Gender Differences In The Cuban Prison System

Prisons are an improvement over early punishments that involved mainly putting people to death for anything and everything. Prisons are here to remove the danger that law breakers would pose to the rest of the world. Prison helps to reform the characters of those who have broken the law. For the fairly violent offenders incarceration is needed to prevent that individual from causing potential harm to an innocent other.

The History of prisons goes through many eras. Many of these eras have a major impact on today’s prison system. The different was that the system worked and didn’t work really showed what was possibly and what should not be tried again. Each era tried to do something new are recreate something that had already been done by making changes to the way that they treated the inmates all the way to how they were housed and how much contact they had with one another. The different eras gave the present day prison system many great things to think about. Such as large capacity housing so you can properly use all the space in the prison and hold it to capacity. There is also the parole system that gives inmates a chance to work get out early and spend the rest of their sentence on the outside. These many great traits that the prison system today has all come from the hundreds of years of trial and error that occurred throughout the world.

The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism, where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began, the formal prison system, as we know it today, developed. Throughout most of the world, the correctional system is administered by the state, and it is considered a key function that the government must fulfill: protect its citizens by

According to Foster (2006), about thirty-five percent of offenders fall into this category. From there, you have the minimum security prisons. Smaller prisons with fewer internal controls and a larger ration to guards and inmates dictate these facilities. Finally, you have what is commonly known as trustees, or open-security facilities. They hardly resemble prisons, and typically don’t even have locked doors or fences to confine the inmates. Other prison types include the infamous super-max unit that holds the most evil and deadly of inmates to the highest custody level possible and special housing units with security conditions similar to super-max farms, but house disciplinary offenders for shorter periods rather then long-term.

America has one of the largest prison population and according to the bureau of the justice department. States and federal prisons held 1574700 inmates in December 2013.and it increased by 4300 inmates over the years end. More than two-thirds of prisoners were arrested within the first six months of release. These statistics show that prison as punishment alone do not work and some measures need to be but in place to decrease the population of inmates and recidivism. Prison should be used as both rehabilitation and punishment.

Society has to know the real purpose of jail. Automatically we hear jail and we think of vicious criminals and then produce negative stigmas. We must keep in mind a jail’s main intention is to hold the rabble (disorderly crowd), not the other persons. The offenders are held there, tried for crimes they committed and then find out if they are found guilty or not. If they are found guilty, they will be faced with some sort of punishment.

There is an extreme difference between the criminal justice systems used in Norway with that of the one used in Texas. In Texas, we see a tough justice system that seeks to punish the guilty. On the other hand, Norway attempts to teach its prisoners to be good citizens by treating them with respect, like normal people. On this essay I plan to compare and contrast both criminal justice systems and discover which one is the best approach.

The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism, where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution began, the formal prison system, as we know it today, developed. Throughout most of the world, the correctional system is administered by the state, and it is considered a key function that the government must fulfill: protect its citizens by

     A prison is an institution for confining and punishing people who have been convicted of committing a crime. A prison is supposed to punish criminals by restricting their freedom of where they can go, what they can do, and with whom they may associate. In America, 1.1 million

Controlling its people just like it has been for decades, and most likely more to come. Castro is the dictator of Cuba, he has severe limits on different type of freedom. So all the freedoms we people in America have, if you lived in Cuba those freedoms would be removed from you. Many people in Cuba dislike the totalitarian government and want it to be gone. Kaweewit Kaewjinda talks of protesters in Cuba, “Cuban protesters have borrowed a silent, powerful gesture of resistance to a totalitarian government.”

Prisons, a place where criminals are sent to serve their time for the delinquencies they have committed. A place where criminals have the ability to reevaluate themselves so that they can return back to normal society. Contrary to the ideal meaning of a prison, these federal buildings have completely lost the original reason as to why they are here in the first place. The incarceration rate of the United States has been growing like a plague, and Congress has paid no attention in making matters better for the imprisoned. On top of that, a large majority of prisoners are sentenced for miniscule crimes, while more threatening ones are still out on the run. The prison system in America is corrupt in means of cost and those who are confined, and

Prisons are an institution designed to securely house people who have been convicted of crimes. These people are known as convicts, prisoners, or inmates that are kept in custody for a certain amount of time. The type of crime decides the length of the sentence. In the state of Kentucky, there are 13 state prisons. "The United States hold more than 1.3 million people in 1,749 state prison" (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html). Prison is not a place for most people: sitting in a cell twenty-three hours of the day, working with little to hardly no pay, and constantly chained like an animal.

Although Cuba has as many problems as they do, they are slowly getting better with thanks to influence by the U.N. and even stronger influence by the United States. As previously stated, the death penalty in Cuba was abolished in 2003 and the government has introduced internet to the general public. Although these are the only main improvements, and they aren’t incredibly important, they are improvements. Along with the abolition of the death penalty, the amount of arbitrary arrests and abductions has decreased since

Prison is an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses. Throughout history, most societies have built places in which to hold persons accused of criminal acts pending some form of trial. The idea of confining persons after a trial as punishment for their crimes is relatively new.

Prisons and jails are both referred to as incarcerations. A prison is where people get physically confined and lack personal freedom, and also those awaiting trails and those serving a term exceeding one year are confined here, while a jail is where inmates are housed prior to their trials on local level and those serving a term of one year or less. The society is protected from the offenders by them being confined in prisons, where their behaviors can be monitored, or they can be placed in community-based facilities which are secured and also offer an opportunity for the prisoners to acquire skills and knowledge through work related activities. The jail on the other hand serves the purpose of detaining law offenders of which they shall