Private prison

population and 25% of the world’s prisoners. While prisons did not gain popularity until America was established as a country, the mass incarceration most see today is a relatively recent phenomenon. (Al-Khatib). Mass incarceration is defined as the imprisonment of a large number of people. Although this may seem beneficial, the prison system is very heinous. Ethics are questionable in America’s prison systems. Racial discrimination is very prevalent in prison, along with rape and other…

The United States is a prison society. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world – more than historically harsh societies such as Russia and China; we sentence people to longer sentences than other nations; and we are one of the only developed countries who still practice the death penalty. Our rate of incarceration increased a staggering 700% from 1970 to 2005 (banking on bondage pg 5, 11) and, as of 2013, 1 out of every 110 adults in the USA are in jail or prison, with a further 1 in…

and federal prisons in 2009. There are many different crimes to be dealt with, which means there must be different types of prisons to meet the needs of these inmates. Many people would argue that the sole function of prison is to punish,many progressive criminal justice professionals are committed to rehabilitating offenders and providing them a chance to turn their lives around. The federal prison itselfs is responsible for the care of estimately 210,000 federal offenders. Prisons are ran by…

the decades to the Jim Crow laws and in present day, the prison system. Since the coming of our ancestors two centuries ago, our people have been mistreated and denied basic rights. Prior to watching The 13th, although I was not ignorant of the present issues in society, I was definitely unaware of the severity and depth of institutional racism. While instilling a great fear within me, this film informed me of the great evils of the prison system and has motivated me to action. While watching…

Retribution vs Reformation Beginning in the 1970’s, prison reform in the United States lead to trend of soaring incarceration rates. These reforms, which took place through the 1990’s, led to stricter federal sentencing laws and guidelines, which in turn increased enforcement as well as imprisonment rates. Since 1980, the prison population in the United States has more than quadrupled in size. As of 2015, there were over two million people in prison, which means one out of every one hundred…

the ACCT, as the F2052SH needed to be developed in order to more effectively monitor suicide prevention. The ACCT is a plan which can be opened by a member of the prison staff, if they see them as at risk of suicide or self-harm (Prison Reform Trust, 2012). This was put in place in order to act as a care plan system which will allow prison staff to help to calm a possible suicidal act, build on a prisoners strengths and reduce their vulnerability. It also is in place to help prisoners who may…

The prison system in the United States is broken yet the underlying purpose of prison has remained the same: as it is centered retribution, criminal incapacitation, deterrence, and hopefully rehabilitation. As a nation, we have focused on retribution criminal incapacitation therefore the notion of deterrence and rehabilitation has suffered . We take criminals out of society during their formative years, then release them back into society year or decades later – with the clothes on their…

the people. 6. The Reappeal of the concept of PRIVATE PRISONS I think it it is morally wrong for corporations to profit off the mass incarceration of millions of people in this country. Private prisons cannot be run as well as public ones, because the profit motive will always cause them to cut corners and deprive the inmates. Whether or not private prisons could theoretically be run as well as public ones, empirically they aren’t. Private prisons create a powerful lobby that will influence…

I observed a normal teacher workday from seven-thirty a.m. to two-thirty p.m., and then three hours of afterschool care at West Jackson Intermediate School, located in Jackson County, Georgia. WJIS currently serves grades three-five, and is one of five elementary schools that are served by the county, not including the two city school systems operating there as well. Jackson County is extremely rural, with most of the county dedicated to farm land. The area I was in is slightly more suburban…

an apartment, never a house, as my parents were not comfortable taking an enormous loan to buy a house in a good school district. I started off my schooling going to a public school but later my parents sent me to some of the best private schools. However, in private schools, many students had high-income parents so there were divides between the different groups. I could not take after school curricula because classes were too expensive. I opted out of any school fieldtrips to foreign…