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Tabb Hall ENG 240 Professor Steven Waszak Reforming prison education Growing up in a household where drug use, violence, and abuse were all part of the normal routine John’s childhood was anything but ideal. Living in a place where he had no positive role model John didn’t really know what right looked like. He started running with the wrong crowd committing petty crimes and doing drugs in his early teens. His record looks like most people’s school pictures because of his regular run-ins with…

When someone commits a crime there are few choices in the way their punishment will go. Most commonly they will either get the charges dropped, get probation, or get sentenced to jail time. If they are sentenced to jail time often times they will be allowed the chance for parole in the future. Just because the offender is only given probation or is released on parole, that does not mean they are free to do as they choose. There are sanctions placed on both probationers and parolees, and they…

massive problem with its prisons. Our prisons have a disproportionate number of minority inmates. There are many underlying factors fueling this imbalance. This research paper will highlight and inspect the social, political, and legal structures that currently contribute to this disparity. I will also address the issues that exacerbate our penal system: generational poverty, the war on drugs, and racial profiling. When you hear of a disparity between minority and Caucasian prison populations,…

“Behavior of a child or youth that is so marked by violation of law,persistent mischievousness, antisocial behavior, disobedience, orintractability as to thwart correction by parents and to constitute amatter for action by the juvenile courts” (Dictionary.com, 2015). According to the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) the costs we bear for overreliance on youth confinement is “sticker shock” (2014). There is a criterion which affirms that temporary confinement of juvenile offenders is still…

As most prisons have been designed to accommodate for security measures, such as cameras, barricade doors, effective placement of staff to be able to respond quickly and safely to an area of physical violence, so that to protect themselves and other inmates from further harm, as well as being able to effectively control inmate mobility. In common areas within a facility staff is able to isolate areas in which physical altercations are occurring, reducing the ability of other inmates to join into…

Death Penalty From the start of our nation, people have been granted the right to life, whether a person is to die or whether he is to live should not be decided by the state. We must abolish of the death penalty because people have been wrongly accused before, it has happened before and it could happen again. Picture this, what if this time a family member or loved one was wrongly sentenced to death, will you sit back and wait till that happens or will you take a stand today before it’s too…

Beginnings are an opportunity for change and with previously or currently incarcerated women the time for change is determined by successful reintegrations. The process of living in a society gives humans opportunities to fulfill many roles and with women these roles can include things such as students, mothers, wives, daughters, and any career path they choose. Self-identity can become conflicted when the needs of these roles are not met and meeting societal standards can become extremely…

there (Hudson). Therefore, it is shocking and uncomfortable to discover that, while its population is quite small in comparison with other nations, the U.S. houses a quarter of the world’s inmate population (Hudson). Furthermore, the United States’ prison population adds up to a whopping 2.2 million people (Sidlow and Henschen 335), beating out the next highest nation, China, by nearly 600,000 prisoners (Walmsley). Given that China is home to 1.3 billion people, their incarceration rate of…

funding for Arizona’s public universities. But it earmarked $5 million for new, 3,000-bed private prison that even the state’s most notorious law enforcement official, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, argues is unnecessary” according to azcentral. It is most likely that Ducey’s budget plan was influenced by Arizona’s contract with private prisons and also by his friends over at the private prisons industry who helped him during his campaign by investing money into Governor Ducey’s campaign,…

For as long as humans have lived in groups, a concept of punishment by the group on the individual has existed. Overtime this concept has evolved into the forms of justice we see today. Across the world, ideas of what constitutes adequate punishment to crime vary hugely. This difference is due to different social ideas of what is a fair response to delinquency. However an undeniable trend has been the abolishment of capital punishment. More and more countries are turning away from using this,…