Supermax

Whilst Norway is a particularly wealthy country, the reflection of wealth is implemented in the design and programs offered in Halden Prison in Norway. The Nordic approach to social philosophy accentuates enforcing and reinforcing moral norms, which prevents individuals from committing a crime. As a result, people in Norwegian countries generally would rather follow the moral norms than commit a criminal offense (Hinkkanen & Lappi-Seppala 2011). In the last 30 years, Norway has become one of the…

Tolerance in our justice system is mistaken for weakness because of luxuries, stability, and sentence cutting to maintain budget (Smith). Today in American 's face a big problem with trying to figure out the best way of justice for criminals who have committed crimes to innocent individuals. The problem is that we all have different hearts on what we feel is necessary punishment. About 12% of people believe prison should be used as a deterrent to criminals (Friedman2008), 55% of people believe…

A Time Out is all you Need Imagine that you are sitting in a jail cell with nothing but some books and dictionaries. You decide to pick them up, read them and copy them down because what else are you supposed to do in a boring, old jail cell. Do you believe this would change you? Do you think it would spark interests that you didn’t know that you possess? In “Literacy Behind Bars”, by Malcolm X the author tells us about his experience of being in jail and how it manifestly changed his…

Many people think that incarceration is like a vacation at a country club until they see what really happens behind the bars. Offenders do not get the help that they need when they are in prison. When offenders go to prison and when they are let out nothing has changed and they usually end up back in prison. The rates of population have gone up and prisons are becoming over populated. Craig Jones and Don Weatherburn proves, “The sentenced adult prison population has increased by about 20 per…

Imagine being a 16-year-old boy in jail. A fight breaks out and you are transported to solitary confinement. The Room is small you can barely move around. You have been in solitary for months or even years. You start to develop symptoms such as difficulty sleeping, Suicide, Insomnia, mood swings and withdrawal. These are some of the things our youth must deal with daily. Many statistics have shown if a person isn’t mentally ill when entering an isolation unit, by the time they are released,…

Did you know that approximately 80,000 people are being held in solitary confinement in the United States right now, and that these 80,000 people come only from the 38 states that still utilize solitary confinement in their prison systems? If the goal of prison really is rehabilitation, the inmates should be helped, not harmed. Solitary confinement is inhumane treatment and therefore, it should be abolished. For those of you who don’t know much about solitary confinement, here is some…

Born into a life of exhausting labor, ruthless rivalries, and a nearly complete absence of human affection, Shin Dong-Hyuk is one of the few who managed to escape one of North Korea's most secretive prison labor camps. This is not a work of fiction. This is his story. Escape From Camp 14 starts off with a memory of Shin witnessing the execution his mother and older brother after their escape plan was discovered. Shin was born and raised in a political prison camp in North Korea known as Camp 14…

Psychological Issues of Solitary Confinement Along with the ethical issues of solitary confinement, there are psychological issues that inmates develop due to lengthy stay in solitary confinement. “In 1993, Craig Haney, a social psychologist, interviewed a group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s toughest penal institution.” (Weir, 2012) This was done due to the fact that states were beginning to build super-maximum prisons to house more dangerous and…

What looks to be almost like a college campus sitting on hill is Massachusetts Correctional Institution Shirley. The only thing stopping the prisoners from escaping into the woods or a getaway car waiting for them on the busy road are signs scattered around warning that if the inmates go beyond the sign then they are “Out of bonds”. Men covered in tattoos slowly walk around a green pasture, as other men tend to the prison gardens near the woods or they are playing a game of basketball by the…

“On any given day, between six and eight per cent of Canada’s 15,000 federal inmates are in segregation cells, and about one-fifth of them will spend more than 120 days there.”(Winter, par. 13) Solitary confinement is not something anyone is willing to talk about because it involves people society deems as outcasts so we sweep it under the rug and ignore the issue. What many canadians do not know is that solitary confinement is classified as a form of torture by the United Nations due to to its…