Private prison

Prison has many values in teaching prisoners the virtues of labor; softening the pain of confinement; their moral regeneration; enabling them to run commercial enterprise with cheap labor, or at least to keep down their cost; punishment and deterrence maintain prisons building public works; control and discipline. From time to time authorized inquiries have been held into prison work or the whole prison system; the subject of work for prisoners has been carried along and swirled about by the…

*Views over private prisons can range anywhere from constitutional private industry to illegal, draconian atrocities. The controversy over private prisons in the United States has been raging since 1983, when Corrections Corporation of America [CCA] received its first contract from the U.S. Department of Justice (“CCA - Our History,” 2013). Supporters of private prisons believe they save taxpayers money, but opposers claim that private prisons consistently have worse conditions than their public…

Americans in private prisons that are being controlled and operated by corporations should be immoral and illegal. American’s freedom should not be for sale to make a profit. Imprisoning humans at record levels should be a moral issue along with an economic one. Especially when so many hard working Americans are…

The privatization concept has been used as a solution to manage the congestion of prison population at a lower cost. However, the results of this approach fail to meet up with humanitarian and social problems which are present in these private facilities. One could argue that the private prisons rather perpetuate the vast increase of prisoners (Anderson, 2009). Nevertheless, this does have a negative impact on the care of these prisoners in rehabilitating and treating them effectively due to…

Private Prisons are the Problem Not the Solution Today 25% of the world’s prison population is located in the United States (Baker). The majority of which are imprisoned for nonviolent drug use. Privatized prisons are for profit only, so laws state they must stay full at all times. Prison worker unions are spending money to keep certain drugs illegal to bring in more inmates to keep their job security. Privatized prisons should be banned because they all require at least a 90% or higher…

Privatized prisons and jails have been around for a long time; they existed during the pre-civil war and American colonies era of the United States. However, in the early to mid-1980s, the industry of private prisons was rejuvenated in the U.S. to try to boost third parties to manage the facility for less cost but with better results. In this generation, several industries and corporations—powerful ones to be exact—are running the business of private prisons and jails for many reasons including…

Private prisons are on the top of the most profitable businesses in America.Lake Erie was the first state prison that was sold to a private operator. Lake Erie supports inmate's rehabilitation in the new world. It was bought for over $70 million. Lake Erie is privately operated, does have a lot of programs for inmates. However, there are private prisons that are corrupt, have less programs or even none. The living conditions of private prisons vary. Mississippi Correctional Facility is said to…

her roles that not only pertain to her within society, but also those she plays within the prison itself. In normal society, the woman is both a wife, a mother, a form of a teacher, a civilian, and a caregiver or provider, whereas she is all this plus a prisoner, a criminal, a menace, a inmate, and ultimately a woman. Demonstrating all the different roles a woman plays within both society and the private prison systems contributes to the association that many of the women (in both circumstances)…

impacted by past imprisonment records. More males experience hardship when released from prison, while females experience an increase in employment rates after their release. Females who had a job prior to their imprisonment are the ones who have the highest likelihood of gaining employment after their release. This impact could be explained through the employment training programs that females undergo while in prison. These types of program help females learn job skills and positive social…

same time the Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York. As soldiers who were living on a base that would receive incoming rocket fire, eating the same meals week after week and going out on route clearance patrols looking for IED’s. Even as a Private First Class I was making the correlation between a valuable skill set and income. This is a well-known correlation, but as a Combat Engineer I knew the skill set it offered while valuable to the military was not very valuable in the civilian…