Inhumane In Stanford County Prisons

Most individuals with authority will likely abuse their power. Such as demonstrated in the Stanford Prison experiment, where participants played the role of guards and prison in a mock-prison. This experiment was supposed to last two weeks but only lasted six days because the guards were buying abusive and the prisoners became anxious and highly stressed. Also, in this experiment, the man who conducted this experiment lost side track of the purpose of the experiment and that it is not an actual prison. Although, the experiment was just an experiment, the individuals who were the guards loss awareness of that and abuse their positions as guards. These individuals we don’t know how their characteristics, nor their personalities. We know they comply their behavior to fit the role of a guard. We can see this in the Flint water crisis since the people in positions that they need to protect the well- being of their people just as the guards who purpose is to maintain order in the prison not abuse the prisoners. We assume people in authority didn’t want to harm any individuals purposely. People with positions with authority, such as the governor of the state didn’t want to say one of the city

Despite the fact that my parents have worked in the criminal justice system for many years, I have never given much thought to the treatment of prisoners. As we learned from the readings, the current state of the United States criminal justice system is imperfect to the point of cruelty to those involved in it. This is truer for individuals with a mental illness. Due to a lack of psychiatric facilities throughout Alabama and overcrowding of those that do exist, many criminal offenders with mental illnesses are sent to prisons instead. State prisons are currently overcrowded, leading to substandard conditions such in almost every aspect.

New Life Prison is a private prison located in an unincorporated area of Brentwood, CA New Life prison is a dormitory setting and a minimum security prison for level one and two male inmate population of 500. New Life Prison is too focused on lowering the recidivism rate in CA. New Life prison is a new private prison and receives funding from grants and donations. New Life mission is to focus on the level one and two inmate’s within the state prison system. New Life mission is to help these individuals move on passed the crime they have committed and began to live their life again. In 2004 Folsom state prison was able to move their level one and two inmates to a minimum security facility (Department of Correction 2015). Most of these inmates

“Closed in a room my imagination becomes the universe and the rest of the world in missing out”. Solitary Confinement has been dated back to the 19th century and had been researched by a variety of scholars and academics. In 1818 a New York reformer Thomas Eddy and a friend lobbied for inmate labor and solitary confinement in place of other forms of punishment such as hanging. Soon after New York decided to include solitary confinement and inmate labor into their penal system. Mental instability has been then linked to solitary confinement since as far back as the 1860s. It has been put in place for criminals, who put themselves and others in danger or the risk of hurting someone else or themselves. Prisoners who are put in solitary confinement

California has one of the most dysfunctional and problematic prison system in US. Over the last 30 years, California prison increased eightfolds (201). California Department of Correctional and Rehabilitation (CDCR) does little to reform prisoners and serve as human warehouse rather than a correction institution. California's prison system fails the people it imprisons and society it tries to protect. In many cases, California's prison system exacerbates the pre-existing problems and aids in the formation of new problems for prisoners. This paper discuses the criminogenic effects of overcrowding, and reduction/elimination of programs and how it negatively affects California and the ballooning prison population and possible remedies.

Ironically, most prisoners housed in solitary confinement are not the “worst of the worst,” or the most dangerous or violent (Gordon, 2014), in fact I could not find any evidence to support the theory that solitary confinement makes prisons safer or that it deters violence within the prison. The studies I did read about showed that solitary confinement may actually be doing the opposite it may be increasing the violence in prisons. Colorado, Maine, and Mississippi have all reduced the numbers of prisoners in solitary confinement without an increase in prison violence (Gordon, 2014).

Very few prison systems and prison facilities use the term “solitary confinement:, instead referring to prison “segregation” or placement in “restrictive housing” (Solitary Watch, FAQ).

Solitary Confinement can leave a psychological scar and impact upon cognitive functions on an individual. Modern-day terms for solitary confinement is known as the box or the shoe. It is classified to prisoners as a prison within the prison. In order to get sent to solitary confinement, a prisoner must commit an offense within the prison to earn a trip to the “box”. It’s the worst possible punishment you can face in prison. Solitary confinement is being locked down for twenty-three hours a day with one hour of recreation time. Solitary confinement can take a heavy toll on an inmate’s mental health.

