Incarceration In Prison

In, “The Caging of America”, by Adam Gopnik explains the problems in the in the American criminal justice system focusing more on the prison system. Some of the struggles that Gopnik states in his article are mass incarceration, crime rate, and judges giving long inappropriate sentencings to those with minor crimes. He demonstrates that inmates are getting treated poorly than helping them learn from their actions. Using facts and statistics, Gopnik makes his audience realize that there is an urgent need of change in the American prison system. The main idea of Gopnik’s article is that the prison system needs to improve its sentencing laws because prisons are getting over crowed. Gopnik’s argument is valid because there is a problem in the sentencing laws that has caused a malfunction in the prison system as a whole.

The article talks about how a man named, Rodney Roberts was incarcerated for kidnapping and rape, which he said that he didn't commit. Roberts states, “Seventeen years I was gone. I had to understand and process the changes to society, the technology, the cultural changes, the geographical changes” (Roberts). Once you are free from jail, you have to realize that things in the community are not going to be the same anymore. You are going to come across things that you are not use to anymore, but think about if this would happen while in jail.

Since the 1970’s the American incarceration rate has increased by a factor of 7. The United States holds the majority of the world’s prisoners. “The land of the free” is home to 5% of the world’s population, but contains 25% of its prisoners. People are also being held in jail for longer. Although most crimes are committed by young men, the number of US prisoners over age of 50 has increased by 330% since 1994.

Incarceration should not be the only form of punishment in the United States just like it is not in most developed nations. I agree with Dr. Bryant’s week three statements about the word discretion being used as camouflage for discrimination. The stakeholders in the criminal justice system used huge amount of discretion when performing their duties. In this case, the law enforcement officers, prosecutors, defenders, judges etc. The police officer can decide when making an arrest to handcuff the accused, send the accused to the community based service program or gave the accused a ride to his or her parent and warn the accused not to do it again. It all depends on how the officer chooses to use the discretion at his disposal. Indiscriminate

Per the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), nearly 50% of current inmates are jailed for nonviolent offenses (Federal Bureau of Prisons, n.d.). Almost 68% (two-thirds) of inmates return to prison within three years of being released, and 77% (three-quarters) were arrested within five years of leaving (Topic, n.d.). These numbers are staggering and seem to go largely ignored by mainstream media and the public. Most of them view people in prison as deserving of it and see no need to offer them (prisoners) help. While there are some prisons that offer rehabilitation in forms such as educational programs, psychiatric treatment and various others, they are largely not implemented in prisons across the country. These programs are detrimental in helping inmates cope with prison life and ease the transition back into civilian life. Psychiatric treatment is of the utmost importance as it benefits inmates tremendously. College programs are another key beneficial factor in prison. Seeing as in prior years, a lot of inmates failed to find work after leaving jail. In more recent years, more and more programs are being added to prisons for inmates to take advantage of as well as the return of Pell grants for them. The programs allow inmates to train and become certified while in jail, and offer employment after being released. At least giving some hope to those who have none while incarcerated. Prison rehabilitation should be offered to inmates because it helps with psychological programs,

The prison system has been in the US for decades now and leads the race with the most incarcerated people. Over time our correctional system changed immaculately and with so many changes, issues continue to rise. The issues included in our system vary from state and federal levels but they’re all are very similar in many ways such as the budget crises, overcrowding, the controversy of parole, who we should incarcerate and why or why not our correctional system has been effective. Is prison being seen as a common ground now for many is slowly starting to lose its purpose, and is parole really helping the government solve its budget crisis when it comes to the correctional system? These are a few of the question brought up by many and have the attention of the public.

In this paper, we will be discussing how community corrections affect society. In addition, we will examine my hypothesis about community corrections and their overall effectiveness in the correctional system. Furthermore, we will describe prison systems in foreign countries, as well as how other nations view and practice imprisonment. Moreover, we will discuss what might happen with the United States prison systems if we adopted another country’s prison system. Finally, I will give my thoughts and recommendations on the type of community corrections to implement in my community.

