Prison sexuality

rehabilitate our criminals with education. The statistics are clear that it cost less to educate the criminals than it is to keep them in jail. According to The American Prospect, We, the people spend more than $70 billion annually to place adults in the prisons and jails while there are also 7.3 million individuals needing supervision due to their probation and paroles. If the government made it clearer that there is money out there for the economically challenged, they could have an education…

presents a summation of the findings from prison visitation policies in fifty of the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in the US and in the system of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). It focuses on policy directives, administrative regulations, and facility-specific rules. This study summaries how the visitation policies impact recidivism, how the policies effect inmates and their families’ quality of life. It also reviews the effects on public safety, prison security, identifies…

mandatory sentences, though, she had to serve this time. Mandatory sentences have caused our prisons to become over populated with people who have committed little crimes and sometimes aren’t even bad people, costing the taxpayers a lot more money. The mandatory sentencing laws were mainly created for drug users or distributors. People accused of or guilty of drug offenses are about 60% of the federal prison populations, when in 1986 it was only 38%. (FAMM) Although, in most cases it’s not…

they are actually innocent, they cannot bring that person back to life. If they are sentenced to life in prison, however, and they are found to be not guilty, they are able to be released from prison. It is not an ideal situation but it is better than dying for a crime that a person did not commit. Also, if the person was framed for the crime they are able to move on with their life from prison when they are found not guilty. While there are a few pros on what capital punishment can do,…

pain, it was scary sometimes, involved a lot of loneliness, but in the end brought me to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and gave me a foundation to build my future goals upon. This event included a mixture of drugs, alcohol, parties, and prisons. It started when I was fifteen and my step-father, the man who raised me, passed away. It was at this point that I tried marijuana for the first time. The next week I took my first narcotic pill, while also drinking alcohol. This started off a…

African – American and Latino population. America has five percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Various policies dated back centuries helped to create this problem of mass incarceration. In 1971, our prison population was approximately 500,000 but after President Nixon proclaimed drug abuse was “public enemy number one” the prison population slowly began to increase. Nixon’s policy was aimed to target blacks and hippies. His goal was to have the…

United States of America has nearly 2.2 million incarcerated individuals. As years go by that number keeps increasing, not only because of the crime rate increasing but also from private prison companies making giants of profit from people being incarcerated. According to researches the two major private prison companies received alone three billion dollars in revenue each year. These companies are knows as the CCA and the GEO group. The more people are behind bars the more money these…

Human beings were not created to be alone. Human beings were created for a relationship and to be supported and encouraged by other people. We are supposed to be in relationships with others, which are why prisons and specifically the Eastern State Penitentiary became the first jail to use solitary confinement as a punishment; it is the overall worst punishment. We desire to communicate and interact with other people. According the article, “An Inside Look…

Nearly 3,800 years ago the Code of Hammurabi was created as a guide for punishment for criminal offenders that caused harm to victims, by placing emphasis on revenge for the wronged victims. Punishment was given for the purpose of revenge and a lessened chance of retaliation from the victim to the offender, which contrasts with how punishment is given now. While punishment is still given to criminal offenders that bestow harm to victims, punishment today also includes reformation of criminal…

“The purposes of imprisonment are retribution, deterrence, and incapacitating, not rehabilitation” (Egelko). Prison is to show the wrongdoing of criminal’s actions and illegal activities (rehabilitation vs. retribution). This is all the definition of punishment, is to have shown the consequences of one’s actions and that they should be taken seriously (Kelly). Punishing the offender will result in them thinking twice about committing a crime again, with the possibility of punishment (Kelly).…