The guards are brutal, they use force to scare the prisoners to do as they are told and completely rely on threats and intimidation to keep their position. The power that they hold may be very strong at their peak but when power relies on abuse and dishonesty is can not last forever.

On May 23, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that condition in California’s prisons violated its Eight Amendment Rights under the “cruel and unusual punishment.” The lower courts ordered that the state must lower and reduce its inmate population. This was due to California’s stricter punishment, inadequate transition program (rehabilitation) and the implementation of “three strikes” law, in which the state prison population grew tremendously. Additionally, because tougher laws has increased the population of inmates, it has also became a major challenges to our correctional professionals. With the influx of inmates, it has created more issues with more violent inmates, to include, the lack of services for those that are suffering from mental

Most of the guards appeared to enjoy the power and authority that they had over the prisoners, and although the there was some guards hesitant to join; they eventually end up becoming assertive and behaving in the same way. This is a perfect example on how someone good with no bad history is capable of becoming evil or allowing evil to happen in order to blend in with their role and/or the environment.

I have studied the Stanford prison study before in a criminal justice class, I believe in ethics. I find the study to be disturbing, especially when it was only for six days. I understand that it was a study, but everyone had an idea that it wasn’t a typical setting and that they hadn’t really done anything wrong. I was a cop in the military and I found it to be over the top. I have been in many situations where I had to be in charge over others, and I never, ever, behaved badly. I have always been fair and I have never felt I was entitled to act a certain way because of my given role. I do feel people have a higher degree of responsibility when they are in a role of authority over someone, and that should not be abused. If you find

Should the government ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile offenders?The goals and aims of the criminal justice system were greatly reformed in America, largely because of religion. Originally, the criminal justice system had one of two goals-torture or deterrence. This form of punishment has also been used in juvenile detention centers. Emotional perspective taking involves people’s attempts to estimate the attitudes, preferences, and behaviors of other people who are in different emotional situations. We propose a dual judgment model in which perspective takers first predict what their own reactions would be to different emotional situations, and, second, adjust these self-predictions to accommodate perceived differences between

When someone is an inmate in a prison they are given very few rights so guards feel like they can do whatever they want to them. However, there is a line to disciplining inmates. Rikers Island in New York was subject to a lot of brutality claims in 2006. In October 5th of 2005 an inmate and a guard had and altercation which ended with the inmate slashing the guard in the face with a sharpened watch face. The inmate fled but, was soon apprehended the guards wanted to send a message “Guards were intent on sending a message. Dozens of infuriated guards, dressed in riot gear and armed with batons, stormed the cellblocks bent on revenge. Who’s in charge of this house? a guard screamed at Michael LoMonaco as he punched him repeatedly. You are, you are! LoMonaco screamed back but it did not stop the beatings. LoMonaco, a mental health patient, was among dozens of prisoners who were beaten as they lay handcuffed on their bunks”. (Hunter Gary) These were not the only incidents a lawsuit in 2002 which was settled on behalf of 20 prisoners in 2006 “Among the most notable victims were Shawn Davis who was blinded in one eye, Eric Richards received a ruptured eardrum and Charles Paige suffered a fractured cheekbone The very first blow was to my face, said Paige. He was handcuffed behind his back at the time”. (Hunter Gary) Paige, a 46-year old Muslim was undergoing a cell search when a guard stepped on

In the film, Shawshank Redemption, the director Frank Darabont introduces a key idea that prison is capable of taking prisoner's power to control their lives, their reputation and morality. The director shows that the prison over powers the prisoners lives too much that the prisoners forget about their selves and the way to control and the way to control their own lives. It is good if the guards over powers the prisoners in order to lead them to teach them justice and morality. However, the director also shows that prisoners see and treat them as animals that they do not have any heart wanting to transform the prisoners into a better person. They only see them as criminals and this reveals how the society sees the prisoners as well. We stereotype that they are only criminals but the society also have forgotten that prisoners are human as