Guard Baile Monologue

They have full riot gear on, and a rottweiler in tow. One by one, we are handcuffed and escorted to the shower stalls at the center of the dayroom area” (154) . The prisoners have to shower while being watched by the guards and also a rottweiler; therefore, they are forced to concentrate on nothing else except for the time on the clock and the ever-present, snarly dog that is watching them. Having no form of escape from their reality forces some to create their own escape. “There have been reports of two or three suicides. Some of the inmates have become unhinged, and can be seen shuffling around, on Thorazine or something” (156) These prisoners were clearly eager to escape their circumstances since they were willing to take their own life. The system should not be allowed to make these inmates feel as though death is the only way out; they should be helping the inmates become better human beings. With the system’s help, prison sentences could result in functioning members of society. For this to be possible, they would need their right to a distraction once again.

be clouds like that and we'll be able to fly to them and touch them and lay on them, like a soft bed. In all seriousness, and with a slightly condescending look on her face as though I

By earning the prisoners respect, this officer’s life was saved. This is an important life lesson to all law enforcement and corrections officers. Another thing I want to point out briefly is that inmates have a code of things you can and cannot do. For instance, sex offenders generally

I was in juvie ready to be discharged out and ready to go to my home town. Who was there? Well I really didn't really know till we got to go to the game room person who i met his name was dominic he gave me advice to behave and try to do what they would tell me to do and then I met the bad girl my friend Brianna and the other one Abigail, also Gabe well he was more quiet. Why was I there for my bad decisions in life and that ended me in juvie. When did it happen… 23 August 2017 Where did It happen at At a parking Lot. This why you kids i'm not saying i'm the best person i'm not a angel but who said Someone can’t change their lives around it's possible people always be judging well I learned something if you're going to do something bad don't

On October 30th, I went to see The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Luke Hoover. The play begins with the two critics Moon and Birdboot entering the stage and taking their seats for the play. They discuss work and their personal life before the first police report. These police reports are an example of foreshadowing to the appearance of the Inspector Hound. The rising action would be the internal struggles that Moon and Birdboot are having.

He writes about how new prisoners are not receiving the same rehabilitation as he did when he first entered the prison system 17 years ago. Hopkins acknowledges that if he was born later he may still be in prison. Hopkins’ writes, “ The idea is to make prison a secular hell on earth- where the young potential felon will fear to go, where the ex-con will fear to return.” This is very effective as it makes the reader empathize with the new coming prisoners and how they are subjected to the poor rehabilitation programs offered. There is an underlying theme throughout the essay in that prisoners are treated like animals and are thrown in cages regardless of their

In their observation of the Auburn Prison in New York, they found that the use of solitary confinement and subjecting the inmates to complete isolation had serious negative results, in which Beaumont and Tocqueville noted that solitary confinement did not reform and rather killed (Panzarella & Vona, pg 287). As a result, solitary confinement lost much of its popularity over the next couple of decades and later reemerged with the establishment of supermax prisons in the late nineteenth century. Supermax prisons, which is short for maximum security prisons hold the most dangerous convicts using the methods of isolation and solitary confinement to primarily control and direct them. Inmates in maximum security prisons are held in isolated cells for years or even decades as they serve their sentence. In her University of Michigan Journal of law Review, Solitary Confinement, Public Safety, and Recidivism, Prisoner Rights advocate Shira Gordon states, “Unlike the nineteenth century, correctional administrators in modern prisons do not implement solitary confinement for rehabilitative purposes. The goals of modern solitary confinement are simply to incapacitate and assert control over prisoners: the warden and

A few detainees are straightforwardly identified with death from ailments and viciousness. The main route for jail watchmen to control the prisoners is by utilizing sheer

In tears, he recalls his story, “You try to close your feelings off, to feel nothing, to feel no hope. Not to the point where you want to commit suicide, but sometimes I made it to the point to where I said just give me the death penalty.” Paul Redd is not the only inmate who was left feeling dehumanized. Many people who have spent several years in confinement claim they were treated like non-human beings and trapped like animals. Another inmate from Pelican Bay State Prison, Gabriel Reyes states, “It is a lack of stimulation, education, food, and proper medical treatment. It is a lack of being treated like human beings instead of animals (Archdeacon, 2015).” It is not healthy for a human being to spend 22 to 24 hours a day trapped in a cell, all

Ainsley Soli is a good person who does not belong here. At least, that is what she has been telling herself the last two years as she sits alone in solitary confinement in San Quentin State Prison. The only human contact she has had in the last 742 days is with the feral, monstrous guards that pay her a visit with a tray full of slop called prison food every day. She has not spoken one word since May 24, 2014. Sometimes she wishes she could speak, but there is no use talking when no one listens to what you have to say.

Red light floods the room when the only exit opens. My heart stops, but I still stand up. I still stand up and march towards the guards here to escort me, and all the while I can feel my throat refusing to

How would you handle prison? Would you stay you, or would prison change you? Prison, its inmates, and its guards, have many harsh and unforgiving characteristics associated with them. The guards are cruel, and the inmates are frightening people who are often perceived as “crazy”. But why is this? In the summer of 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo, professor at Stanford University, set out to answer this question.

There are even worse scenarios that exist in today's prisons. The prison guards have little control and prison can be a violent place because again it is not a place that specializes in rehab. On television shows you see inmates stabbing each other and are quick to assume that it is a dramatization, but it really an occurrence that happens often, in prisons all over the world for that matter. In an article by Raphael Rowe he writes about how a part of him died in prison, and he had to be on his guard constantly, "Once, I was sitting in the television room watching football when someone I knew came in and told me to leave the room. I didn't ask questions: I just left and stood outside. A few seconds later, three other guys came running past me, pillow-cases with eye-holes cut out over their heads, carrying a huge cooking pot full of hot oil. I heard the screams long before some young black guy - a sex offender - came running out, his skin dripping from his face." Such horrid tales should let the general public know that we need to reevaluate

I hear them get closer and closer as the porch creaks every step to the door. My heart feels like its pounding through my chest, and sweat is pouring off my face as I sprint in a panic. I hear the key turning and the door opening just as I jump out the window.

coming after him. All I could think is how scary this was and I wanted out. Not two