Life In Prisons

How did prison conditions for women vary by state in the 1800s? How were they similar? How did they differ from the conditions experienced by male prisoners? Women’s condition in the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries were awful. For example, in New York Newgate prison women were disconnected from mainstream of prison life, and they were later disconnected in penitentiaries. The women had no female prison officer to attend to their domestic, and medical arrangement. Newgate’s women were expected to wash and sew. Male prisoners were selected to shoemaking, and other manufactures. At Bellevue penitentiary women were exposed to unhealthy conditions. There was poor quality and quantity of the food, the absence of proper sanitary, and security precautions. In Auburn the women were held on third- floor attic above the penitentiary’s kitchen.

James Gilligan relays an enlightening message in his article, Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti-Prisons”, about the history and sole purpose of jails. Gilligan dates his research about jails all the way back from the first civilization known to man, Sumerian, to the jails we see and know so well today. At the beginning of time jails literally meant “house of darkness” which when compared to any of today’s jails is very similar to our maximum security facilities with solitary confinement. Jails were first used as a place to house those citizens, who chose not follow the social norms of society, and used a very

The crime she committed was carry $50,000 in drug money from America to France for her drug dealing girlfriend at the time. Along with showing her experiences in prison, they also show other inmates stories and how life landed them in prison. The reason I chose this series is due to all the praise it was receiving by everyone. I previously had no interest in watching the program, but felt it was the best chose for doing this assignment.

The convict indent of the Pyramus (Making Australian History, Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, pp. 97-101) helps to distinguish trends arising with the convicts and their sentences. The Pyramus displays information on 30 convict women who all received a seven-year sentence, except for two who both attained life sentences, albeit similar crimes were committed. This trend highlights why historians might perceive convicts as victims of an unjust legal system, as a woman who had been convicted of quite a minor offence was given the same sentence as one convicted of a severer crime. The majority of women listed in this particular indent were detained for the violation of stealing, which poses the question, were that many women all serious criminals or were they indeed just “good people who lived in difficult times”? Case studies have been completed on several convicts and are an exceptional way of discovering the real personality and traits of individual convicts.

Many inmates found her to be a helpful resource especially when it came to academia. At first jail/prison was hard for George to get accustomed to , as it would be for all first time offenders. What was especially hard for George was the transition to jail/prison being from a middle class family. Her once profound freedom was gone and now she had to abide by the rules of the criminal justice system. Prison protocol such as shakedowns are important to make sure that inmates are not in possession of contraband but also used to make sure an inmate does not have too many of

“The imprisonment boom that began in the late 1970s has swelled the state and federal prison system to more than 1.4 million prisoners.  Adding those

The film explains the story of Andy Dufresne, a young city banker who is sentenced to life in prison after being wrongfully accused of murdering his wife and her lover. The film analyzing the effects of long-term incarceration on individual prisoners by exploring what is called institutionalization. It portrays how individual’s experiences within a prison can rapidly grow onto someone until it is only life one is familiar with and can relate to. It outlines how one has to rely on the institution of the prison itself to remain who he is. Shawshank blurs the line between what is considered right and wrong and furthermore exemplifies the notion that isolating and reforming criminals will turn them into law-abiding citizens.

Law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. This confinement, whether before or after a criminal conviction, is called incarceration.

The growth of incarceration in the United States Prison grew over the last four decades. The trend is historically unprecedented and is unique to the world. The majority of those incarcerated come from disadvantaged populations and comprises of main minorities below the age of forty. The communities have the number of people engaging in crime, drug abuse, alcohol addiction, physical and mental illness and lack of employment. The African Americans and Hispanics form the largest prison population compared to the non-Hispanic whites. The high incarceration has the huge impact on the American society since its inception in the 1960s and 1970s. The changed political environment led to policy changes. All levels of the government altered

GED while incarcerated, but such opportunities depend on the availability of education programs and inmate eligibility for those programs” (Visher, Travis).

According to Alexander, so many black men are missing because they are under the criminal justice system. In today’s society, there has been a mass incarceration of black men due to the federal program called the war on drugs. Because of this mass incarceration, a lot of black men are far from home without being able to raise their children. “Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages” (Alexander 738). African Americans were victims of slavery in the past; however, in today’s society the number of black men in prison is even bigger than the black men enslaved in the past. “More black men are imprisoned today than at any other moment in our nation’s history” (Alexander 740). The war on drugs makes this possible because

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

There have been many changes in the treatment of offenders by the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales, particularly the treatment of female offenders. The handling of women within the criminal justice system has been closely tied to their social characteristics, and to what might be described as their ‘social construction’. On the other hand, women who compromise more than half of the world’s population, account for only 15% of criminal activity and as a consequence, relatively little attention has been given to them. This essay will explore how this has changed from a historical point of view to modern times, with exploration from cross-culture comparisons and an overview of the treatments of females in prisons.

America; the land of the free and the home of the brave. Free, that is, until you break one of America’s many laws and are convicted and sentenced to incarceration in the prison system. Depending on the severity of the crime, one might be sentenced to either a minimum, medium, or maximum security prison.

Mary Reibey was impacted throughout the convict experience. In Mary’s situation she was impacted in mostly a positive way, but also in some negative. While she was convicted and transported to Australia for stealing at horse at the age of thirteen, this strong and determined woman went on to become Australia’s first successful businesswoman. As a very private person, her actions spoke for her during a male dominant period.