being sentenced to…

counterpart getting on average a 16 months sentence for the same crime . This could contribute to less instances of sexual violence but somethning that was cited again in Ellenbogen, (2009) was that Amerian prisons still had what seemed like just as big of a problem with instances of sexual violence in prisons when they had a smaller incarseration rate than they do now…

forever. He was being sentenced to life in prison as a part of a crime he committed with his friends. Many young adolescents some as young as 9 , are being forced to go to prison for long periods of time on an almost daily basis. Minor’s should not be allowed to be tried as adults and to be sentenced to life in prison, as an adult environment would be to brutal for them to cope with. In addition, most kids are very susceptible to peer pressure and often act on impulse in large groups.…