South Sudan's Correctional System

A unitary government, or a Uniform Nation have various strengths and weaknesses. One of their best advantages is that there is a sense of uniformity, everyone has a sense of placement. This creates patriotism, which is important to a healthy nation. Another benefit is that change is quick. Being only one government, things a decided quickly, unlike a federal government where deciding a law or restriction undergo a long, lengthy process, being debated and voted upon. Maintaining the nation is easy, reason being there is a set of rules that apply to the entire area, not varying from state to state. Local issues can be dealt with faster and easier with the option of creating local branches of gov’t to deal with those issues. Some disadvantages is that the gov’t can fallout of of sync with the people, not meeting their needs and wants, which could lead to disaster. Since there is only one set of authority over the country, the problems locally could overflow and

According to the conflict theory of dependency, Sudan was taken advantage of, then eventually left on its own. One

Sudan has known conflict for most of its existence. The discovery of oil in 1979 served to heighten this conflict as north and south fought over valuable resources. In more recent years human rights violations and genocide have occurred in unsurpassed numbers with the Sudanese governments support. Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state with an issued arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. In July 2011 southern Sudanese citizens voted to secede from Sudan and form the Republic of South Sudan in response to years of oppression by the Arab led Islamist government. South Sudan is now the worlds newest country and free to determine its own path

With my last name starting with a W I had the option of choosing between four different chapters. Chapter 5 the Court System, Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons, Chapter 7 Probation and Parole, and Chapter 8 the Juvenile Justices System. This being a hard choice to narrow these four topics down to one I have decided to discuss Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons.

The United States incarcerates more of its people than any other country in the world. Even though it makes up for 5% of the world’s population, it also makes up for 25% of all of the world’s prisoners, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies. The US has been ranked number one in a ranking of 221 countries who incarcerate the most out of every 100,000 of the national population. Out of every 100,000 Americans, 707 are incarcerated. That’s 10 times as many people as Norway, 15 times as Iceland, and 14 times as Japan. The United Sates prison system focuses on punishment rather than rehabilitation, which causes the recidivism rates to be extremely high. It has one of the highest rates in the world at a 76.6%, compared to Norway at the lowest rate of 20%. The system is so focused on punishing these individuals that it forgets they will one day go back into society.

In America, people are sent to prison with the goal for the convict to be punished, to prevent them from doing bad things again, and to deter others from breaking the law. Each year, millions of people are released from prison, but roughly two-thirds of the prisoners who were released reoffend within three years of leaving prison, often with a more serious and violent offense. This can be attributed to the ineffective correction style that America has adopted: punishment. American prisons have focused more on punishment than correcting the character, attitudes, and or behavior of the convicted offender and this has held an adverse effect on one’s incorporation into society after incarceration. The treatment of prisoners while they are

Well according to Freedom House , a website that accurately rates country’s human rights and freedom on a 1-7 scale, Sudan’s ratings are the worst possible. Their human rights is a 7/7, 1 is the best 7 is the worst, their civil liberties is 7, and their overall freedom is a 7. When your country is overall awful in human rights something needs to change. Freedom, political rights, and civil liberties are the difference between an underdeveloped and a developing country. Sudan, obviously, is underdeveloped. When Britain left Sudan, Sudan was lost. They had so many decisions to make and paths to choose. When a developed country has control of an underdeveloped country the developed country should at least try to help the underdeveloped country to become somewhat developed. Britain, the parent, left Sudan, their kid, on the side of the road and drove

Military regimes that favor Islamic-situated governments have controlled national politics since Sudan gained freedom from Anglo-Egyptian co-rule in 1956. Sudan was entangled in two post-independence civil war amid the greater part of the rest of the twentieth century. These wars were based on the northern Muslims, Arabs economic, political, and social control of the more largely populated non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first war ended with the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, which granted significant regional autonomy to southern Sudan on internal issues. (CIA 2015)

