Growing Up In Jail By Eugenham Jail Summary

On November 5, 2015 at approximately 1000 hours I took a jail tour of the Santa Cruz Correctional facility on Water Street, with Melinda Payne as my tour guide. There were a few things that stood out to me during the jail tour. First, I observed how clean and orderly the jail was. There were no bad odors and the walls, floors, and windows were well kept. Personally, I try to maintain a clean and organized workspace therefore the jail environment fit me well. Second, I noticed the overall size of facility. The jail is relatively small in size and was broken into different sections. Personally, I like this layout because I believe it allows for better communication to inmates and staff, better response to major incidents, and quick ability to

Also Mr. Muer’s proposal is a good thing because he is also trying to make the United States incarceration rates to decreased. Being one of the top country with a lot of people in jail, Marc Mauer wants America to be like other countries. In the article Marc Mauer says “ control cost bring the United states more in the line with other industrial nations” ( 42). The jail systems itself are already over packed. If nothing being done to put a stop in incarcerating people for longer sentences then there would be simply more and more American in prison. Prison does exist for a reason to remove violent criminals from the streets and to punish them for the violence they have committed. A significant number of people offenses are not violent people.

Skip Hollandsworth candidly explores the subjects of juvenile crime and sentencing in the electronic long form newspaper article, “The Prisoner”. The purpose of the essay is to inform the reader about juvenile sentencing and to persuade the audience that there are clear problems with aspects of the U.S. prison system. The article is easily accessible to a large audience because it is online. Hollandsworth takes into account that his audience, mostly consisting of Texas Monthly readers, may already have pre-established notions about the topic, so he considers other sides while still supporting his argument. Edwin Debrow, a preteen member of the Crips, committed a murder when he was 12-years old and received a 27-year sentence through the

There are two sides to the story, and it takes demonstration to visualize these points. Economist, Glenn Loury, in his article, “A Nation of Jailers,” portrays the issues among the exclusion of prisoners in society through mass incarceration. By using a variety of rhetorical techniques, he discusses the issue within America and its’ criminal system.

What would the world look like if there were hardly any incarcerations or arrests? The author of the book “Addicted to Incarcerations” Travis Pratt explains using evidence, the consequences of being in a society where crime and nature go hand in hand. The reason why Americans are getting punished, from petty offenders to those guys you see on TV that get caught trying to rape little children or even women. In the book, Pratt uses real world experiences and put issues out in the open throughout each chapter, while also mentioning race and gender issues that serve as a key component of incarceration. The book forces us to look back on what members of a society have done in the past or what currently is being done and if we have taken life for

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander introduces the idea as to how the modern prison system is used to imprison the African American population in the United States. Alexander seems to believe that the ‘War on Drugs’ has replaced previous forms of racial systematic oppression in the United States, such as slavery and Jim Crow laws. Alexander believes that to amend this form of systematic oppression it is necessary to disregard colorblindness in prison reform and approach modern prison systems as a form of racial oppression and increase affirmative action policies. Even though Alexander makes a valid argument, her identity politic approach seems problematic and antithetical to ending systematic racism in the modern prison system.

Author Amy Bennett has recently noticed the increasing media presence on solitary confinement and the abuses found in the U.S. prison system. She noticed that states have been rethinking the practice of solitary confinement with the most notable one being New York and the investigation of Rikers Island. She talked about solitary confinement and how it relates to torture. “Despite the reforms underway at Rikers, there are still those over 18 years of age who will experience the torture of solitary confinement, many of them mentally ill. Still others will become mentally ill as a result of solitary confinement.”(Bennett, 2016) She is saying that isolation can cause one to become mentally ill even though it is under reform.

