Personal Narrative: What I Learned From A Prison?

I think I would have acted strong but not as forceful as a guard. I don’t think I would have it in my body to inflict that kind of torture on people regardless of what I was ordered to do. I also think in the told of the prisoner I would do what I was told regardless of how much it may leaving lasting scars. I would have been scared out of my mind as a prisoner so I would have just went along with whatever was being ordered to do. When it comes to the guards, I am pretty confident about not acting like they did in the experiment but when it comes to the way the prisoners acted, I’m not so sure that I wouldn’t act any different than they did. I think they felt trap and alone and that no one care about their wellbeing and I think I would feel

For over centuries, the only form of punishment and discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way of life than what us “normal” humans are accustomed to living in our society. Once that inmate takes their first step inside their new society, their whole mindset on how to live and communicate changes. The inmate’s psychological beliefs about what is right and wrong are in questioned as well as everything else they learned in the outside world. In a way, prison is a never ending mind game you are playing against yourself with no chance of wining. Other than the mental aspect of prison, family plays a very important role in an inmate’s sentence. Family can be the “make it or break it” deal for a lot of inmates. It is often said that “when a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole family serves the sentence.” Well, for many inmates that is the exact case. While that prisoner serves their time behind bars, their family is on the outside waiting in anticipation for their loved ones to be released. In a way, the families

Proceedings of The National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2009 University of Wisconsin La-Crosse La-Crosse, Wisconsin April 16 - 18, 2009

Leonard Peltier is a Native American man currently imprisoned for crimes he did not commit. Peltier is currently serving time in Leavenworth, Kansas, and it is likely that he will live the rest of his life in prison. Examining Peltier’s experiences through several different community systems frameworks will push human service professionals to help not only individuals but whole communities as well. In particular, the ecological systems theory, historical trauma, and the theory of social capital are helpful in making sense of Peltier’s experiences, and seeing them not as random events but as the culmination of years of mistreatment, oppression, and marginalization.

It’s on the hill by the seaside, the clinic. The place that stole my freedom, my sanity.

Sara....do you think.....if I'm a good boy, they'll grant me parole somehow? I mean....I know it's life without parole but is that even set in stone? Do you think after about 25 years they'll see I'm really good and will let me out? I just....I just wanna taste vaginal juices. I'm so thirsty. And eating white trash ass in here is so unsatisfying. Day in and day out they take turns mounting me. After about the 6th hour and 24th inmate, I started to loosen up more and I think I liked it a bit. But my ass stays sore. I constantly am visiting the commissary for Vaseline. But there's just never enough. Must they be so rough? The first time they cornered me in the showers. I thought the guards would help but they all seemed to disappear. He slammed me against the wall and started to whisper terrifying things into my

Ever since I was a child, I constantly encountered the question, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer was always simple: I want to work with people in prison with mental health issues. With each response harvested a look of shock or dismay accompanied by a confused demand--why? Again, the answer was not the product of some deep mystery; I wanted to work with inmates because my father was an inmate.

The minimum security is federal prison camps adjacent to other federal prisons near military bases. Male prisoners who need only minimum security are set up in camps and those who will be transitioned [Passive voice] back into society and served their sentence will be set-up in a halfway house.

The United States Department of Justice has come forth with a statement that they will end the use of private prisons. Sally Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, stated that she has sent a communication to instruct prison officials not to renew any contracts with operators of private prisons or for the diminished use of contracts with already exist. This is the beginning of the process intended to cut and eventually end the use of prisons which are privately operated.

Moreover the jail will hire people who are wanted in other states, and pass them fully and not even look into their backgrounds enough to know. This happened with one male CO which was wanted by the police in Kentucky, because of the disappearance of a girlfriend. The one thing I'm trying to get across is, this jail has a very biased system it using for hiring. Sadly by posting this they will more than likely questions my father and sister. Then have both of them, tell me not to post anything about the jail. Because if your family works there you magically lose all first ammendment rights, which I thought we still had in America. The sad but true thing in any job is knowing names, my dad threw out my sisters and got the job. My mother

I couldn’t handle it anymore. I knew that I would regret not taking the blame for Tilde and her dad, but imagine how much trouble I would be in! Forget the idea of going to prison for many years, instead I would be rotting corpse, hung in front of many people! Okay so I don’t know what the punishment for taking all the blame of bringing a bunch of illegal immigrants is, but I’m pretty sure it’s something related to Guantanamo Bay. My family stared at the floor for what felt like forever, and then I simply walked back to my room, letting sleep ease my mind.

In the years that it was open, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary seemed like a horrid place to live. If I were an inmate sentenced to spend my life at Alcatraz I would try to escape too. I think the three men that attempted to flee in the summer of 1962 were all highly intelligent. They came up with a very intricate, flawless plan, but I believe that the trio’s chances were too small, given their limited resources, to have successfully pulled off the escape. If there was anyway they made it out alive, I think the two skilled swimmers, Clarence and John Anglin could have done it while dropping the weak link, Frank Morris. I think the most accurate information there is about the men’s fate is the picture shown above. Although, the picture that the

At approximately 5:03p.m. Israel Thomas' Mom came down to Mr. Kimpson's room. When she got there she barged in asking, "What is this?" "Is this tutorial or detention?" Mr. Kimpson stated to her, "This is detention." She said, "Oh no he can't stay for that!" She instructed her son to get his things together so that they can leave. When she asked her son, as he was packing up, who assigned detention, he stated Mrs. Northern did. She then came over into my room and said, "Hey, he can't serve a detention and I would appreciate if you have an issue with my son, you call me." I told her, "Ma'am I sent home the letter to inform you that Israel had a detention and he brought it back signed by you." She said, "Yeah I know I signed it but he can't stay for detention." She then stated that, "I know I signed the letter, but I was suppose to call you but I had a lot going on and didn't have time to call." I told her that the only reason he was allowed to stay was because he had permission from her. She said, "No!" "He cannot stay for detention. In the future if y'all have a

For this assignment we had to watch the film From Prison to Home. This film is about people in prison getting out and being on parole. Not only are these people on parole they are trying to live life with obstacles and stay out of trouble. Now this movie in particular follows four men who have been released and are going through a special program, this program is called the African American Program. This program in particular is supposed to be able to help out African Americans get the help they need so they can stay out of trouble. The four men that this movie follows are; Richard, Arthur, Calvin, Randy.

"I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless existence"