In most situations, once a juvenile has been accused of a crime, the individual appears in court and the case is heard by a judge. The judge will determine the sentence the juvenile has to complete. According to the NCCP, most juveniles receive punishment, such as community service of probation (Kihl 10). When the youth face the possibility of incarceration in an adult prison, juveniles will less likely receive any rehabilitative or therapeutic services in the facility. The youth who are charged with most serious and violent crimes are more likely to tried as adults and more likely to be sent and sentenced to an adult prison, Juveniles that minor offenses, such as, theft or burglary, are more likely to be sent to a juvenile center. Because

In light of experiential data ascertaining that African Americans are beyond probably to be detained for particular crimes, and the equivalent probability that, once detained, they are beyond probable to be convicted. Incarceration has turned out to be the reaction of the primary course of action for exceedingly numerous societal problems for inconvenience individuals whom are entrenched in poverty. Though these problems are indirectly being suitably classified collectively underneath the classification crime and through the involuntary ascription of illegal acts to individuals of color. Vagrancy, joblessness, insanity, and drug infatuation are merely an insufficient number of troubles that vanish from the opinion of the community as soon as

I’ve found some ideas and thoughts that I agree with and they also seem correct to me. From what I’ve learnt a year ago from a psychology class, the United States has the highest criminal rate among the developed countries, and a very high rat of poverty as well. Most people do think that the solution to reduce criminal actions is to punish those criminals and separate them from the society. I agree that the use of incarceration isn't the solution. I remember a short film from my abnormal psychology class discussing about those people who had mental issue being locked up in a jail instead of being treated with any proper medical or psychological care. After being released from the jail, they did the same thing that violated the laws simply because they were not educated, helped, and cared during the time in jail, and they

It is common knowledge that one of the primary penalties of violating the law is incarceration. Civilians, those who are not in the business of law enforcement, and even some professionals in the criminal justice field, throw around the terms jail and prison quite often, using them interchangeably. Jails and prisons are not the same. This paper will elucidate some of the primary differences between jails and prisons as well as draw a few similarities between them.

A prison is the place individuals lack personal freedom and are physically restricted from day to day activities they are used to in the free world. Furthermore, those anticipating trials and those serving a term surpassing one year are limited here, while a correctional facility or jail is the place detainees are housed preceding their trials on nearby level and those serving a term of one year or less. The general public is shielded from the guilty parties by them being bound in jails, where their behaviors can be observed, or they can be set in group based facilities which are secured and offer an open door for the detainees to gain abilities and learning through business related exercises. The correctional facilities then again fill the need of keeping law guilty parties of which they should be information on the purpose behind detainment as they experience the procedure of criminal justice. The correctional facilities do as such by holding individuals who are anticipating trials, waiting to be sentenced, the individuals who have as of now been sentenced and are being held to be taken to prison, and law violators who don’t have enough money to pay the

With the age of enlightenment, many sought to revolutionize the system of punishing offenders. Moving from the barbaric practices of the earlier centuries, many governmental officials sought to ride crime through deterrence. Thus the birth of the prison system began. They believed that taking away a person’s freedom was a way to scare offenders into not committing criminal acts. However, with the number of incarcerated offenders increasing yearly, the statistics show that the penal system is a failure. This essay will look at the history of the penal system and how the focus on deterrence and not rehabilitation led to failure of the penal system.

Over the past generation, the landscape of sentencing prisoners has changed dramatically. Over this same period, United States of America has made a number of modifications in one of the basis of American criminal justice policy, Prison Term. Prison Terms has taken the place of public flogging, death penalty and torture. Stastics has shows that many states has abolished death penalty. Today in order to deter the crime, Nowadays, only few states in the United States of America such as Texas, practices Death Penalty. Nevertheless, many fierce criminals are sentenced for a long prison term; in order to ensure public safety. In a response to fight against crime, there is an increase in the use of imprisonment. Conversely, many state legislatures have reduced prison term, discharging more prisoners (directly to the society) in order to maintain the prison management. A statistics of released prisoners over the decade/

The Unites States has the largest prison population in the world, and it is still growing. Calculated in both raw numbers and by percentage of the population, the United States has the most prisoners of any developed country in the world (Flatow, 2014). It is said that more than 1.57 million inmates sat behind bars in federal, state, and country prisons and jails around the country as of December 31, 2013. It did not start out this way. Up until the 1950’s the functions, components, and actions of carrying out criminal sanctions regularly used the term penal, and penal institutions (prisons) and penal systems (organizations to carry out punishment) emphasized the principal function of implementing punishment in the handling of criminal