The Pros And Cons Of Private Prisons

Private prison guards can be significantly undertrained and “unlike in the state sector, where new recruits undergo lengthy probation, training and induction officers…are deployed 'on the front line' almost immediately after commencing employment” (Taylor & Cooper pg.20) Private companies are willing to put their employees at risk of an attack and their facilities at risk of escapes if it means that costs will be saved. In a private prison in Scotland it was discovered that “the failure to report or the downgrading of incidents including assaults and discoveries of drugs, weapons or other banned items, or the falsification of statistics in order to prevent the prison from incurring fines, were systemic.” (pg.23) The lack of government oversight creates a hazardous environment in these private prisons. Regulations and rules are neglected and as this happens the facilities become more and more

The guards are brutal, they use force to scare the prisoners to do as they are told and completely rely on threats and intimidation to keep their position. The power that they hold may be very strong at their peak but when power relies on abuse and dishonesty is can not last forever.

In addition to adaptive roles, the film also portrays many instances and forms of prison violence. Prisons provide all of the necessary conditions to host violence (288). The film depicts instances of prisoner-prisoner violence in the form of sexual victimization, prison gangs, and illicit violence by officers against

One prionser Michael Sabbie has died in the hands of five prison guards. He took pepper spray directly toward the face and underwent Fog. He underwent a 40-second exam and then threw him in the shower in the article I have read he hit face first, after that the guards threw him in an isolation cell. He told the prison guards multiple times that he could not breath. In the article it says this went on for 10 minutes of him drooling spitting and apologizing while trying to plea with officers that he could not breath and that something was wrong with him. However, the guards ignored It and threw him in the cell. Some prisoners try and fake sickness but he was not.

One of the key elements for a private correctional facility or prison is to provide security (Seiter, p. 93) Private prisons do provide this element, but how well do they. In 2010, three murders escaped from a minimum to medium security prison in Arizona called Kingman Prison. This prison was operated by MTC (Management and Training Corporation) (Levine). These three murders reaped havoc among many states after their escape until they were finally captured. Private prisons and the Kingman Prison are designed to provide the maximum security for inmates and the public too. However, this escape just shows how unequipped private prisons are, as well as, under staffed and not properly trained. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said, “ I believe a big part of our problem is that the very violent inmates , like the three that escaped, ended up getting reclassified [as a lower risk]quickly and sent to private prisons that were just not up to the job” (Levine). Not only are private prisons unequipped for the job, but the lower staff levels and lack of training for the staff suggest more incidences of violence and escapes. From a study, there is evidence that guards are assaulted 49 percent more than in a public prison and the assault of inmates against one another is 65 percent more than in a

Confined prisoners, many of whom are later released at the end of the sentence, are excruciated with a new behavioral deficiency as a result of their time in solitary confinement. This can dangerously affect social orders/groups and it can prompt higher rates of recidivism among these prisoners. As for a psychological aspect, any human contact is critical capacity for keeping the faculties in place and when that human contact is banned or denied, inmates can lose their capacity to work appropriately. Now and again prompt themselves to inflict self-harm as well as harm others in the population. Only one could imagine what this isolation could do to a

Prison is not meant to be a comfortable place. Prison, historically, is meant to be a punishment for crimes committed against society. Once an individual is convicted and sentenced, they are then taken into custody of the state or federal government. The term custody refers to an individual taken to a detention facility. This term also refers to the concept that the government is now responsible for the wellbeing of the inmate. The individual is being punished, but the government must take reasonable steps to protect those in their custody until they are released back into society. It is vitally important for the safety of these individuals that administrators become aware of the factors that may put certain inmates at a higher

There are approximately 1,600,000 million inmates are behind bars in America (Glazer, 2014, para. 11) . Without a doubt, much of state prisons are overcrowded, which can lead to, very dangerous situations and environments. Due to the overwhelming number of inmates incarcerated it is difficult to deal with medical and mental health problems in prison. If most inmates complain about not feeling well or have symptoms, medical condition or disease that is not immediately, they would get some form of medication and get turned life back without seeing a doctor for a proper medical exam. A clear majority of the health care professional that work in the prison systems are very under qualified to work in such dangerous and trauma environments like prisons

