Essay on Prison Violence

IN a twenty year period there was little evidence to suggest cocorrectional prisons are effective in benefiting female prisoners (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). In fact, males have exploited most females before entering prison, and these females continue being exploited in current coed facilities (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Surprisingly, even though single sex prisons have poor results, there is no support to change this format (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015).

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

Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com, a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes. Some riots are characterized by organization and demands, others by weak and confused formation of leadership, or conflict and violence among inmates themselves. In some riots, prisoners inflict suffering on hostages, inmates treat hostages well,

In addition to adaptive roles, the film also portrays many instances and forms of prison violence. Prisons provide all of the necessary conditions to host violence (288). The film depicts instances of prisoner-prisoner violence in the form of sexual victimization, prison gangs, and illicit violence by officers against

Prison rape in jail can ultimately bring hierarchy between the weaker and the stronger. Although many would believe rape offenders in men’s prisons are mainly homosexuals, studies have shown that homosexuals are more likely to be sexually abused than perpetrators. In prison it is actually known that men become rapists to overpower their victims. Patriarchal systems of power, male incentive to overpower the weaker, exist both outside and inside of jail. In any community, women are seen as weak; therefore, men tend to overpower women. Most prisoners have this same mentality; therefore since there are no women to overpower they decide to suppress the weaker or smaller sized inmates. Victims are also effeminized and given tasks to perform such as cleaning dishes and cooking food. Physiologists believe that prison rape is not caused by the lack of women, but “mainly as a means by which people who have been stripped of control over the most basic aspects of their lives- when to eat a meal, take a shower, or watch TV- can reclaim some sense of power.”(Brook) According to Wilbert Rideau, a Louisiana prisoner wrote “the

Contrary to popular belief sexually transmitted diseases are not the only physical harm victims of prison rape endure. Many rape victims endure broken bones, broken noses, bruises, cuts, concussions, and the obvious genital injuries. Sexual assaults also increases violent behavior in prisons because inmates who feel like they may be a future target of sexually assault, defend themselves, and lash out in these violent rages and fights to establish themselves with a “tough guy” reputation to prevent any sexual misconduct from other inmates.

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.

Violence, Abuse, and death in for-profit prisons is much more common than in a regular public prison, because of the higher security and awareness. Stated in my first argument, inmate on inmate assaults are 65% more frequent in private prisons and escape and violence is 49% more frequent. In the article Violence, Abuse, and Death At For-Profit Prisons the author Brendan Fischer uses a incident that happened in the jail house “A woman committed suicide at GEO Group-Operated Val Verde County jail in Texas. Shortly before her death, the woman reported that she had been raped and assaulted by male inmates who were housed in the same cell block. She also reported being sexually humiliated by a GEO guard after reporting to the warden that guards allowed male and female inmates to have sex” ( Fisher ). Proving the factuality of studies that claim inmate on guard assaults is higher in private prisons rather than public prisons. Another study talks about the

Also, data obtained from the studies of Pace International Law Review led to the statistics that, “Only 51% reported the assault and an atrocious 3% of the reported assaults resulted in the discipline of the abuser.” (Ashmont 6) This builds on the matter of prison officials committing these crimes and not receiving punishments for their actions. Though certain cases of sexual assault are reported to higher powers, not many are taken into account. These statistics add to the overall idea that the occurrences of sexual assault in prison are treated as lightweight matters. Due to the low percentage of cases that follow through to discipline the abuser, more prisoners are held back from informing the authorities. Likewise, newfound evidence confirms that “Victims of prison rape suffer severe physical and psychological injuries that greatly hinder the ability to integrate in to the community...” (Ashmont 11) These effects are one of the many reasons why prison rape should be taken more seriously and why the abusers, no matter their authority, should be severely punished. Though these punishments will not fully compensate for their actions or rid the victims of the emotional effects, they bring prisons one step closer to reforming the system.

The population at the prison is growing dramatically in the US. In 2013 the population in at the US State and Federal prisons were nearly 1.6 million inmates. Many inmates are serving long sentence at these facilities, and many of them are not immune to violence. In fact, most prisoners are still committing crimes within the walls of the correctional. There’s many factor contributing causes for violence, either between prisoners or between inmates and prison staff.

Sexual abuse has always been a major issue in prisons, and especially in prisons of the United States, because of the diversity of its body. Lots of people only pay attention and care about cases of sexual assault outside of prisons. Inmates are also humans and the problem of sexual violation in jails should be as primary as outside of them, because people suffering from sexual assault are prone to be depressed or become mentally unstable. There are different explanations for people to commit the act of sexul assault, the roots of which are coming from sexual desire, depression, anger or prison traditions. There are also many ways to prevent sexual assault in prisons, like allowing inmates to express

The sociological conflict perspective views state of clash and struggle between haves and haves-not in all societies and cultures of the world (Turner, 1978:160). Being the essential part of society, the same conflict could also be found in prisons, where the strong, powerful and affluent prisoners treat the weak, feeble and poor prisoners to be their slaves. The haves not only force the haves-not to remain at their service, but also increase the intensity of criminal aptitude among them. Sexual exploitation serves as the most heinous crime practiced within the prisons, where the weak prisoners are assaulted, tortured and raped by the influential prisoners as well as the members of prison administration. Such a state of affair multiplies the sense of crime among the prisoners, which intend to carry on committing crimes after their release from prison in order to take revenge of cruelties inflicted upon them by the powerful stratum of society in jails. Somehow, it is not the case in every prison, as some of the prisons strictly discourage the exploitation of the weak at the hands of the

A second issue with the research on this topic is the limited global resources the scholarly authors actually used in their articles. Most of the research used in this assessment is 5 states or less per article, meaning the wider spectrum of violence all over is limited. This creates issues in the accuracy of what the scholarly articles are posing, because each state across the nation is different when recording prison violence (Krause, Keith 2009). Each state follows the same rules but in a different manner. The range of differences used in all the research used for this are concentrated on separate states so the wider variety of information can be obtained. The lack of overall 50 state-wide articles creating prison violence as a whole tends

There are many different ways of holding criminals all around the world, but in some places the jails are feared for their roughness. These places offer punishments and living conditions that make them a dreaded place to be. The punishments at these prisons can range from getting beaten to being full on tortured. In some places the punishment ranges from how bad the crime is, in others all the punishments are the same for each.

Crimes in prison have been a part of our prisons since prisons themselves have been developed. It is almost certain that the criminals who end up in an institution in the first place will commit crimes while incarcerated. Prisons have come a long way over the years and with trial and error they have discovered many effective ways to help drop crime rates. Mail is monitored and read on occasion and is a privilege for inmates that can be taken away. Though many of the new policies and procedures have been effective, it is the well- trained staff that keeps crimes down. Crimes in our prisons have been declining, having the proper staffing in these institution’s plays a crucial part in keeping crimes down.