School corporal punishment

Introduction The main purpose of solitary confinement is to isolate a prisoner in a separate cell as a punishment. When an inmate is sent to solitary confinement there is no doubt that their mental health is affected. The reason I chose this topic is because for many years, solitary confinement has been and continues to be a controversial topic. A common mistake that is often made with the term juvenile is that inmates under the age of 18 are automatically tried as juveniles. Let’s take for…

This is a short story about the search for true equality of all United States citizens that has led to the creation of the 211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the Constitution in the year 2081. Nobody was allowed to be stronger or quicker than anybody else, or reveal their beauty. People that were prettier or more handsome than the others wore hideous masks, people that were of higher intelligence had to wear ear pieces (referred to as a "little mental handicap radio") that would send out…

prisoners; American prisons focus only on punishment. Second, the population difference in prisons. Norway has a shockingly low number of prisoners, while America has the largest amount of prisoners. Third, The incarceration rate. America has the largest incarceration rate; Norway has the lowest incarceration rate. Finally, how the prisoners are treated. People feel that American prisons are not treating their prisoners as human beings with cruel punishments, while most people feel that Norway…

Juveniles as young as 14 are being positioned in prisons with adults from minimum to maximum prisons. A minimum prison would house offenders who have committed a minor offense such as theft, while a maximum prison house felonies who have engaged in activities such as rape or murder. In 2005, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty ruling “people under 18 are immature, irresponsible, susceptible to peer-pressure and often capable of change (Scott, 2012).” Although, the court recognizes…

Recidivism is the most commonly used measurement for correctional success. Prison programs are intended to provide counseling and skill training for prisoners for their reentry into society. The decreasing emphasis on these programs is leaving inmates unprepared. Prisoners face many challenges that lead to crime and reconviction. Buying a house is complicated enough as it is. For ex-offenders there are several factors that make this difficult including the scarcity of affordable and available…

understand the actions. They may have been helping a crime to be committed without committing it themselves. It is cruel and unusual to leave young individuals within prison walls for their entire lives. Indeed, the aim of being imprisoned should not be punishment but to reeducate them in order for them to understand what the correct values to follow are and to give them an opportunity to improve themselves. Moreover, children and teenagers should not be tried as if they were adults but instead…

In response to a spike in juvenile crime rates during the transition into the Civil Rights era, states enacted tough punitive transfer laws that made it easier to automatically transfer juveniles to the adult criminal justice system, trying and sentencing adolescents as adults. Automatic transfer laws exempt certain crimes from being processed through the juvenile justice system by addressing the issue of juvenile delinquency based on irrational fears of a juvenile superpredator. Over the last…

NightJohn, a story written by Gary Paulsen, expresses the story of Waller, the master, who owns slaves to work on the fields and take on other duties. To keep things in order he will punish other slaves for breaking a rule.This will cause other slaves to feel frightened and make them not disobey anymore. The slaves wouldn’t follow the rules if they knew they wouldn't get punished so it’s very important to the slave owners to punish their slaves when they misbehave. In the story, there are…

incapacitation offers the possibility of concentrating scarce and costly prison resources on those most likely to commit crimes if not confined. Selective incapacitation should not be the only rationale for incarceration. Other purposes of sentencing (punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation) are also important, and they may justify imprisonment…

Part 1: In “A Child Called It” there were a lot of intense moments that leaves the reader emotionally disturbed. One that stands out most to me is when the main character, David, was going over a week without eating in many different occasions but, his mother eventually decided to feed him. David is given a plate and right before he is able to even touch the food it is smacked off the table by his mother and he lost his opportunity to eat. The moment I read that part of the story, so many…