Controversy On Luxuries On Prisons

That’s the more controversial topic, not the horrendous penitentiary conditions. It is a culture in place, where it seems like the norm, but it if far from normal. Everyone should receive a great education, and the same opportunities as others. No one should be above the law, and everyone should receive the same punishment for the same crimes. In the United States, taxpayers spend about 13,000 dollars a year to provide for an inmate. Lander university tuition is about 10,000 dollars a year. It cost more to send a person to jail than college, but most likely that is not going to

Incarceration is thought of as a positive form of punishment, and negative form of punishment. The opinion varies with the type of person, and their experience from jail if they have gone. Most inmates while in prison will tell you it is a horrible place that should be gone. That would allow criminals to be free and that would let them cause harm to others or other illegal activities. Incarceration was not designed to be a paradise, it is a detention center for the bad, and meant for them to be punished. Without jails the world would be filled with even more evil, and would leave people in more danger than they already are.

Whenever you imagine prison, you think up ideas and violent images that you have seen in the movies or on TV.   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are stereotypical of everyday life in prison.   Perhaps it could be a combination of your upbringing, horrific ideas about the punishment which our nation inflicts on those who violate its’ more serious laws that keeps people frightened just enough to lead a law-abiding life. Despite it’s success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the American prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society, it is also extremely expensive and wastes our precious tax dollars.

Every civilization in history has had rules, and citizens who break them. To this day governments struggle to figure out the best way to deal with their criminals in ways that help both society and those that commit the crimes. Imprisonment has historically been the popular solution. However, there are many instances in which people are sent to prison that would be better served for community service, rehab, or some other form of punishment. Prison affects more than just the prisoner; the families, friends, employers, and communities of the incarcerated also pay a price. Prison as a punishment has its pros and cons; although it may be necessary for some, it can be harmful for those who would be better suited for alternative means

Prisoners who had healthcare before becoming incarcerated may have that ignored or taken away from them. International law provides the rights of everyone, including people who may have gotten their freedom take away. The United States of America has the world’s highest incarceration rate. Americans prison population has been growing since the war on drugs led to tough-on-crime laws being implemented in the 1980s and 1990s. (Engel, 2014) Many people enter prison knowing they will be out in a few short months, and others for life. It doesn’t seem the norm to be treating a patient while he or she is chained to the bed. However, no matter the circumstance,

“Crime control view: Inmates are criminals who have harmed others and must be made to pay for their misdeeds. Convicted criminals have, by definition, forfeited their right to freedom and liberty. The suffering they endure in confinement serves to deter future criminal behaviors. The fewer rights inmates have, the greater the deterrent effect of punishment.” (Siegal & Bartollas, 2010, pg. 209)

The United States prison system perpetuates racial and class prejudice and oppresses offenders through extended sentencing and extending the punishment of felons after their sentencing is done. The purpose of this oppression has become the profit motive of those who invest in prisons in a similar way to how they invest in businesses. To better the American people, a prison system that educates and rehabilitates prisoners is necessary.

Prisons and jails hold some similar characteristics but are completely different models in which they serve in the criminal justice system. Some of the types of crimes that America faces today are: violent crimes, property, white collar or organized crime, and public order crimes (Worrall, 2008). The criminal justice system sets the regulations and policies of how an offender will be held accountable for their inappropriate actions. The criminal justice system is a process that takes time and money from society. The following information will briefly discuss the main purposes for the jail and prison systems, which will focus on the length of sentencing, funding sources, and private sector ownership. Let’s begin by explaining the length of

In conclusion, prisoners have more civil rights in American prisons than in many other countries, and prison conditions are much more humane in America than in many other countries. The challenge for the twenty-first century is maintaining a proper balance between the well-being of inmates and ensuring that incarceration is unpleasant enough to act as a deterrent to crime. The courts have developed a body of law that attempts to balance prisoners’ rights with the legitimate goals and concerns of

The book Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis, Davis talks about the prison system and whether or not they are useful. Having to put a person in the prison seems to be the right to do; however, people forget to look at the real consequence of the existence of the prisons. The creation of the prisons seems to be the good solution in regarding of securing social safety; yet, there are many bad consequences that appear to affect the prisoners the most, which those effects involve exploitation of the prisoners’ labor, wasted capital resources that can be used to do other things that can help improve the community, and the way the prisoners are treated is similar to the way slaves were treated.

In spite of scholarly ideas to the contrary, modern day prisons are largely utilitarian in function. As Americans, we are most accustomed to concerning ourselves with the end result rather than the means. We are results oriented. If the public can be convinced that our current prison system is operating effectively,

Having prisons should mean having protection for citizens. Well there needs to be some improvements. Prison should be a place where the criminal learns that the crime committed should never have happened. Being a victim of any sort of crime is life changing. These crimes can be life changing in ways that make a person have doubts about all sorts of things in life. Preventing these life changing crimes would be the best way for anyone to feel protected. Crimes happen on a daily a basis, but it is how the society reacts that matters. The criminal should be punished properly and take responsibility according to their crime.

People sometimes argue this case stating that the offenses committed by jailers are less serious than by prisoners and that prisons are more hostile because they house the more serious offenders. These people forget that jails hold people before they are

While, the issue of the incarcerated population having the privilege of this scarce medical resources is extensively and generally approved or compelling recognition within the correctional health profession and there is a case-law supporting the matter of concern, that the statues of a person as an inmate must not preclude such person as a patient from receiving adequate care in respect to serious health needs, regardless of the cost of such treatment. They also have all the social and moral values since the law does not exempt them from citizenship (Puisis, 2006, p.23).

     “The principle of least eligibility says that, the prison inmates should have no more than what the poorest citizen has.”(Jenne, lecture) This principle doesn’t benefit the inmates and in no way is it going to better them as an individual. If the purpose of corrections is supposed to, “correct the problem,” it should be done accordingly depending on the crime they have committed. Non violent offenders should not be treated as severely as serious offenders such as murderers and rapists. This does not mean they should be treated like they’ve done nothing wrong, but there is clearly a difference in the severity of certain crimes.