Rehabilitated In Prison

Prisons should be about teaching someone how to live a normal life and give them the tools to do that instead of just letting prisoners leave and not be a better person. One prison guard stated, “IT is not likely that inmates will have a few good years then get back into the crime game but 6/10 inmates will be back within the first year of release,”. This was not just a problem of weather the prison is in the city or the suburbs, but it is how the prisons work and what is being done to help the prisoners move back into the real world as good members of a society. I interviewed a guard at a local prison who wished to stay anonymous “I am beginning to think that these inmates can not be helped. It is a harsh thing to say but it is the truth.When I started this job I had real hope that I would be touching every prisoner's lives for the good of the world but as time went on I learned that these men and women do not leave here as good people”.There are people who devote their lives to changing the prison system but no major change has happened in the last 10 years, things have only gotten worse.My question was to find out why prisoners who

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Everyone knows that you can’t help someone unless they want to help themselves. When the prison system was first established, the possibilities in rehabilitation were nothing like they are

Thesis: Private prisons actually exacerbate many of the issues they were designed to solve by incentivizing increased incarceration, and at the same time they produce lower value than regular prisons while ultimately costing more, such that private prisons should be abolished and incarceration should remain exclusively public.

After a long term sentence has been served many parolees have a hard time reintegrating back into a normal society. They has limited resources upon release, face problems with receiving benefits from the state, receiving housing, employment, and everything that factors into a normal lifestyle. Most inmates are released back into their communities in which they came from.

Bohn & Hanley (2011) expresses a clear dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated in the United States since the early 1970’s, mostly because of drugs (pg. 365). Another notable fact reveals the increase of confinement is the rising charge in price per day to house prisoners; as well, keep jails and prison overcrowded to make more profit (Bohn & Hanley, 2011, pg.369). Although efforts to provide alternatives methods to long-term incarceration exists, the fact still remains that private sectors that own prisons and jails still depend on a high rate of imprisonment (Bohm & Hanley, 2011, pg. 370). Noticeably, the strategic approach taken is to build larger facilities to house more offenders, make more profit from their crimes and

Privatizing prisons may be one way for the prison population to get back under control. Prisons are overcrowded and need extra money to house inmates or to build a new prison. The issue of a serious need for space needs to be addressed. “As a national average, it costs roughly $20,000 per year to keep an inmate in prison. There are approximately 650,000 inmates in state and local prisons, double the number five years ago. This costs taxpayers an estimated $18 billion each year. More than two thirds of the states are facing serious overcrowding problems, and many are operating at least 50 percent over capacity. (Joel, 1988)” Private prisons may be for profit, but if they can solve the issue of cost then it may be a

America has roughly 2 percent of its citizens incarcerated, but has twenty-five percent of the world's incarcerated inmates. Along with this, are the numerous upheavals of corporations that make profit in the field of corrections. ‘For-profit’ corrections companies, such as CCA (Corrections Corp. of America), are subsidized by the government, costing less money to run than state-run or federal prisons. But to what extent do these companies go to make a profit? Well, these companies are in the sole business of making money. One of the ways they do that is squeezing as many people as possible into prisons (a term some researchers call “warehousing”). Other sneaky tactics includes wordy contracts with state penalization for incorrect inmate quotas

My biggest takeaway I learned from this class that is described in one way is empathy. Having empathy for an individual regardless of their gender, race, or culture to judge will help an individual grow. Someone who is struggling in their lives who get harassed constantly due their appearance or how they act can really appreciate a person who doesn't judge them for those aspect and accepts them for who they want to be. This is essential growing up as people are figuring who they are or what they want and having empathy for an individual creates a way to understand them better.

Various evidenced based and offender reentry programs reveal that rehabilitation is an effective method for reducing recidivism. Rehabilitation identifies and addresses the root cause of the criminal act. There are several elements of prison rehabilitation programs that significantly influence its effectiveness. Furthermore, a successful rehabilitation program embodies more than one element.

The first privately-owned, or for-profit, prison opened its doors in 1983 to 350 inmates (Beiser). These establishments have continued to spring up across the nation by selling themselves as a cheap and effective alternative to their government owned predecessors; however, these establishments may cost the same or even more in comparison (Beiser) tend to cut corners in many important areas causing an uptake in profit as well as prisoner abuse and mistreatment. Privatization of prisons is unlawful and often leads to corruption. Prisons were first established to fill a need to punish and rehabilitate inmates, but by looking at prisons as opportunities to gain a profit, the very inmates were try to help and educate end up being sought after like cattle and treated as such. These for-profit prisons fail to prove that they are cost efficient, more effective in management, or give better services to inmates.

Sandra’s statement in the video fits very well to the knowledge I have acquired in this course- Offender Rehabilitation (CRJS491). To a very large extent, it covers all the aspects I have learned and continues to prove every bit of it to be true as I listened to her. True to the knowledge I received from this course, that offenders treatment needs to be done by qualified professionals, who have the knowledge of different models that are fitting for different offenses, Sandra’s statement advocates for the necessity of exploring different aspects of offender rehabilitation for the treatment of an offenders in rehabilitation . Suggesting the needfulness of professionals to use, as many treatment resources as they can get, to help offenders-

It is very costly if someone is found innocent then we have to pay a settlement ranging depending on the state and how much time spent incarcerated. Statutes should include either a fixed sum or a range of recovery for each year spent in prison. President George W. Bush endorsed Congress’s recommended amount of up to $50,000 per year, with up to an additional $50,000 for each year spent on death row. Adjusted for inflation, this amount is $63,000 (Compensating The Wrong, n.d.). In September 2013, Robert “Rider” Dewey, collected the first $100,000 annual installment of $1.2 million he received from Colorado officials for his wrongful conviction, almost a year-and-a-half after his release from prison (Watson,2015).

The word “prison” is perceived as a cold, dark, and petrifying place for imprisoning people of society who break the law. U.S prisons are considered economically unjustified. According to National Association of State Budget Officers, “…$9 out of every $10 that support imprisonment come from the same pot of money. With tens of billions of dollars in prison spending annually, states are finding that there is simply less discretionary money available to invest in education, especially in these lean economic times.” Prisons are economically unjust due decline in resources, and huge corporations rising in wealth.

Many people go to prison for many different things. Their offenses could be drugs, murder, even not paying speeding tickets. To help them go back into society after being in prison for a long time, they need rehabilitation. They need to learn how to be reformed and fix their morals about good and bad. It can easy or even a challenge to help those that are locked away with many restrictions. “Too often, their unlawful are a reflection of a life plagued by social, economic and familial problems far beyond their control," (Fritz 1 of 3). They might make bad decisions based on their morals. You acquire your morals from those around you, how you 're raised, the

As Michael Neminski states: . Furthermore, in prisons there are many experienced criminals who do lead the younger ones. Therefore, they teach them how to be better criminals. Unfortunately, it is not the other way around, i.e., when released from prison, instead of being better persons for the society, and, what is more, for themselves, they get at being proficient criminals. Not only is this true in some countries of the world, but it is also a fact globally known. In addition, many investigations have been made on this issue. For instance, Donald T. Hutcherson II states: .On one hand, prisoners may be led into the "darker" world due to their being afraid of the most powerful "leaders" in prison. Thus, they might become even more dangerous than the time when they were imprisoned. On the other hand, many prisoners are eager to improve their skills which are the reason why they are behind bars. Anyway, none of these ways lead to real community-friendly improvement. Therefore, an immediate transformation from classical prisons into rehabilitation centres is