The Prison Camp Set-Up: A Flawed System

The feeding of the prisoners was a major issue in the concentration camps during the holocaust. The jewish prisoners were fed three times a day in the concentration camps, those three times were morning, noon, and evening. (living conditions, labor and executions) It wasn’t the amount of food given a day that was an issue the nutritional value that the Nazis had for the concentration camps. (living conditions, labor and executions) When the Nazis would feed the prisoners they gave the less physically demanding workers one thousand three hundred calories per day and gave the ones who engaged in hard labor one thousand seven hundred calories per day. (living conditions, labor and executions) This was an issue because after several weeks on such starvation in the camps, most prisoners began to experience what is called organic deterioration that led to the well known “Muzulman” state. (living conditions, labor and executions) This was when the prisoners ended being so tiny, extreme physical exhaustion, and soon ended up in death. (living conditions, labor and executions) In march 31, 1942 the WVHA established a minimum working day of 11 hour in all concentration camps. Labor in some concentration camps was the way of destroying prisoners, they worked them until they died. (living conditions, labor and executions) The prisoners usually labored in various sectors of

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   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are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.

Throughout history into today, there have been many problems with our prison system. Prisons are overcrowded, underfunded, rape rates are off the charts, and we as Americans have no idea how to fix it. We need to have shorter sentences and try to rehabilitate prisoners back to where they can function in society. Many prisoners barely have a high school education and do not receive further education in jail. Guards need to pay more attention to the well being of the inmates and start to notice signs of abuse and address them. These are just a few of the many problems in our prison systems that need to be addressed.

First and foremost, The first thing that is going to be addressed within prevalence in the film is obedience to authority. Obedience to Authority can be defined by looked at two terms discussed by Dr.Glavin in lecture. First is Compliance “when the target’s behavior conforms to the source’s requests” (Glavin,2016) and Authority “the capacity of one member to issue orders to others by invoking rights that are vested in their role”.(Glavin,2016). In The movie, there is set rules for all of the prisoners to follow to be considered keeping up to the prisons standards of what is considered to be ideal. The prison establishes these rules to enforce their authority over the prisoners and show that they have the upper head inevitability leading to obedience by the prisoners. At the beginning of the movie when Luke

Conditions inside the prison were no better. For starters, many of the prisoners were those who had committed menial crimes. Worse so, many were war heroes, back from Vietnam who couldn’t find a job and thus had to go about other illegal means to stay alive, and thus were thrown in prison. Attica prison in particular was famous at the time among prisoners for having the most horrific treatment of their inmates. Guards did whatever they could both legally and illegally to keep their prisoners in perpetual fear and discomfort. The prisoners were not just treated like children, but as animals. The one thing prisoners treasure the most is their contact with the outside world. It keeps them sane and allows them to remain in some type of contact both with their families as well as with what is going on outside the prison walls. But, guards did whatever

After being uprooted from their homes and communities, the prisoners found themselves having to endure primitive, sub-standard conditions, lack of privacy, and having to wait in one line after another for meals, at latrines, and at the laundry room. Each camp was intended to be self-sufficient, and Manzanar was no exception. Cooperatives operated various services, such as the camp newspaper, beauty and barber shops, shoe repair, and more. In addition, prisoners raised chickens, hogs, and vegetables, and cultivated the existing orchards for fruit. Prisoners even made their own soy sauce and tofu.

How young Elie Wiesel changed from the beginning of the book until the end In the beginning Eliezer had so much faith in God, and after they were liberated, he questions if God really exists. After accepting the fact that his father has died, there is nothing that could possibly happen to make Eliezer feel worst. Even though he was liberated, he was with his father the whole time.

“Beginning in the 1970s, the prison population began swelling, climbing steadily through 2009. Now, this nation imprisons more of its residents, 2.2 million, than any other.The United States jails a quarter of the world 's prisoners, although it contains only 5 percent of the world 's population. The statistics are sobering for a republic that celebrates justice, fairness and equality as the granite pillars of its democracy. (Walsh, 2016).” The underlying foundations of America 's mass-imprisonment arrangements are tangled ever, legislative issues, social clash and imbalance. It 's a pretzel-rationale maze, and to fathom it or even disentangle it, investigators say, will require clearing, head-on changes. However, those early endeavors in the long run exploded backward, Hinton said, throwing “ "low-income youth — whose families are on welfare, who live in public housing projects, who attend urban public schools, and who have family members with arrest records — as potentially delinquent." ( Walsh, 2016). With regards to the criminal equity framework, examiners say that lessening imbalance essentially would require an update of the country 's sentencing framework, better preoccupation and avoidance programs, jail changes, more successful policing arrangements and preparing, and complete support for previous detainees attempting to shape stable lives. The prison system is unfair because of the mass incarceration of blacks, the war on drugs, the population and the prison