Glen Loury argues in his essay called “A Nation of Jailer” that the United States is a nation that follows a society that has been affected by racial bias. Loury claims that the people who are targeted by law are racial discriminated. Loury mainly talks about the “poorly educated black and Hispanic men who reside in large numbers in our great urban centers.” (1) Loury has made a clear and strong point. Loury shows his points in three main ways. Loury emphasizes his points by using ethos, logos, and pathos. Loury uses many well-known characters in his writing, and Loury uses strong phrases that impact the reader emotionally and questions to make sure the reader has some sort of connection to Loury’s evidence. Furthermore, Loury gives a lot

I remember a time when I was working on the med-surg floor. We had an inmate who was admitted as a patient with cirrhosis of the liver to remain in the hospital for a while when an inmate is admitted they are automatically placed on opt out list which means no one cans know he is in the hospital not even a family. Well on this particular day his son somehow I found out where he was located he attempted to go to the room and the guard would not let him in the room. The sun became very loud and shouted you go to let me in that room or I am calling my boys. It was apparent he was in a game we all was afraid he was going to shoot the place up I happen to be patient I called security which seemed to make him even madder once they got to the floor

Leonard Peltier is a Native American man currently imprisoned for crimes he did not commit. Peltier is currently serving time in Leavenworth, Kansas, and it is likely that he will live the rest of his life in prison. Examining Peltier’s experiences through several different community systems frameworks will push human service professionals to help not only individuals but whole communities as well. In particular, the ecological systems theory, historical trauma, and the theory of social capital are helpful in making sense of Peltier’s experiences, and seeing them not as random events but as the culmination of years of mistreatment, oppression, and marginalization.

Over the past years, it have been obvious, that jailhouse lawyers have increased the number of lawsuits filed by prisoners. In the year of 1980, prisoners filed 12,395 petitions of civil rights claims and in the year of 2000, prisoners filed 24,463 petitions of civil rights claims, in the Federal Courts, by State prisoners.(Mays & Winfree Jr, 2005, pp.304). Jailhouse lawyers have helped inmates file these petitions against the Federal Courts, in the favor of other inmates challenging their conditions of confinement. The conditions of their confinement seems to be, prisoners way for wanting to receive a sentence reduction, sometimes, a release from prison. On the other hand, prisoners tend to use jailhouse lawyers to file petitions that

For this assignment we had to watch the film From Prison to Home. This film is about people in prison getting out and being on parole. Not only are these people on parole they are trying to live life with obstacles and stay out of trouble. Now this movie in particular follows four men who have been released and are going through a special program, this program is called the African American Program. This program in particular is supposed to be able to help out African Americans get the help they need so they can stay out of trouble. The four men that this movie follows are; Richard, Arthur, Calvin, Randy.

Women have been fighting for equal rights for decades. And, as of a result of this, have gained many equal rights. But are those rights just supposed to disappear when a woman gets incarcerated, and at what price does it cost that woman, to get her rights back, or does she ever get them back? The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and with each year the percentage of women that make up that rate, are growing. According to Statistics on Women Offenders- 2015. (1997), “Since 2010, the female jail population has been the fastest growing correctional population, increasing by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent”. It also states that, in 2013, women made up 17% of the jail population, and 25% of probation population in the U.S. Not only have these numbers been steadily rising, but of those incarcerated, approximately 77% are likely to reoffend (p.1). This has risen quite a concern in society today. Why is there such a high chance that incarcerated women will likely reoffend? At a micro level, is it the fault of the woman? Or, a larger issue at the macro level, with society, laws, policies, and loss of the most basic rights that every citizen should be entitled to? According to Pinto, Rahman, & Williams. (2014), incarcerated women need help meeting individual needs when they are released, such as, reducing drug or alcohol use, finding a job, health issues, as well as help in dealing with the impact of

Greg Dobbs is a journalist, professional public speaker, and ABC News correspondent. Dobbs argues in agreeance of keeping solitary confinements in the prison systems for way of punishment. He first talks about Rick Raemisch’s, Department of Correction boss, experience as he stayed in solitary confinement for twenty hours at the Colorado Prison. Dobbs quoted Raemisch when he said, “I sat with my mind”. Raemisch brought a lot of attention to the evil side of solitary confinement says Dobbs. He then reminds the reader that convicted criminals

"I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless existence"