The Inmates

“In California prisons in 2004, 73% of all suicides occurred in isolation units” (The Dangerous Overuse of Solitary p5). Surge in numbers of inmates killing themselves in solitary confinement. In the United States, approximately 80,000 inmates are placed in solitary each year. Prisoners are placed in solitary for a variety of reasons. However, nearly every prisoner in solitary confinement end up having a mental disorder and physiological effects. In Haney’s (1993) study of 100 randomly selected…

Inmates were taking of death row and resentenced. This particular case produced an effective moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States. However, on November 7, 1972 California Proposition 17 was passed. It allowed the death penalty to…

Santos is able to describe prison life allows the reader to realize that it is a culture. Inside prisons there are rules and expectations that an inmate is expected to know even among arrival. Inmates know they are going to be deprived of their freedom, but also have a mentality that is reinforced in prisons that they cannot become anything more than an inmate. This is the case of Fox, who was convicted for robbery his first time at 21 years old. He says, “I knew I was comin’ out to hustle.…

Female inmates are much more likely to only be serving time for drug or property offenses. A study revealed that as many as sixty percent of female convicts have a substance abuse problem, while almost seventy-five percent have some form of psychological complications. The same study showed that the women's crimes were most often a direct result of these problems. Male inmates, on the other hand, are more likely to be serving time for violent…

small percentage, it is a strong indication of a change occurring for released inmates to re-enter back into society. One of the factors that aid in reentrance back into society is the use of reentry. There are reentry programs and centers that give shelter to released inmates and aids them in employment, financial stability, case managing and so on, which is deemed beneficial for the recidivism rate. Yet, released inmates still face stigma and inability to be well grounded, particularly with…

Prison overpopulation has been a rising issue for over a decade, and many politicians have proposed pathways to solutions to the issue. Today the federal prisons are housing over 200,000 people (Total Federal Inmate Statistics, 2015) and numerous prisons are reaching capacity every day. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, since 1980 the United States prison population has risen by 184,000 people. The prison population is expected to continue to swell over 45 percent of its limit…

Four walls surround you, no windows just a large metal door locked from the outside. For entertainment you have a cot, a metal toilet and yourself. Your only social interactions are from the prison guard that drops off your food, even they are not supposed to speak to you. Maybe at first it is easy you can sleep, but for how long can you sleep. Then possibly you decide to entertain yourself; by talking to yourself, fantasizing and imagining a new reality. Of course before you know it you lose…

lowest level, for low level offenses is the minimal level security. Succeeding the minimum level is the medium security prisons which have the largest quantity of prisoners. The third level of security is maximum security. Maximum security limits inmates to minimal amount of social interaction. The highest level of…

The Role of Psychopathy in Criminal Behavior, Recidivism and the Need for Structured Intervention 1 The Role of Psycopathy in Criminal Recidivism and the Need for Structured Intervention Prediction and Prevention of Criminal Conduct Jacob C. Lynch The Role of Psychopathy in Criminal Behavior, Recidivism and the Need for Structured Intervention 2 An estimated 6,851,000 people are under the incarcerated…

Flipping through the channels I stumbled upon a new documentary-series on the A&E station called “60 days In”. The point of the show was to have 8 volunteers spend 60 days undercover in Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana as inmates. All volunteer inmates were on a mission to obtain valuable information on illegal activities within the jail that the surveillance systems and officers were missing. The main illegal activity the sheriff wanted insight on was how…