What are you taking about? If you don’t know better keep it for yourself, rebellion as you reference to your family my friends, your late uncles Alfred Amanya and Fabiano did joint Riak. If it’s your personal I respect that but don’t spread liar to others. I’m sorry if I offended you and your family, I believed every knows the situation of south Sudan, beneficiaries or not better we stand together as one people one nation with respect of each other where we can build the nation preaching hatred would not take us anywhere con or pro individual choice if you wish. Its not Oronyo alone its happened in Iloli too. Insurgency becoming order of the day in south Sudan, for example in lake state, what is the government response or solution and many similar problem. Tribalism my friends let us not jokes in south Sudan it’s a culture and I don’t know who instigate Ofiyuk may have the answer and the answer I guest its going to be Riak. Since SPLA/SPLA, begun was lay on that structure with no doubt and its there and will be there. Better we as a young generation to kill that idea. George and Edward could anyone wanted to get more about me inbox me or request

Given the fact that within many countries, there are various different cultures, political views, ethnicity, religious beliefs and so forth; it is no surprise when internal state conflicts emerge. Each country has a different way of resolving their internal state conflicts. Canada for instance uses a federal system in order to efficiently resolve local and national issues. Other countries such as, Sudan applied State separation in order to resolve their internal state conflicts, resulting into the creation of South and North Sudan as two separate countries. This essay argues that federalism is a much more efficient way of resolving internal state issues than State separation. In order to support this statement, this paper will: First define federalism and state separation to ensure a better comprehension of the essay. Secondly it will highlight the pros of both of these ideologies. Thirdly I will analyze the financial consequences of state separation. Then I will analyze the social benefits of federalism and lastly I will analyze the political benefits of federalism.

While still struggling to achieve peace with Sudan since its independence in 2011, South Sudan is now rife with inner-conflict. Rebel forces led by the former Vice-President Riek Machar want to overthrow the South Sudanese government, led by President Salva Kiir.

While prisons in Africa are often considered the worst in the world many other prisons systems are worse off in terms of violence, overcrowding and a host of other problems. This is not to argue that African prisons are human rights friendly. Many are in a deficient condition and their practices are at odds with human rights standards. However, prisons in many parts of the

The origin of the war between these two regions goes back to the 1950s when the country, which was previously two separate nations, was made one after World War II by the west. Shortly after this union, Sudan was emancipated from England. 1983 marks the beginning of the violent relations between the North and South Sudan. The initiation of this conflict was brought forth by the Islamic Sudanese of the North, invading with military force the Southern Sudanese Christians . From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in the violent duration of this genocide, most of whom are of the Christian faith and lead non-violent civilian lives. Attention on human trafficking was brought into the international community’s scope with close proximity to the beginning of the violence as two professors from the University of Khartoum shed light on the subject. Ushari Ahmad Mahumud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people, a tribal group in the southern Sudan, and upon this discovery they dicided to investigate it further. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the Southern Christian men and kidnapping the women and children to be sold into slavery. The most disturbing part of this discovery was the newfound knowledge that this had been going on for over two years. Professors Mahumud and Baldo

Hamed Alneel Mohamed Emam mentioned that he supported the unity of Sudan because; Sudan is one country, one nation and had a common interest. He believed that the culture of Sudan could not tolerate amputation and unity within diversity and democracy is better for the Sudan future. He added, if the people of the south keen for their plans, they can enjoy ruling the south (through federalism). But if corruption protected by tribalism is habitude of the south then, is better for the all to work for the unity of Sudan.

With due regard to the placement of prison across countries, it was found that majority of countries’ Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of Home Affairs or the Interior were responsible for prisons. In one country both ministries were responsible while in two countries a special Ministry for Prisons and Correctional Services had this responsibility. The relevance of this is the implications it has on the protection of prisoners’ rights. It is thought that these rights are better protected under the Ministry of Justice. It was also found that while some of the countries had updated some of the legislation dealing with prisons, 11 countries are still using legislation that dates back to the 1970s as far back as the 1950s. This means that these countries are operating without the benefit of modern penal practice requirements, and may not have included in their legislation guidelines such as the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and other legal instruments, both universal and regional. Other areas covered included number of staff proportional to number of prisoners and this was found to be 1:3 or less in six countries, and 1: 15 or more in two countries, with most countries averaging 1: 4-6 members of staff to prisoners. The imprisonment levels vary from country to country but the prison population rate tends to be higher in southern African countries and lowest in Central African and West Africa. The average population rate was found to be 119 prisoners