Prisons

The degrees to which prison populations are growing suggest great encouragement towards finding alternative forms of punishment and the processing of criminals. Crimes that are committed by an individual and require a sentence within a prison demonstrate how the court systems manage these cases on a daily basis and in severity, sentence individuals to separate them from society. With these sentences, the overall purpose is to punish to deter future crimes from occurring. However, there are…

Now with these many problems occurring in prisons are affected by the weak economy. Such as, prisoners are not getting fully educated with the low income of the prisons. Due to the crowded prisons, more money is distributed to food, water, clothing, and other essential needs. The excessive innovations of more cell building leads to unnecessary spending. If prisons had a set number of inmates less money would be spent…

The movie “Prison State” follows the story of a town, Beecher Terrace, in Kentucky. The town spends approximately $15 million a year on their prison system (______). The film follows the stories of 4 individuals Christel, Charles McDuffie, Demetria, and Keith Huff. Christel is a 15year old teenager diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD. She was faced with a charge of truancy after neglecting to attend school. Michelle Alexander explains how bad the incarnation rate is in Beecher Terrace by…

Most of the prisons in America doesn't believe in that incarcerated inmates should not be treated as slaves while serving their time in prison. Which is better known as prison labor? Therefore, it wouldn't really have a positive effect and a positive outcome for the prison. For example, if an inmate with life without parole and doesn't do his job duties. What can really be the punishment that would inspire the inmate to get his work done? Most of the time many inmates don't give the officers…

Prisoners in Poland are organized within the prisons by many different categories. These categories include age, gender, past imprisonment record, intentional or unintentional nature of offense, remaining prison sentence time, physical and mental health, degree of threat to others, and the type of offense. This type of specific organization is extremely important. In the United States, prisoners are not organized in such a fashion. Prisoners will either be in general population or special…

The article that I chose to read was “Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness is the U.S prisons: A Challenge for Medical Ethics” by Metzner and Fellner. The main point that is consistent throughout the article is that solitary confinement has negative psychotic effects on prisoners especially those with pre-existing mental illness. These effects including anxiety, depression, and even paranoia as would be expected of being confined in a small cell completely alone. In the article it strongly…

are] 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States (Blake, 2016). This represents a growing number of inmates and overpopulated prisons. However, the focus is on the administrative functionality of the criminal justice system and the nature of the treatment inmates are subjected to by authorities in prison. We are quickly introduced to a stereotype about prison officers when Chapman first enters the reception area of Litchfield Penitentiary. The receiving officer is unaccommodating of just…

Prison Industrial Complex The prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex have a similar relationship, they generally support one another. They are both linked by military, corporation, and the government which are growing stronger (86). The prison industrial complex focusses on control, to control the low-income people and using them for profits. The prison industrial complex is building more prisons, so they can keep profiting out of the prisoners because they are being used…

cost-effective way to reduce the immense financial and executive affliction of prison. It is also a good alternative way to reduce prison crowding. It is also a practical way to dispense with a great number of petty crimes or ‘’normal’’ such as shoplifting and other minor property crimes, vandalism, simple assaults etc. Not only probation gives this opportunity but also other community services which serve as an alternation to prison. (Voigt, 1994, pg 549) Parole, on the other hand, is the…

finally get closure in knowing the person(s) who killed their loved one will be punished for their crime in killing. Giving these criminals prison sentences over the death penalty lets…