Prison

rate increased every year. The biggest incarceration trend was from 1980 to 2009 when the state and federal rates increased fourfold (Bohm & Haley, 2011). The biggest characteristic of the incarceration population is that 9 out of 10 inmates in prison are males. The majority of the inmates did not graduate high school or have their GED, not married, and were younger than thirty five years old. Studies show that in 2009, the incarceration rate for men was 949 per 100,000 and only 67 per…

range of questions about the treatment of the mentally ill in the justice system and wether prisons are a suitable place for the mentally ill. When a person commits a crime or breaks the law, they are usually taken into custody and sent to jail or prison without being evaluated properly. Instead of being sent to a hospital or a mental health facility to receive the proper treatments, individuals are sent to prisons where they receive little to no help. Due to the deinstitutionalization in the…

Stereotypes in Prison Affect You Stereotypes can leave an impact on juvenile offenders for their entire lives. These labels transform society’s view of inmates, and dehumanizes them, so their identity becomes their criminality. Juveniles’ are later affected from their new persona, preventing them from moving forward in life. Why prisons don’t work, Cuomo’s Pardon Plan for Youthful Offenders, and the memoir Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra draw praise, questions, and concerns; Obama's Plan to Help…

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…

problem that needs to be fixed. “Criminals” are sent to prison to be punished and to be prohibited from committing crimes again. Others that have gone to prison before may discourage others from breaking the law in order to avoid prison. Currently, almost two million people are in prisons and/or in jails and the majority of the people who are put in federal prisons were because of drugs. As for state prisons, the majority were put into prison because of violence. In “Trends in U.S. Corrections”…

The current prison system by large has not fully succeeded in rehabilitating criminals and inmates. Instead, the American prison system produced inmates that were mentally and physically restructured due to a prison atmosphere and substandard treatment from their superiors. The American prison system failed to rehabilitate and properly detain inmates the same moment America continued to regard inmates as irreformable and inferior. It’s caused drastic rises in incarceration rates despite patterns…

punishment when it comes to punishing someone. And with prisons being overcrowded many prisoners have poor living arrangements where there are thirteen people or more in one room. (“Prisoners’ Rights:”). This shows that some prisoners are being denied basic human rights and that the prison is no longer a place where a criminal could do their time and rehabilitate. The United States Government should reevaluate its prison systems to make prisons a place where an inmate can get their life back on…

The job of a Correctional official is to detect danger in prisons. These same officials can also detect opportunity to make changes and improve the system as well. Within local jails, state prisons and federal penitentiaries, they serve as the voice of authority as they ensure the security and well-being of prisoners. The job of a correctional official is to stop a violent conflict and ensure order within the prison walls and also to support opportunities to rehabilitate prisoners.…

on Time” prisoner transport programme which escorts prisoners to and from prison stations to various judicial courts for their matters to be heard. The government spends millions of dollars annually on a prison system while crimes are being brazenly committed, public fear and outrage soar, communities, families and lives of offenders are disrupted. According to prison officials records show over the last 5 years, Prison populations have decreased, however crime statistics determined that crime…

Sheet, December, 2012). However, even with the dramatic increase, women in prison comprise only 7% of the total national prison population (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014). Due to this underrepresentation, this population is often ignored in corrections research resulting in limited theory development and services that are specifically designed for women. The majority of…