The Grooming Process

For new inmate, the bus ride to prison, the processing at the prison reception center, and the belittling shouts from the inmates are all part of the early stage of what is known as prisonization (Clear, Cole, Petrosino, Reisig, 2015). It is the process whereby newly institutionalized individual are introduced to and come to accept prison lifestyles and criminal values; the learning of convict values, attitudes, roles, and even language (prison argot) (Schamelleger, 2001). The new inmates gradually learn the set of rules of conduct that reflect the

After being incarcerated for a petty crime and sent to a chain-gang jail, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) has risen up the ranks of the establishment and become the prisoners’ idol as well as the guard’s enemy. Jacksons’s contrasting relationship with the guards and the prisoners is an important

Have you ever wondered how to take care of a horse? Horses are very important, because they are used for many things. If you treat them with respect they will also treat you with respect. There are many things you need to do to keep your horse healthy. The three main things you need to do are grooming, feeding, and putting on the gear they wear when it is necessary.

The movie the Shawshank Redemption, based on the book by Steven King, I believe is one of the best movies ever made. The portrayal of prison life in the movie is the best I have seen and a star-studded cast including Morgan Freeman supports the characters and brings to life the everyday struggles of life behind bars. In this paper I will relate topics from class to the movie and discuss information we have learned through out the semester.

Prison is an important place, because it takes away the power from individuals. This means that the criminal is no longer acting upon his will, but that of the officers, judge, guards, etc. “They are the foundation of society, and an element in its equilibrium.” (215) All the techniques, when created, they “attained a level at which formation of knowledge and the increase of power regularly reinforce the other.” (216)

As we later see in the movie, the retributive system did not work for the well of the boys as it did not reform their behavior in any way. In jail they are beaten, abused and raped by guards, these acts are much more heinous than what they had been sentenced for. The acts of being raped and abused turned them into worse criminals than they were. Ten years down the line, they become members of The West Side Boys gang. The boys have transformed into not only drug users but murderers as well.

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.

Most of us won’t really live for a minute behind the walls in order to be empathetic with the prisoners and that’s probably the reason we normally don’t feel a thing even if we read the inner life of the American prison (Gopnik, 2012). Adam Gopnik (2012) describes the life as “ not that of lock and key but that of the lock and clock.” Time frozen behind the walls and electronic securities with panic, paranoia and

Hassine begins his narrative as he is entering prison but this time as an inmate. Prior to his incarceration, Hassine was an attorney (Hassine, 2011). Even then as an attorney, the high walls of prison intimated Hassine (Hassine, 2011). As Hassine was being processed into the system, he expressed how he systematically became hopeless from the very prison structure itself as well as because of the intimidation he felt by uniforms. Prisons of the past actually had a goal to aid individuals through rehabilitation by instilling new values in order to correct the wrongs that one may have committed during their lifetime but today this is no longer true. . Hassine draws colorful depictions of how dim and unfamiliar a prison can be in which instills fear in an individual soon as he or she

In my experience of reading the text, Behind a Convicts Eyes, I have learned many things about prison life. It has in fact changed my perception of what I thought prison life was like. Prison is in fact a fight for survival, and the weaker inmates will be used and abused by the stronger population. To clarify what I mean, many of the weaker prisoners are sometimes expected to pay for protection from other inmates, or they join prison gangs to be safe. According to the text, it would appear that the inmates actually have more control over their existence than I would have thought that they do. When I use this term, I mean it in the sense that the inmates use the system to their advantage, or at

The information I collected from watching the video series would be that during the criminal justice process every little detail counts for something. If one misses anything that case at hand could disappear in a heartbeat. Starting with the arrest of a suspect, which to make that arrest a police officer has to have probable cause. Next after the arrest has been made the prosecutor takes over to try and get the suspect on trial as fast as he or she can. The department of corrections then goes in to make sure all the paperwork is filled out correct and complete, this process will make everyone else 's jobs much easier. After everything is finished the inmate is sent to prison and is met by the warren who tells he or she how their prison is ran. When the prisoner is up for parole the board of parole comes in the picture and has the job to decide whether to let the inmate out on parole or not. In the Criminal Justice video, “A file of that certain inmate is passed around, and the parole board will then make make a vote on whether the parole is approved or not there vote being 3 to 2” (Criminal Justice Process). In the Criminal Justice Process video one topic that i found was that the parole board do not trying to set the inmate up for failure they allaround just want what is best for the inmate. Another topic at hand is

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.

Both films showed what living the Georgian prison Angola was like and how it differed from other prisons when it comes to rehabilitation. Unlike most prisons in America Angola allows prisoners to have more of a rehabilitative experience. From the new prisoners farm hands who work the fields to the most trusted prisoners who have jobs outside of the prison walls while being under guard but more freedom of movement. It takes about four years for a prisoner to go from new comer to trust prisoner and any signs of not being a trusted prisoner you go back to being treated as a new comer. However, not all prisoners in Angola have the same experiences while in there.

Many of the prisoners in the film are perfect examples of how the American penal system has failed to rehabilitate the prisoners. The system has instead forced institutionalisation upon the prisoners through physical abuse, fear, direct orders or instruction and the abuse of authority that the prison guards possess. Along with these factors that aid the enforcement of institutionalisation, is the factor of time; it forms the means for the reason why the other factors are so successful. Throughout the time that Brooks has spent in prison he comes to depend on everything that the penal system has provided for him.

Although the theories were not clearly spelled out in the video, it could be clearly portrayed by the cluster of races as well as how they ran each cluster internally. The first social structure theory that could be identified is the social disorganization where the prisoners would come from their world outside the prison where they had freedom of choices as well as freedom to have whatever they wanted. They knew people in their lives and had the bonds with their families. Once they came into the prison, it was clear that they wouldn’t know anybody with exception of a few people and only interacted with each other due to their races. Although they knew the rules of the prison, they had a separate unwritten rule made up for their races which was basically to keep an eye out for each other or face consequences such as bashings, stabbings, or get killed. As Professor John Fuller (2011), states in his lecture, “society is not organized and so people don’t know what is right, they don’t know exactly what the rules are and so they are free to kind of make up things as they go along. They don’t have, they are not bonded to each other as neighbors, and so they look at each other, particularly in an emerging capitalist society, they look at each other as targets of opportunity for financial gain, rather than necessarily people to care about and to connect with.” As a result, prisoners are expected to continue breaking