The Effects Of Juvenile Prison System On My Family

Whenever you imagine prison, you think up ideas and violent images that you have seen in the movies or on TV.   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are stereotypical of everyday life in prison.   Perhaps it could be a combination of your upbringing, horrific ideas about the punishment which our nation inflicts on those who violate its’ more serious laws that keeps people frightened just enough to lead a law-abiding life. Despite it’s success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the American prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society, it is also extremely expensive and wastes our precious tax dollars.

Even though prisoners are incarcerated, they still are entitled to certain rights. There is a lot of debate about which rights prisoners should have because they can’t have too much freedom, and they also can’t have too little freedom. If inmates have much freedom, chaos would reign over the facility. No inmate would learn to truly change their ways and fit back into the community successfully. If too little freedom is given, inmates would be neglected and treated like animals. The perfect balance is needed to achieve a functional correctional facility.

The author of Descent into Madness discusses how systems of criminal justice that engage in high levels of disorganization become nothing short of a breeding ground for discontentment among prison inmates. The other main point is that prison staff psychologically are hungry for power. This manifests in the myriad of ways that they treat the inmates in an effort to feel powerful through by retribution through their

The subject of prison evokes fearful and violent images seen in movies or on television; outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water that are intended to repulse people and deter them from committing crimes and ending up in such a position. Unfortunately, the reality of the American prison system is just as troubling as the dated stereotypes surrounding it. Despite its success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the modern prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society. It has proven to be an inefficient and ineffective system by focusing on punishment over rehabilitation, leading to issues such as overcrowding, wasting taxpayers’ money and a high recidivism rate.

Chair holder and Executive Director of Just Detention International, David Kaisner and Lovisa Stannow, in their article, “The Rape of American Prisoners”, divulge into the harrowing statistic of inmates across America. Kaisner and Stannow’s purpose is to shed light on the frequency of inmate-on-inmate rape, staff sexual misconduct, and what ensues afterwards. They adopt an empathetic yet informative tone in order to convey to their readers that these treacherous deeds in fact occur on a daily basis, and many times, the violators do not receive the proper punishments.

No-frills prisons and jails that take away prisoner amenities and privileges are part of the correction landscape. New policies are designed to make jail and prison life as unpleasant as possible in the belief that such conditions deter even the most hardened criminals. No one knows what freedom feels like more than the inmates in a Supermax facility. Their freedom has been taken away due to their behavior. What most people take for granted as ordinary everyday responsibilities are the things those in Supermax prisons fantasies. After conviction, these offenders spend the rest of their lives boxed in by steel walls. Their communication with the outside world is shut off or limited. However, the criminal justice system does not throw anyone

In spite of the fact that the situation is intricate, and some conflicting discoveries have risen, for the most part the literature supports the idea that the more coercive the jail environment the more prominent the potential for savagery becomes. This is particularly so where jail administration and treatment of detainees are seen by detainees as unreasonable or illegitimate, as this reinforces detainee solidarity contrary to the authorities. A jail approach that keenly consolidates situational and social counteractive action techniques upheld by fitting administration strategies and exploration based staff enlistment and preparing practices, is likely the most encouraging model for lessening interpersonal savagery in correctional facilities.

Inmates as well their loved ones are currently making efforts in bringing light to the situation. In doing so they hope to draw attention from American society and government official’s conscious of the inhumaneness of Ag. Seg in regards to U.S. correctional facilities. This paper will not only discuss why inmates should not be placed in

The failure of the juvenile detention systems is clearly demonstrated by a lack of direction for the youth. An outstanding 55 percent of the youth put out on probation are rearrested in a 12 month period according to a recent study at youth.gov. This may very well stem from the lack of attention to the children while incarcerated. Punishment is often used as a way of “correcting” the youth. This often escalates into maltreatment of the kids

It hurts my heart that my brother is incarcerated for what he did. For the last four years, I’ve grown up and mature into an adult without my brother being there. The essential lessons and advice that a sibling would share with the other, I missed out on. The pep talk before my big karate tournaments, I missed out on. The list goes on and on. Through the

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.

When we do research on daily prison life, we come across two typical but less than ideal situations: either social imaginaries cloud our judgment or information provided by the prisons themselves hide certain weak or bad aspects that they do not want to make public. We can also find information on TV, but most of the time it either exaggerates or minimizes the facts. In order to obtain more reliable information, we have to have access to people who are working or have worked in this institution, and such will be the sources of this essay. We will be describing and giving examples of prison violence according to three types of violence: sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Between this time in the 1800’s and when Price and Coleman published their journal article in 2011, few reforms initiated by the government in Texas were put into action. The only attempts to make prison systems better in Texas were initiated by churches and other charitable organizations, investigations conducted by the media into Texas prisons, and prisoners who are suing Texas for mistreatment (Price & Coleman, 2011). When Price and Coleman’s (2011) journal was published, Texas was known for and continues to be known for their abusive and neglectful prison systems, and still continues to be. Davis describes abusive conditions found within one Texas prison in 1997, in her article “Prison Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Prison History from the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison” (1997). A video tape from inside Brazoria Detention Center in Texas, made its way to major media outlets. In the video, guards had police dog’s attack and bite the prisoners without motive. The guards would force prisoners to crawl on the ground and would hit them with cattle prods if they did not declare their love for Texas. The guards in the video were seen beating the prisoners, even kicking them in their private areas (Davis, 1997). This is the systematic abuse and mistreatment of a marginalized population that unless the media somehow picks up on it, lacks a voice. The

Safety for those with mental illness or physiological damage is at a low. Those who suffer metal illness or seem to show symptoms of physiological preference outside of the usual abnormalities are put through hell and back if they are sentenced to a psychiatric ward. Those who are put into mental hospitals are not that much well off, both circumstances come with a list of mistreatments towards patients and inmates.

Once you enter a prison, you are in a completely different world. The sound of the door as it closes drives the realization home: your freedom is gone. Whatever luxuries you had before are gone. Everything you once took for granted you now long for, and contemplate with reverence. This being the case, there are now two new sets of rules you have to follow: the rules of the staff, and the rules of the inmates. Of course, these will conflict, but you have to deal with it now. Prison subculture is different from the outside world and even varies between men’s and women’s. The men’s subculture is probably the better known of the two. It has its own set of ebonics, attitudes, statuses, and values. Inmates say that