Prisons

the CCA and other private prison 's profits were skyrocketing. Private prisons have no incentive to decrease crime because it would decrease their profits. They would even compromise the safety of inmates, staff and the community by minimizing cost of staff, security and services if it meant they would profit from it. The most important thing for private prison corporations is money, they see prisoners as an opportunity to make money and not a human being. Private prisons motives are purely to…

It has been documented that private “for profit” correctional institutions have gained a substantial foothold in the prison landscape. In the 1980s, a qualitative shift in the relation between corrections and private businesses began due to the raise of private prison management. Private prisons-both state and federal-represent just a small slice of the eighty billion dollars spend yearly on corrections (Markowitz, 2016). In 1995, there were less than 30 adult confinement facilities operated by…

Privatized Prison System With the United States being the land of the free, you would expect to see very low incarceration rates, but this isn’t the case. Crime rates in the American metropolis areas are blown completely off of the scale when compared to other countries around the world. Which leads to the question, “ why does the United States incarcerate more people than any other country?” through the duration of this essay I will attempt to reveal and provide possible solutions to the…

To begin with, for-profit prisons can be viewed in two different perspectives, either in a good or bad way. I will begin by stating some reasons on why for-profit prisons benefit the United States. The good thing about for-profit prisons is that of course they are for-profit and make billions of dollars every year. Another way to look at it, is that all the prisoners are in there working hard labor instead of just standing around doing nothing. If prisoners are going to be committing petty…

Imagine making a mistake in your life and being sent to prison only to be exploited in a way that makes you feel like less than a human being. Often the companies that own these prisons overlook the conditions and maintenance in order to keep their profits maximized. Inmates are treated like numbers rather than people, because companies are focused on the number of prisoners they can house rather than the number of prisoners they can rehabilitate. Author Seth Wessler wrote about the harsh…

When somebody in this country has broken the law they put in prison to learn from their mistakes in order to become a well adjusted citizen. This is not the outcome that is taking place at this moment; most people who are in prison are a worst state going out then they were going in. A quote by Gloria Steinem that sums up this idea of the prison system today; he states “ A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space”. Prisons in the United States is not longer helping our society…

Private Prisons: Political and Practical Concerns The United States is a prison society. We have the second highest incarceration rate in the world (second to only the small island country of Seychelles), have almost as many current prisoners as China and Russia put together, and sentence convicts to longer sentences than most other governments (Walmsley, 2015; Human Rights Watch, 2014). We are the only country in the world that sentences minors to life without parole and, up until 2005, the law…

the benefit of others, or so we thought. Private prisons, also known as for-profit prisons, have recently become quite successful at making monetary gain by taking advantage of their prison population. Private prison unlike public ones are not overseen by the states and are instead managed independently by corporations, such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), who are contracted by the government. The main incentive for managing these prisons, is that they give corporations access to…

criminal justice system, prison guards have one of the hardest endeavors. The prison guards are critical individuals and are vital to the criminal justice system. They for the most part work twelve or more hours a day. They risk their life day in and day out, from the time they check in for work. The necessities to become a prison guard can be very difficult. Since the job is risky, the officers must be physically and mentally fit for the position. Numerous individuals consider prison guards as…

Prison reform, the attempt of improving the conditions inside of prisons also to establish a more beneficial penal system or implement auxiliary to imprisonment; assists the prisoners to prepare better for their second life after their second life after their time serving in prison. At the NAACP’s 106th national convention, on July 15, 2015; Mr. President Obama listed a bunch of reasons that the United States should reform the criminal justice system. And some reasons that the government will…