Prison sexuality

the number of incarcerations in America has more than tripled and the amount the nation spends to maintain these facilities is six times the annual budget for our education system (Gopnik, 2012). Due to overcrowding and the high density of these prisons, certain inmates cannot be held in the general population…

The definition of justice is subjective. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines justice as “the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments” and “the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law or equity.” Justice is the upholding of what is morally and legally right in the eyes of the law and those that create it. It is the pursuit of truth. And as much…

All kids are in charge of their actions but is it irresistible to give them life in prison. If we give kids life how are they to learn from their mistakes. All we do when we put them in jail for life is killing them. We shouldn’t waste perfectly could lives when there are circumstances that interfere with their learning. Kids should not be put in jail because the system is failing the kids who are getting abused, families influencing kids of making bad decisions and lastly kids brains are not…

Frequent exonerations of innocent parties affect the entire legal system in a myriad of ways. Perhaps no challenge is greater to the integrity of the American criminal justice system than that of the conviction of innocent individuals. Since the1990’s when DNA evidence became more widely known and accepted, a great deal of attention has been focused on wrongly condemned individuals and their post-conviction exonerations. In many of these cases, defendants had been sentenced to death and were…

but also protect the community that they service. The growing problem that has occurred is the ability to facilitate these individuals in state prisons. Although these prison contain some of the most serious and violent offenders our society knows, it also caters to less detrimental criminals in our society that has contribute to the growth of the prison population in each state. In…

Throughout the course of history, human beings have seemed to have a yearning for their fair organization in their communities. However, as communities evolved into societies there seemed to be a clear division amongst citizens: the law abiders and the criminals. Different societies and cultures eventually assigned punishments to crimes committed that seemed fit to the circumstances, ranging from theft to murder. Many would agree progressive countries in today’s modern world have modified…

“Scared straight!” was a program design by the prisoners of Rahway State prison in New Jersey to aid prevent juveniles from continuing a life of crime that would lead them to eventually enter a prison system. The film shows the program in action with seventeen adolescents and follow up interviews with the juveniles and the inmates who ran the program, twenty years after the event. The “Scared Straight” program depicted a high success rate, but it did not take into account outside factors.…

incarceration laws to address the problem of mass incarceration of our citizenry. Apparently, some of these efforts have been successful and other not so. In the next few paragraphs I will be analyzing the article “Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers?” Within this analyzation I will give my readers my general reaction of the article. I will also touch on what is being done across our nation, as well as what I believe can be done to help or fix the problem. And lastly I will state…

project started in 1822. Although Eastern State Penitentiary’s forms of punishment and way they ran their prison were thought of revolutionary, they have negatively affected how prisons are run today. The idea for…

For the small percentage of women of color who end up in prison for violent offenses, this is usually due to domestic violence within homes or relationships, in which these women must physically defend themselves and their children from their attackers. “Socioeconomic status and cultural background significantly influence the impact of domestic violence,” and determines who is more susceptible to becoming victims and who has access to protective resources (Solinger et al. 265). Often times,…