Inside Russia's Toughest Prisons Analysis

The United States needs to crack down on crime and punish criminals to set an example. This is a very unpopular notion that is “backwards” however The United States prisons have not been doing a good job with punishing and rehabilitating criminals. Life is fairly comfortable, free cable, access to educational opportunities and psychiatric counseling in prisons, on average 52% of criminals return to crime. These people that committed horrible acts and need to be separated from society gets a life where everything is paid for and they worry about very little. Before recent time’s people avoided prison because they knew it would be hard. Why? Because it was not nice inside. Today however prison is easier to live in and it’s an easy life.

Joe is a prisoner in a United States penitentiary convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and attempted robbery. Johan is a prisoner in a Norwegian Correctional Facility also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and attempted robbery. After eight years of serving their time in custody, they are released back out into society, the world beyond their prison walls. During the following month after their release, Joe has once again been arrested for assault and attempted robbery while Johan has started making a quiet living as a deckhand on the coast for a small fishing company in Kopervik. Now both men have the same background and have come out of the same circumstances but yet only one reverts back to a life a crime, why?

The dominance of Soviet Russia’s government and societal norms are key factors that control the fate of those who live in the area. Soviet Russia, well known for their communistic society, is deemed by Americans as a place with “horrors” and can be seen by outsiders as amusing (70). Katya’s lover, an oblivious American, inquires about these horrors as a way of seeking “some entertainment—for an easy amusing, and preferably sexy story about the exotic world to which his lover belonged” (70). Unfamiliar with the Russian communist lifestyle, Katya’s lover is merely a spectator to the customs and culture of Katya’s homeland, which seem oppressive in nature to him. On the other spectrum, Katya is startled and unaccustomed to the perception others might have of the society she comes from. She reminisces on miniscule happenings such as the lack of freedom of

Were it a testimony to the rigors and cruelness of human nature, it would be crushing. As it is, it shatters our perception of man and ourselves as no other book, besides perhaps Anne Franke`s diary and the testimony of Elie Wiesl, could ever have done. The prisoners of the labor camp, as in Shukhov?s predicament, were required to behave as Soviets or face severe punishment. In an almost satirical tone Buinovsky exclaims to the squadron that ?You?re not behaving like Soviet People,? and went on saying, ?You?re not behaving like communist.? (28) This type of internal monologue clearly persuades a tone of aggravation and sarcasm directly associated to the oppression?s of communism.

A documentary is an expository text that informs its audience about an issue person or event using visual and auditory conventions to convey a message. Documentaries are often used to reveal an unusual, interesting or unknown angle. Topics are limited only by one's imagination. The documentary Blackfish is the story of Tilikum, a captive killer whale that has taken the lives of several people, it underscores problems within the sea-park industry, man's relationship to nature, and how little has been learned about these highly intelligent mammals. This documentary was directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. The ideas that orcas are wild and unpredictable, Seaworld’s treatment of orcas are inhumane and Seaworld’s was negligent in their training of their trainers. These ideas are shown throughout the documentary as visual techniques of Celebrity figure, expert opinion, audio codes, the documentary technique of interviews, archival footage and written codes. I think these ideas in the documentary are quite true and are well proven throughout the documentary.

As our text points out, the social construction of the correctional system is largely based on that which is portrayed in the media, particularly the movies. This stems from the fact that most of the population has no experience knowledge or conversational knowledge about corrections. Therefore, the bulk of our knowledge comes from media related imagery. The media and by proxy the general public are looking for the flashy news stories that grab your attention and shock our sensibilities. Not surprisingly, a typical day in prison, which is largely mundane and routine, doesn’t seem to fit the bill. However, when an atypical event occurs, such as a riot or a prison break, that routine is suddenly thrown into disarray, and the prison is thrust

The Gulag was an enormous system of labor camps which was once dispersed over the Soviet Union.The word “GULAG” means “Main Camp Administration”, the institution which ran the Soviet camps. In other words, it is specified as punishment camps or labor camps. The camps operated from the 1930s until the 1950s. The first was formed in 1918. There were an estimated 14 million people who held in the Gulag labor camps from 1929 to 1953 with a total of around from 1934 to 1953. Most Gulag prisoners were not political prisoners. Petty crimes and jokes directed at the Soviet government and officials were condemned by incarceration. Many of the prisoners in the Gulag camps were incarcerated without a trial and were immediately sent to Gulags without hesitation; The Gulag was diminished in size following Stalin's death in 1953, in a period known as the ‘Khrushchev Thaw.’ Joseph Stalin was the “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” The Gulag system was prefaced to separate and eliminate people whose deeds and thoughts were not contributing to the dictatorships power of the proletariat.

