Prisons

United States, which deprives massively of freedom mainly to poor individuals, where the possibilities that someone is arrested, convicted and sentenced increase exponentially if that person in addition to being a poor person is black or Hispanic. The prison system is not only designed as a system of crime prevention and control, it operates as a system of racial control that obeys also to an economic model, in itself very profitable that under the facade of a valid social control found a…

violent people who will take advantage of them at every turn. If they ever get to leave those places they will on average leave with a damaged psyche and a bleak future. This is the United States prison system and it is broken. To save the lives of countless people things must change. To create a better prison system and in turn a better society, the United States must reform its laws, fund rehabilitation…

In a recent New York Times article, titled “A 90s Legacy that is Filling Prisons Today” by Timothy Williams, it primarily focuses on people who are serving long sentences for crimes, which are keeping them locked up in prisons for numerous years. Williams writes that the criminal justice system within the United States seems hand out long sentences without the possibility of parole or giving prisoners opportunities for resocialization. Within this cover story, Williams used a real example on how…

In May 13, 2014 youth prisoners’ records indicated that Walnut grove was one of the top worst prisons facilities’ for rape. Walnut grove youth correctional facility, the Numbers of prisoners held a capacity of 1,450 prisoners. The basics was effort were underway to clean up and clear out the facility the article stated, “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts” visited upon children as young as 13 years of age. Evidence was gathered and reported by the Justice Department and had a law…

I believe that children under the age of fourteen should not receive life in prison. When you put a child in an adult court system, that gives them a very high chance of being out into an adult detention facility. Whether the crime be violent or nonviolent shouldn't affect whether or not the child is prosecuted in an adult court system. There are thirteen states in the US that will try children as adults because, “some criminologists warned that young, male, predominately black "superpredators"…

This article explains how prisons have changed over the past few years. It also explains what the government has done to change this. There has been a “mass incarceration” as the author states. This means that there has been a massive increase in the amount of people in prison. Since there has been a spike in these numbers, it has caused an overcrowding of prisons. This causes taxes to raise in order for more facilities to be built. Many liberals are concerned that the minorities are being…

Violence is everywhere. It even takes place within our jails and prisons. Even though incarceration removes a person from the community, it does not necessarily change that person’s behavior or prevent them from engaging in violence. Violence in correctional facilities is very common. This article talks about the percentages of inmates who are arrested for violent behavior, who only served nearly half of their sentence, and those who were recidivists and violent recidivists. These statistics…

are a wide variety of people, which is one of the budget challenging today. However, the correction system is using programing for specific inmates to try and lower recidivism rates. In corrections, we have three different populations which are: prison, probation, and parole. The major population that exists in corrections that has raised is the probation and parole. From the U.S Department of Justice, we saw a decrease in numbers from 2014 to 2015. “At yearned 2015, an estimated 6,741,400…

Social insurance has gotten to be vital to shield individuals from lawbreakers that are viewed as forceful. Yet, some trust that it has created an expansion in the quantity of hoodlums that are in prison or jail. A few, then again, contended that is not the discipline of social security that has brought on the expanded number of crooks imprisoned, however essentially only a sign that our times as nice animals have gotten to be uncommon. Offenders are not needed among different individuals from…

Some of the challenges that prison gangs face are confrontations against other group of gangs who are ready to fight, stab, and even beat you to death. Many prisoners believe that joining a gang will protect them from any harm and dangers they are vulnerable to facing in a prison. Most of the gang members have a tattoo symbol on their body, which represents their group. Gangs always hang out with their partners or other ‘teammates’; they feel like being in groups is the safest way to hang out in…