The Increased Prison Population and Improper Punishment System

‘deterrence’, which is the idea of making criminal frightened to offend, though he may yet wish to, and the idea of ‘incapacitation’, which isolates the criminal and eradicating his physical power to offend, though he may still desires to. Prison punishments are not always the answer. A prisoner’s life can be simply depicted and directly related to the…

changes in how prisons content with parole and good behavior releases. Many states like Texas have gone as far as even increasing the grant rates for parole while shortening the terms of many of those that are given probation. These types of moves are one contributing factor in Texas being one state that has been able to reduce its overall prison populations for the past three years. Here is a map of states and the percentage increase/decrease of their perspective prison populations. Percentage…

shifts the burden of funding the penitentiary system from the federal budget to the local budget level. In other words, the policy makers just shift the problem from the federal to the local level but they fail to resolve the problem. This is why AB 109 was followed by AB 117 that actually discharged provisions of AB 109. The current policies focus at the consistent social change since the traditional punitive orientation of the criminal justice system turns out to be ineffective. As the crime rates…

1998-June 2001 * Total prisoner population, despite growing slightly between 25%- 27% remained stable (700) Increase did not occur as rapidly as it would have had the HDC not been introduced.( Home Detention Curfew) * The increasing custody rates continued grew from 25%-27% due to extension of executive recall of medium-term prisoners. June 2001-June 2003 * Prisons saw an increase of 7,300 caused by increase in remand, recall and sentenced population * Increase driven by those serving…

to stay out late, hang out with friends, and when their misdemeanors were fixed with the simple saying of “boys will be boys”. With males having more freedom to commit delinquent acts, there was doubt that the men were the majority of the population of prisons. As time passed and women began to embrace their liberations, more and more of them began working outside the home. This sudden rise of women in the workplace led to the shift in families. The number of egalitarian families in this nation…

also ties back into the Three Strikes Law (Nicosia, MacDonald, & Arkes. 2013) which states that the offender will be incarcerated on their third offense, no matter how minor the charge. The lack of rehabilitative resources in the criminal justice system leads to repeat offenders also. Although it should not be the responsibility of those in society who are doing the right thing to pay for services for those who are incarcerated, we are doing ourselves an injustice if we don’t. If we are not providing…

increase of approximately $27.5 billion over the next five years that will be spent on prison and the prison system. (Riordan 2007). Overcrowding in the state prison system is a continuing problem and is increasingly uncomfortable. Capacity levels have risen in both operating and capacity in both state and federal prison systems. This has caused local and state facilities to make inmates double up in prison cells. In other words, cells that would normally hold to inmates at a time are now…

The first system began in Auburn State Prison in New York in 1817. Prisoners worked together in total silence during the day, but were housed separately at night. Strict discipline was enforced, and violators were subject to severe reprisals. The second model, the Pennsylvania system, begun in 1829 in the Eastern State Penitentiary at Cherry Hill, was based on solitary confinement for convicts by day and night. There was a lot of debate about the two systems. People who…

the higher number in prison the less resources will be available for prisoners. The less resources available to prisoners will mean less time spent on individual cases limiting the chances of success in reformation. High Prison population and Overcrowding also lead on to the fact that there will be problems within the prison concerning staff. One of the problems in terms of staff will be the numbers available. With the increasing numbers, and the reductions in the prison budget, means the staff…

In order to find a solution for the problem the prison system took and is still taking steps such as classifying the gang members and other violent inmates as security threat groups (STG’s). Both prison officials and law enforcement agencies refer to gangs as STG’s rather than “gangs” in order to take away from the assumptions and exposure that the word “gang” gets. There are several ways of becoming classified as a security threat group, such as self-admission, known gang tattoos, confiscation…