Staffs are verbally abusing inmates and many prisoners are feeling vulnerable and unsafe in this prison as they are not being treated fair. Although, there were few good improvements that were seen on the 2010 report, the discoveries that were made

The overcrowding prison reflects that the inmate population has grown much faster than the funding for prisons, which is controlled at the state level. In most cases, state funding has not come close to keeping up with the rise in the prison population, leading to decrepit prison infrastructure that is wholly inadequate for housing such large numbers of inmates. Without capacity to house inmates properly, some prisons have resorted to having prisoners sleep in gymnasiums, and many have overcrowded cells to accommodate the extra bodies. This overcrowding has led to deteriorating cleanliness of prisons and declining safety. Today, non-violent prisoners are forced to live in close quarters with violent ones, and the results are predictable.

SLAM! CLICK! That was the sound of a cell door closing and latching in front of your face, just after the guards beat you senseless because they did not like you based of the color of your skin. Mistreatment, while inmates are incarcerated, happens on a day to day basis, and guards, as well as staff, get away with it. People may disregard the story that was just told, but it is an actual case. There are a several cases regarding incarceration abuse, which people either ignore or think the prisoners deserve it. Detention centers, in all states, have issues with the jail staff and guards denying the right that detainees and inmates are entitled to, bringing around incarceration reforms or overview. One of the most common abuses among prisons is the denial of immediate medical care or long term aid.

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.

The reality of our prisons is nearly the opposite thought, with prisoners being tortured and beat daily. A documentary on the horrors of American prison's titled, Torture: America's Brutal Prisons, details how badly prisoners are treated in graphic detail. The documentary shows how prison beatings happen more often than we think and how some are even fatal. This is generally not because of bad inmates, but because these prisoners are no longer treated like human beings. When they are finally released, most of them will be in worse condition mentally and physically than when they were first sent to prison. As a result, they are more likely to commit other crimes and be sent right back to prison.

An example of what happens when prisons become overcrowded took place in Trenton, New Jersey in 1952. The small prison was made up of "sexual psychopaths, passive homosexuals, aggressive 'wolves' with long records of fights and stabbings, escape artists, agitators and incorrigibles of all ages" (Blackwell). While Trenton’s overcrowding was minimal compared to today’s standards, there was 1,312 inmates in a facility designed to hold 1,190. The cells were old and rundown, barely lit, and infested with rats that were fed better than the inmates (Blackwell). The prison began hiring tougher, more rugged correction officers to combat the rowdy inmates. The inhumane treatment of the inmates contributed to an unstable and volatile emotional state among the inmates. Around midnight on March 29, 1952, the inmates began to tear apart their cots, using the metal legs to pry open their cell doors. The inmates “chased their guards out of the wing, barricaded the entrance and wrecked everything they could lay their hands on. They smashed cell toilets, shredded beds, broke windows and set fires” (Blackwell). The guards broke the will of the inmates after 46 hours by using tear gas and water hoses. Two weeks later, a group

There are even worse scenarios that exist in today's prisons. The prison guards have little control and prison can be a violent place because again it is not a place that specializes in rehab. On television shows you see inmates stabbing each other and are quick to assume that it is a dramatization, but it really an occurrence that happens often, in prisons all over the world for that matter. In an article by Raphael Rowe he writes about how a part of him died in prison, and he had to be on his guard constantly, "Once, I was sitting in the television room watching football when someone I knew came in and told me to leave the room. I didn't ask questions: I just left and stood outside. A few seconds later, three other guys came running past me, pillow-cases with eye-holes cut out over their heads, carrying a huge cooking pot full of hot oil. I heard the screams long before some young black guy - a sex offender - came running out, his skin dripping from his face." Such horrid tales should let the general public know that we need to reevaluate