Wiesel talks about how as the days go on they continue to work very hard, yet the amount and quality of the food that they are given decreases. He says “We went to work as usual, loading heavy stones into railway wagons. Rations had become even more meager” (Wiesel). The prisoners are doing very strenuous work that surely takes a lot of energy, but the people are not being fed enough to sustain this lifestyle. Later in the passage, Wiesel mentions some other conditions that the prisoners endured during their time at the camp. “We had risen before dawn, as on every day,” he stated, “We had received the black coffee, the ration of bread. We were about to set out for the yard as usual” (Wiesel). This is not a healthy way of living, especially with all the hard work that these people were doing. These horrible conditions that the people lived in while at the camp is an example of dehumanization in its purist. By forcing the people to do strenuous, physical labor against their will shows that the guards do not care about the well being of the people. By not properly nourishing them it shows that they did not care if the people suffered and died, which takes away the prisoner’s sense of personal identity and morality. Many guards did not even think of the prisoners as people. To them, they were just animals that were there to work for them, similar to

The purpose of prison camps is to hold prisoners that were captured during the war. Over 400,000 men were captured and sent to the camps. The prison’s conditions were much more worse than the camps that the soldier’s stayed in. The North and the South both took part in holding these camps. If the men were captured, the only way for them to not be put in the camps was to promise to return to home or exchange for the other prisoners on the other side. However, these rules changed. Union leaders wanted to end prisoner exchange. In 1863, african americans began joining the war in. Confederate states wanted captured african american soldiers to be enslaved or executed. The prisoner exchange then terminated. This then resulted in the prison camps to be more crowded. In the camps, the conditions were poor. The food that was served lacked nutrition. Men often caught lice. The soldiers lacked medicine, ice, and doctors. Overcrowding became worse as time has gone by. In Andersonville, Georgia, a stockade was developed in an open field to keep prisoners. This was to handle the population in the other prison camps. The 20ft wall camp held 30,000 prisoners. Water was provided in the camps. However, the conditions in the camps were still horrific. Nearly 100 died each day. The death rates in the camps were really high. The death rates in the Union camps were twelve

The Unites States of America’s prison system is a flawed mess. To open the eyes of our government we must first take a stand against unlawful government decisions, and show support for the greater good of society. What are our own tax-dollars paying for, what are the flaws in the justice/prison system, why is overcrowding in prisons causing tension, and what are ways our society and government can rebuild the system that has been destroyed over the years? Most criminals in prisons are not a danger to our society because they commit crimes just to use jail as a shelter, causing the overcrowding of prisons and wasting away of what we really should be paying for.

     The prisoners are further degraded because they simply do not have enough to eat. They become very haggardly and often have difficulty in judging each other?s age. Acquisition of a sufficient amount of food becomes a daily struggle, and for those who do not rise to the occasion ultimately parish. After a certain time period, it is impossible to survive unless you become an ?Organisator, Kombinator, or a Prominent? (Levi, 89). Levi writes, ?We have learnt the value of food; now we also diligently scrape the bottom of the bowl after the ration and we hold it under our chins when we eat bread so as not to lose the crumbs? (Levi, 33). A prisoner could only survive on a normal ration for around 3 months at best. Starving to death was not the main reason to acquire an adequate amount of food. The selections had to be avoided. If a prisoner was too weak to work, he was destined for the gas chambers.

At lunch time they would all line up with their bowls and wait to get watery soup. Those who were at the back of the line get nothing but water. When they were finished with their lunch they had to go back to work. They would work for the rest of the day until dinner time. At dinner, the prisoners were lucky to even get a small piece of burned bread and after dinner the Jews would go to bed.

Their behaviour towards the individuals was inhumane as they were making them think constantly about their faults and to do hard and exhausting activities. Such as tread wheel or picking oakum. In these activities they were isolating strands of ropes. Anyone who had cash, could purchase better food, more guests or even keep pets, however any individual who had no cash he had none of them.

Competition and conflict between prisoners definitely worsen the life in camp. Shukhov once stated “Who’s the zek’s main enemy? Another zek. If only they weren’t at odds with one another --ah, what a difference that’d make!”. The men did not really form a close relationship with one another because it was difficult to trust in each other. Each new hostage that came into camp took up space, food, and clothing. Fights broke out mainly during meal courses, with an insult from the cook, or a tray to receive food, or even for a set to sit and eat. There was not a lot of harmony in camp. If the men wanted to survive in camp they had to turn upon each other. Because with that one additional ration of food they received could determine whether they