Today, the group presenting Russian Orthodoxy and culture performed exceptionally. I learned that there were many aspects of Russian culture and Orthodoxy that can be seen throughout Crime and Punishment. Particularly, I found the marriage aspect and the effects of sin extremely prevalent.

This research study was to exam whether the environment of prison changed the personalities and the brutalities that were being statistically reported based off the average American prison and Officer atmosphere. Zimbardo wanted to use this experiment to truly verify whether the actions of prisoners and guards is factually situations based and the individuals would conform to their new environments. The research gained a lot od attentions both negative and positive.

How being in prison not only effects the prisoners but the guards as well is something that we needed to learn about. In 1971 at the time of the study there was a problem with assaults in prison but it wasn’t known if it was mainly from the personalities that were in the prison or the prison environment itself. In trying to figure out which one it was there were some interesting results that came from the prison set up inside one of the buildings in Stanford. While this “prison” wasn’t exactly like a modern day prison it did have some similarities. While there were three to a room cells with no windows or anything on the walls, like a normal prison, they didn't provide adequate sunlight or even treat them as well as actual prisoners. The students went into this study looking forward to getting paid for two weeks of work where they had a place to sleep, food to eat and people to talk to. What they actually got though was six days of torture essentially. This turned into something way too real for the students, especially the prisoners. No longer was this a fun two week experiment, this was what do I need to do to make this as painless as possible. According to Saul McLeod, “90% of the prisoners’ private conversations, which were monitored by the researchers, were on the prison conditions, and only 10% of the time were their conversations about life outside of the

As we have begun to touch upon, as it stands the UK and largely global stance on substance use to date, has been one of control, punishment and persecution. It is, therefore, inevitable that this will have enormous and some would argue, catastrophic effects on our prison system, consequently, it is crucial that at this early stage of the paper that this is approached. The Penal Reform International (PRI), an independent non-governmental organisation that aims to develop and promote fairer, more effective and proportionate responses to criminal justice problems worldwide, recently released the report Global Prison Trends 2015: Drugs and Imprisonment (PRI, 2015). The Aim of the report was to describe global trends in imprisonment and substance

The book “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” has misery flowing from every nook and cranny, to the point of exhaustion. But how could life really be like this? The answer to that is that the events in this story are disturbingly accurate to real life. From before the beginning of World War II to years following its end, camps known as Gulags existed for prisoners and political criminals. The outstanding characteristics of these camps included extreme weather,

“Gulag” was a monumental account of the Soviet labor camp system, a chain of prisons that by Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s calculation some 60 million people had entered during the 20th century. The book led to his expulsion from his native land. George F. Kennan, the American diplomat, described it as “the greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times.”

As an allegorical commentary, the book supersedes the previous assumptions made upon superficial analysis of the book as solely a prison novel and now becomes a question of “How does one survive in Stalinist Russia, which is like a gulag?” rather than “How does one stay alive in a prison camp?” By assuming that Solzhenitsyn intended the book to be interpreted in this way, the book is seen as more of political attack on the Soviet Union during the Stalin era.

Through out history correction systems have been constantly upgraded and enhanced. It was first designed to hold prisoners who were awaiting trial. In past history prisons were old dungeons and castles. Boats were also used to house prisoners if there was an overflow of inmates. Prisons control where, when, and what inmates do on a twenty-four seven basis. Inmates were forced to work within the prison, and were also leased out to farmers to work, which in return exhausted them making it easier for officers to control. As time goes on new ways of controlling and housing each prisoner is improving, and new technology is our key to improving that. New surveillance cameras, robots, and defense weapons are examples of how our modern day prisons