A Summary Of Prisons

According to Alexander, so many black men are missing because they are under the criminal justice system. In today’s society, there has been a mass incarceration of black men due to the federal program called the war on drugs. Because of this mass incarceration, a lot of black men are far from home without being able to raise their children. “Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages” (Alexander 738). African Americans were victims of slavery in the past; however, in today’s society the number of black men in prison is even bigger than the black men enslaved in the past. “More black men are imprisoned today than at any other moment in our nation’s history” (Alexander 740). The war on drugs makes this possible because

In the beginning of the book Helen the main character of the story begins talking about her life including that she is a photographer or wants be, but is currently only doing part time jobs.She also says she has a child named Ollie who doesn't live with her, and that she is divorced. Helen then meets Ava, a woman in her 40s who is handicap, at one of her catering jobs who later invites Helen to her house. Nothing is really known about Helen's social life or her family until she speaks to Ava. Although Ava doesn’t ask her Helen eventually breaks and tells Ava everything. She talks about everything that happened to her and why Ollie wasn’t a part of her life. The reader then learns that after Helen divorced Dwight Ollie’s father she would drink a cup of wine at night while Ollie was already asleep to help relax, however one night Ollie stomach was hurting and had to go to the hospital, however Helen had a cup of

What comes to mind when thinking of women in a correctional facility? Maybe crime, sexual abuse, mental illness, or drugs? When contemplating a typical female prisoner these are valid areas to take into consideration. However, has anyone ever stopped to think about the quality of care they receive during their incarceration or the lack thereof? Using an experimental approach, this group aims to create a film that will shed light onto the inhumane treatment of women in prison.

With my last name starting with a W I had the option of choosing between four different chapters. Chapter 5 the Court System, Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons, Chapter 7 Probation and Parole, and Chapter 8 the Juvenile Justices System. This being a hard choice to narrow these four topics down to one I have decided to discuss Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons.

In considering the jails, as well as state and federal prisons, and in modern America, one must understand the historical contexts in which the three institutions were conceptualized and put into practice. Then a discussion of the reasons behind the drastic recent growth off these three ancient institutions must be had. Finally, a review of the security classifications which enable these facilities to carry out the business of incarceration and rehabilitation in a secure and safe manner should be conducted to round out our consideration of these ancient institutions. The role of jails and prisons is a complicated one, made more

America loves to claim they`re the beacon of freedom throughout the world and yet ironically, it has the highest prison population in the world. According the ACLU, America, which only makes up 5% of the world’s populace, holds nearly 25% of the world’s inmates, surpassing Russia. This doesn`t add up when compared to the statistics. If crime rate is at a low, why is the prison population so high? What is contributing to the mass incarceration across the nation? Well, with the evidence presented, it would appear that the private sector is the main contributor to this new American pandemic and more specifically, the privatization of prisons

Prisons have become asylums. There are ten times as many prisoners receiving help than there are patients in psychiatrist. It has become a simpler or only way for some to obtain help; to self-medicate and land in prison. Getting help in communities around the nation is becoming difficult Therefore, a large portion of inmates are being left untreated and have found their ways onto the prison system. Because Prisons are unequipped many are left with no psychiatry help or with only medication to hand out. Prison officials are mostly untrained for these individuals and treat them alike others unknowingly inflicting more damage to the individuals, others try their best to provide treatment but understand that the prison cycle is difficult to get

Miriam is one of the major female victims who demonstrated a story as Funder states “[her] story has winded me.” “[Miriam] still [has] scars on [her] hands…” proving that her experiences with the Stasi is still remaining with her not allowing her to move on to be happy. Miriam has been sentenced for “one and a half years in women’s prison” implying that escapes in East Germany was a serious consequence if attempted. Miriam has given up hope on her past when her husband Charlie had passed away suspecting that the Stasi may have been the cause of his death. At his funeral Miriam quotes, ”think there were even more stasi there… sat in pairs,” proving Miriam’s suspicion of Charlie’s death. At age 16 she was “an official enemy of the State”. She was going against the legal rules and was printing out pamphlets getting the Stasi officers attention. She was interfering with the system, which may have led her to experience permanent distress. Miriam is unable to move on with her life because she never found answers to the questions that have always been in the back of her

Although the prison system was originally created to hold the menaces of our society and attempt to reform them to what we consider ideal citizens, todays private companies have created an alternative use for these prisoners which many consider a new form of slavery for the United States. Starting with the “Reagan revolution” which involved,” privatizing as many government activates as possible, based on an economic theory about free markets that contained assumptions that frequently did not match reality (Selman 9*).” This along with President Nixon’s “Law and Order” campaign helped usher in the idea of private prison due to the sudden influx of prisoners along with longer sentencing time for minor drug charges the reason for this decision

In America, people are sent to prison with the goal for the convict to be punished, to prevent them from doing bad things again, and to deter others from breaking the law. Each year, millions of people are released from prison, but roughly two-thirds of the prisoners who were released reoffend within three years of leaving prison, often with a more serious and violent offense. This can be attributed to the ineffective correction style that America has adopted: punishment. American prisons have focused more on punishment than correcting the character, attitudes, and or behavior of the convicted offender and this has held an adverse effect on one’s incorporation into society after incarceration. The treatment of prisoners while they are

The issues in the US prisons. There is a lot of them one is the private prisons that cost more to run then a public one. The food is another very big issue. The amount of people in their for the little things. These are the major issues.

The United States prison system is an institution which has undergone dramatic changes in its history, from being a short detention center between a criminal and their true punishment, to what was thought to be a place for wayward souls to be rehabilitated through isolation, hard work, and religious repentance so they could reenter society without committing crimes again, to a place of overcrowded conditions, corruption, and prisoner abuse that existed solely for the sake of punishment. Since the prison system reached that point, there have been numerous attempted reforms of the system, and while they all ultimately failed at their goal of completely overhauling the system, they have all at least partly contributed to what we see in the United

Ava was a quite girl living a quite life with dull brown hair and grey eyes but it that all changed when she decided to go out to a party with one boy, Evan the star football player with blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She wakes and it is the morning after the party, as she stretch’s she looks around and realizes that she isn’t in her room but in a hotel room; being curious she moved the covers of the bed and discovers she is in a white top covered with tiny red dots, it must have been from the party. Ava decided to look around the room and as she does that she finds a remote for the TV in the corner of the room but when she turned it on she saw something she wasn't expecting.

This tragic story of Aleigha shows just how traumatic this time during the Nazi regime was for the Jewish populace and the hardships they faced. Her experience reiterates

Many jails and prisons are well aware of the financial burden healthcare brings to jails and prisons. Yet, leaders of jails and prisons know that by law, medical services must be provided to their inmates, as it is considered an Eighth Amendment issue regarding cruel and unusual punishment. Furthermore, the medical services provided, must be at a level comparable to the care an inmate would receive in the community if they were not incarcerated. Therefore if I were a warden of a prison, I would recommend reducing the inmate need for healthcare and reduce the cost of health care per inmate treated.