San Quentin State 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…

One of the most infamous prisons in history strategically sits in the San Francisco Bay about 1.25 miles offshore from the city. Alcatraz was home to many notorious convicts and now not just San Francisco’s most popular tourist attraction but the most popular in the country. Before “The Rock” was a prison, it has a very eventful past that makes it such an interesting and appealing island. It was avoided and utilized by the Native Americans, and was the most prominent fortress on the west coast…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography Better known as a prominent figure in the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis is a well known radical leftist and a member of the Communist Party USA. She was a professor at UCLA, which then California Governor Ronald Regan urged the Board of Regents of the University of California to fire her for her Communist affiliations. However, she fought them in court and it was ruled the Regents could not fire Davis solely because of her affiliations with the Communist Party.…

originally enacted in 1994 in California. The law came about in 1992 when a young innocent girl named Kimber Reynolds from Fresno was murdered in an attempted purse snatching by two convicts who had previously just finished serving their times in prison. Immediate after the death of Kimber, her father Mike was inspired to take action to help prevent innocent people from getting harmed by criminals. Mike Reynolds and his group put together a law and named it, “Three Strikes and You’re Out!” law.…

A mafia or gang is an undercover a group of offenders. This group was created in the mid-19th century in Sicily because, people became sick go government. Then it was scattered throughout the West, the United States of America and Australia. The most famous gang in the United States is five gangsters which are located in New York. At the beginning, gang was related to a family. Therefore, gang is an organized group of family. Each family controls a city, and the conformation of these families is…

are unfit to handle the workload of death row cases. Also, the death penalty system costs the state a great amount of money. California is voting to reform their system this November. The state will either abolish the system or quicken the process. Medina informs her readers about California’s broken death penalty system that demands ratification. Death row inmates in California have little to…

the outside world. With the growing rate of prisoners in the U.S. brings the growing rate of drugs into those prisons. Drug use within prisons presents several problems for the Correctional system. Security measures are implemented to try and stop the entrance of drugs into prison, but they still get through for inmates to use. There are roughly two million people that pass through prison per year, and according to Wagner (2016), “about 1 in every 5 inmates are there due to drug related…

They claim that spending time in prison as adolescents may hinder any chance they have at rehabilitation. Gary Scott is a man who is serving 15 years to life in a San Quentin State Prison, for second-degree murder (Scott, 2012). A crime he committed at the age of 15. Scott uses his observations inside the walls of prison to explain what happens to young offenders in prison. Young prisoners more easily succumb to the negative influences in prison, they are overwhelmed by the reality of the…

The prison conditions in the United States are appalling to the inmates who are currently serving their time. Prisons have become worse today due to a crumbling infrastructure and currently cannot handle the influx of prisoners coming in. I also disapprove of the current conditions inmates face. Some of these issues is the overcrowding that inmates are dealing with. Budget cuts have also caused Insufficient funds to services like health care, schooling and jobs for rehabilitation to be…

murderer typologies that a “Sex killer, is a type of murderer that is most likely to display acts, such as cannibalism, postmortem sexual activity, and mutilation.” (p. 4) The motives of serial killers are not easy to distinguish as Goodwin further states “researchers began merging sociogenic, biogenic and psychogenic explanations of crimes with theories of aggression to distinguish between an offender’s level of aggression.” (p. 5) This could explain Ramirez’ motives in regards to aggression…