Prisons

massive problem with its prisons. Our prisons have a disproportionate number of minority inmates. There are many underlying factors fueling this imbalance. This research paper will highlight and inspect the social, political, and legal structures that currently contribute to this disparity. I will also address the issues that exacerbate our penal system: generational poverty, the war on drugs, and racial profiling. When you hear of a disparity between minority and Caucasian prison populations,…

One: An expert on page one hundred and twelve from Hassine explained the bureaucracy of prisons. Hassine explains: “You see, all existing prison systems are nothing more than an extension of an entrenched originating prison bureaucracy. Therefore, the potential for change in any prison system is limited by the inherent nature of its founding bureaucracy. And, despite popular belief, contemporary prisons are not new institutions rising atop the ashes of discarded older ones. Actually, they…

Going to prison no more life. Life is defined as developing memories, having fun, learning new stuff and the increase of social life. I don’t think I will even see prison in real life, however if I go to prison I will miss my lifestyle. Such as my families, friends and my mom’s friend baby. I love my family and our lifestyle. Throughout life every individual have some kind of a family. My family is so attached I will also miss my mom, dad and my brother. I don’t think I will live in prison…

Each year children are sentenced life in prison without parole. That is 2570 children sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole according to the American Civil Liberty Union. Children are abused immensely in prison. Some sexually assaulted from the prison guards and the inmates and some just beaten. Children that are sentenced are taken advantage of and can’t do anything about due to their small size and of the word “snitch”. In the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Bryan…

There are currently five times as many people incarcerated now than there were in 1970.The war on drug got out of control, meaning that many nonviolent people wound up in prison. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws led to a throw-away the key culture,with long,cruel and pointless destructive prison times.That has cause our prisons to be overcrowded. “Lots of people are having their life destroy, not because they have to,but because we have chosen to ignore a basic commit to justice and…

with terms to make sure that they don’t commit any more crimes, while they are under the court’s supervision. These terms may or may not include incarceration time, but these instances will vary in each case. Parole is an early release from a long prison sentence. There are many ways to be eligible for parole, and one of them is to behave while incarcerated. Because of the realignment California is going through, they are giving a day of good time for every day that a prisoner behaves. This…

What is the purpose of prison? It is believed that prison serves the purpose to punish criminals for their wrongdoing and then release them back into society, ready to live a better life. Although in today’s times, is more punishment and way less rehabilitation. Most US prisons today are more focused on punishment than rehabilitation. Once a prisoner is discharged from a prison, they will find it difficult to transition back into society. For example, having a criminal record will make it harder…

money by privatizing the prisons. By privatizing the prisons the government will be saving money by not having to take care of all the inmates in the prison. But the responsibility of taking care of the inmates would be transferred from the government to the companies that are running the private prisons. This looks like a simple way of cutting costs but at what expense. “Accountability is diluted to the vanishing point when the government delegates the running of prisons to for-profit…

The Price We Pay for Cheap Labor: Prison Labor Revealed The average American citizen probably doesn’t notice that many of the things they use in their daily lives have been produced by the hands of prison inmates somewhere in the U.S. The same person also probably doesn’t know that often when they call a phone number for technical support for a product they are having an issue with; they could be talking to a prison inmate. This in and of itself really does no one any harm and usually the…

purpose of this study is to compare the depiction of the US justice and prison systems in film and television across different decades and to compare scripted vs. unscripted depictions. This study is exploratory to determine which variables are prominent in the depictions. Key variables that will initially be under investigation are the guard to prisoner interactions, the depiction of segregation, gender roles, and the way the prison system is shown in general. The debates about the justice…