Yuma Territorial Prison

Throughout the novel of “The Damage Done” Warren Fellow’s experiences and hardships he finds himself faced with cause on-going anguish both mentally and physically. These aspects of his unjust life in prison and the events preceding convince Warren into believing that his punishment was not justified, or even remotely equal to his crimes that led to his arrest. There are multiple excerpts from book that can confirm and justify his beliefs of unjust incarceration. One of them includes a quote…

The Criminal Justice system is only one aspect of a major entity referred to as social institution. Social institutions were created to protect and teach acceptable behaviors to society members to ensure unified treatment of everyone in a specified group. The Criminal Justice system was designed as a means to discipline and correct offenders, offer compensation to victims of criminal acts, and deter future criminal occurrences. Even with all the focus of this system geared at rehabilitation…

Prison on television and films is portrayed a lot more innocent than it actually is. They do not go into very much detail about the most intense parts. In this book, Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman, the readers are given a perspective on the inside view of the women 's criminal justice and get to see how horrifying it actually is. There are a variety of reasons why one would say that prison changed piper for the better knowing that once she came out she would be more cautious about her…

Activity 3.1-Chronicling Convict Transportation in Song Primarily in the late 18th century Britain began to drift from public executions and adopted a new form of punishment most commonly known as transportation and or imprisonment. This method emulated the out of sight out of mind philosophy that sent thousands of convicted criminals for a wide array of crimes to Britain colonies, such as Australia. This change evaluated the criminal justice system methodology of punishing subordinates and…

taken away from our taxes is used to support our federal prisons which require a set amount of money in order to continue thriving and providing the correct care for prisoners. It has been shown that annual state spending on corrections has reached a peak of $51 billion and unsurprisingly, prisons account for the vast majority of this cost (Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms). Now some would say that if the prisons need that money then by all means take it to help…

Although the task sounds impossible, we cannot give up on finding a better way. A person cannot be persuaded if he doesn’t care about the topic, Jacoby uses this essay to push the conversation forward, and call people’s attention about our broken prison system. He addresses that “imprisonment has become our penalty of choice for almost every offense in the criminal code.” in his essay. Is there anything wrong? We can just send them to different cells for different code, and keep them in there…

Some murderers get away with their crimes because prosecutors give them light charges. It is unjust because it isn’t fair that they take an innocent life and they get away with it. Some of those murderers will kill again because putting them in prison for a very long time doesn’t really change the fact that they’re still murderers. Some murderers kill people because it gives them pleasure and they will keep doing it and nothing will stop them until we try to. I believe that the only solution…

The legality and use of the death penalty in the United States of America is a highly controversial issue. Different people have different opinions, of course, which often stem back to morality, cost, or personal judgement. Most of these opinions boil down to one decision: “Should the death penalty be outlawed, or remain legal?” While both sides on the issue hold some amount of viability, the death penalty should be refused under all circumstances. The decision of whether or not the accused…

The most plausible reason for racial disparities regarding sentencing is that minorities “are more likely to be subject to facially neutral laws and policies that prescribe more severe sentences or sentence enhancements” (Walker, Spohn and Delone 2012:286). For example, police patrols in a minority-housing complex on one shift disregard anyone with a joint or two when they search an individual. Occasionally they may write a summons to court therefore the residents get comfortable that they have…

The introduction of this research paper discusses Alice Goffman’s observation of the increase in policing and supervision in poor Black neighborhoods. In this paper, Goffman explains what this increase has meant for wanted African American males and the inhabitants of poor communities. Since, according to Goffman, such studies done in poor minority neighborhoods were written before the expansion of the criminal justice system, she worked with a group of poor African American males for six years…