The Inmates

Multiple inmates in a Georgia state prison, Greg Phillips State Prison, are incarcerated because they were not able to afford adequate representation in court. Many of the inmates at this particular prison are young women caught in school-to-prison pipeline. A prison chaplain encounters numerous inmates with varieties of reasons pertaining to their incarcerations. Some inmates in Greg Phillips State Prison are incarcerated for heinous acts of violence; others are incarcerated for statutory…

Comprehensive Care Plan Gilliam Psychiatric Hospital is a hospital, in which provides service to incarcerated inmates who are mentally ill. South Carolina failed the mental health population within the community when they had to close their doors due to limited funds in the state budget system. The prison setting has been used as place to treat the mentally ill, who could not afford the mental health medication or treatment. They were left with limited resources to survive and ended up in the…

The current prison system by large has not fully succeeded in rehabilitating criminals and inmates. Instead, the American prison system produced inmates that were mentally and physically restructured due to a prison atmosphere and substandard treatment from their superiors. The American prison system failed to rehabilitate and properly detain inmates the same moment America continued to regard inmates as irreformable and inferior. It’s caused drastic rises in incarceration rates despite patterns…

This creates a large concern as inmates may be inclined to quit their use but will as a result of their newly contracted disease be unable to resume a normal life again; Their lives will be changed due to now having to take medication to prevent their disease from worsening in effects or…

and not rehabilitation. To quote “Some argue that privileges offered in county prisons are too abundant and defeat the purpose of serving one’s actual sentence, while members of the opposite belief say that these offerings are needed to keep the inmates sane.” - From:…

camp had to be evacuated because the allies are approaching and anyone that was left behind will die. Elie and his father decide to evacuate with the rest of the inmates. The inmates are forced to run over forty two miles without any rest. They didn't have a choice because if they stopped to rest, they would get shot by the SS. When the inmates are allowed to rest, a man named Rabbi Eliahou comes to look for his son. Elie realizes that his son ran away from his weak father on purpose. Elie prays…

In response to the mass incarceration issue in America’s prison systems, Arafa and Burns the authors of Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States? Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration, argued in favour of reinstating Judicial Corporal Punishment in the prison systems of America; similar to the ones that Islamic criminal law advocates for. Throughout the article, the authors’ work to prove how Judicial Corporal Punishment is more compassionate to…

Life for inmates within the prison system is not exciting. The average person can only imagine the feeling of a justice system taking your freedom away from you for a mistake that you have been accused of committing. Inmates are told when to sleep, wake up, eat, showers, go outside, make phone call, work and spend quality time with their family member when they come to visit them at prison. Correction Officers for the prison is not an easy task. Correction Officers are out number by the inmates…

that the United States holds approximately 2,239,751 prisoners in penal institutions including pre-trial detainees as of late 2011 (3). That’s almost 22% of people incarcerated world-wide, which is roughly 10.2 million inmates (Walmsley 1). The problem on hand is mentally ill inmates residing in Corrections throughout the United States, but this paper will focus on the impact it has done in the state of California. Corrections including jails, state prisons, juvenile-detention…

Prison; the word brings to mind images of dirty jail cells, with dirtier inmates. Criminals- locked away forever for their terrible crimes. Often times these people are seen as hopeless; rejects of society receiving the punishment they deserve as payment for their mistakes. Even worse more than half of prisoners released from jail return within six months for new criminal charges(Platt 614). Are these people doomed to a life of hardship and crime? The truth however is far more complex than this…