Prison

What is the purpose of a prison? Is it to protect people from dangerous individuals, and to help bring justice to victims? Do prison serve a separate purpose other than to punish wrongdoers? For instance, is it a standard for prison to have a rehabilitation program to help prisoners integrate within society? All of these questions pose a significant concern over the status quo of the current prison system in America. Historically, America’s prison system is founded under the premise to provide…

States prison system, mental health problems among prisoners are somewhat high. Some like to think that prisons are now becoming institutions for those with mental health problems. Hearing these statements and thoughts from others makes many feel that people need all the help they can get with such a strong disability, not to be thrown away and locked up in prison. The next few paragraphs and pages are going to be a brief investigation of the mental health problems among those in prison.…

In America, thousands of teens are sentenced to life in prison before they are legally adults. At this age the human brain is incapable of coping with the violence and other complex events that may occur in prison. During a juvenile’s time in prison, it is likely that they will begin to mingle with negative figures and begin to look up to them. The downside of this process is the entity not having a chance to change and become a better person. Teenagers are still developing their minds,…

of the worst” inmates are kept in solitary confinement, which is, granting the prison staff the authority to have complete “control” over an individual, in other words restricting their access to freedoms of basic life (Mears and Watson, 2006, p.232-270) This particular system of confinement is achieved and operated to its full potential in what’s known as a supermax prison. A little over twenty years ago supermax prisons were uncommon and unheard of in America. A system that specifically…

Prison overcrowding is one of the key contributing factors to poor prison conditions around the world (Williams and Arrigo, 2012). It is arguably the biggest single problem facing the prison systems. The consequences can be life-threatening at worst and at best when preventing prisons from fulfilling their proper function. Data from 2016, suggested that the number of prisoners exceeded official prison capacity in at least 115 countries (Lawaspect, 2018). On the other hand, 51 countries had a…

300 state, federal, and privately run prisons in the United States (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Depending on the location in the U.S., the state prison system ranges from nearly fifty percent under maximum amount of prisoners allowed to almost fifty percent over the maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The federal prison system in total is running approximately forty percent over maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The fact that both state and federal prison systems are overcrowded is a direct…

When discussing the prison system, you usually talk about men’s prisons, how people of color are subjected to being incarcerated more often than white people, and the school to prison pipeline. I’m not trying to say that these topics aren’t valid (which they are), but more so about the fact that we don’t usually acknowledge what incarcerated pregnant women are and aren’t entitled to and the problems they face. Though being in prison isn’t the best thing, no matter who you are, we can agree…

harsh physical conditions of the prisons, ii)the violence which results from the inmates and iii)the tiredness which results from their difficult work. These sources of stress have had great impacts not only on the correctional officers but also to the inmates. First, most prisons are always dirty, noisy, crowded, and has many other unfavorable conditions. These many unfavorable conditions experienced in prisons have interfered with the well-being of these prisons' staffs causing great stress to…

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…

In the excerpt given from the “Debtor’s Prisons”, the author, Samuel Johnson is very unhappy with how prisons are being used to convict people unable to pay their debts. Samuel Johnson does not believe so many people should be thrown in jail so lackluster. He states that the men in the prison are “groaning in unnecessary misery” and are “pitied for a moment… and then forgotten.” Not only does he believe these people shouldn’t be imprisoned, he also believes that there is not enough enough…