Private prison

ethical concerns rise as the US prison system goes through several changes and find ways to refine their system, but with change comes consequences. Prisons use workarounds in order to reduce costs which end up being entirely unethical. Prisons also have a lack of institutions that help prevent multiple incarcerations, prisons use prisoners for cheap labor, and prisons provide too much comforts for the inmates. All these topics spark discussions on the ethics of the prison system. Understanding…

In the correctional system in the United States, inmates are assigned to prisons based on a classifications systems that examines the inmate’s likelihood of attempting to escape, assaults on other inmates or correctional staff, and the likelihood of committing other infractions, such as possessing contraband. Typically, most inmates are placed in general population with minimal security measures. However, there is a population of inmates that are very dangerous that must be assigned to a special…

state or federal prisons or local jails. Throughout the years, the prison system has revolutionized from focusing on custody to rehabilitation, and then shifting into crime control. In today’s prison system, correction facilities have emphasized the importance of incarceration by focusing on crime control. However, this focus on crime control has allowed several states to implement conjugal visits on inmates in prison. Conjugal visits permit an inmate to spend several hours in a private room…

behind bars. One in every one hundred Americans are estimated to be convicted at some point in their lives. Of the millions currently incarcerated, a majority are recidivists, returning to prison for their second, third, maybe even fourth time. Maybe this is why the United States has, by far, the largest prison system globally. With these prisoners consuming so many resources, the government needs to implement programs for prisoner education and cooperatives to alleviate strain on the budget of…

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, defines mass incarceration as an epidemic of racial bias in which a third of black men will go to prison during their lifetimes, mostly for low-level, nonviolent offenses. Republican presidential nominee and businessman, Donald Trump, has not addressed mass incarceration, but has frequently commented on America’s high violent crime rate, especially attacks on law enforcement. In her speech…

with the current prison-based system for drug abusers. Incarceration has little effect on drug users, and recidivism is highly likely due to social isolation. The problems existing pre-incarceration, which led to the drug abuse, exist even after release. Such problems include difficulties with housing, employment, and social activity. These issues mainly exist in impoverished communities and are exacerbated by the current prison system. Nearly half of all inmates in federal prisons are drug…

million people in its prisons and jails on any given day and over five million of its citizens are currently under some form of justice department supervision. These facts make me ask myself, “If the crime rates are decreasing, then why is the prison population increasing?” However, The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question and, shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is “profit.”The Perpetual Prisoner Machine is not simply the prison system…

in state, federal, and private prisons. Studies have shown that the United States has imprisoned more people than any other country. One and a half million more people in the United States have been locked up compared to China, and China has five times greater the population than the United States. The United States holds twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population, but only five percent of the world’s population. The Progressive Labor Party has accused the prison industry of being “an…

Corruption in the Prison System With uncontrolled power, there is always corruption. This is especially true in todays’ prison system. In todays’ prison system, people held in power, such as prison guards, the warden, or even the judge, who rules over the case of a defendant, are a part of some type of corruption, no matter how big or small it is. The biggest problem of corruption in the prison system, is not the corruption itself, but people who can stop it, chooses not to either because they…

and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention.…