The Punishment Of A Prison

How beneficial or detrimental is the effects of parenting from the penal system for the children and families involved? How much of an influence is the effects of parenting from the penal system is affecting the child’s developmental skills? Is parenting from the penal system, exposing the children to the risk factors that may increase the chances of them being incarcerated? These are the typical questions and concerns that are being questioned when researchers are gathering their conclusion.

Law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. This confinement, whether before or after a criminal conviction, is called incarceration.

The growth of incarceration in the United States Prison grew over the last four decades. The trend is historically unprecedented and is unique to the world. The majority of those incarcerated come from disadvantaged populations and comprises of main minorities below the age of forty. The communities have the number of people engaging in crime, drug abuse, alcohol addiction, physical and mental illness and lack of employment. The African Americans and Hispanics form the largest prison population compared to the non-Hispanic whites. The high incarceration has the huge impact on the American society since its inception in the 1960s and 1970s. The changed political environment led to policy changes. All levels of the government altered

GED while incarcerated, but such opportunities depend on the availability of education programs and inmate eligibility for those programs” (Visher, Travis).

According to Alexander, so many black men are missing because they are under the criminal justice system. In today’s society, there has been a mass incarceration of black men due to the federal program called the war on drugs. Because of this mass incarceration, a lot of black men are far from home without being able to raise their children. “Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages” (Alexander 738). African Americans were victims of slavery in the past; however, in today’s society the number of black men in prison is even bigger than the black men enslaved in the past. “More black men are imprisoned today than at any other moment in our nation’s history” (Alexander 740). The war on drugs makes this possible because

In most situations, once a juvenile has been accused of a crime, the individual appears in court and the case is heard by a judge. The judge will determine the sentence the juvenile has to complete. According to the NCCP, most juveniles receive punishment, such as community service of probation (Kihl 10). When the youth face the possibility of incarceration in an adult prison, juveniles will less likely receive any rehabilitative or therapeutic services in the facility. The youth who are charged with most serious and violent crimes are more likely to tried as adults and more likely to be sent and sentenced to an adult prison, Juveniles that minor offenses, such as, theft or burglary, are more likely to be sent to a juvenile center. Because

The United States prison system incarcerates more people per capita than nearly all European countries, and roughly two-thirds of those inmates that are released will be arrested again within three years (Ward et al, 2015). Some facilities have relatively successful programs that cut down on the recidivism numbers. However, the majority of prisons are focused on punishment and make no efforts at rehabilitation. Something in the American justice systems needs to change so that the cycle can be broken. To accomplish this, we can look at the justice system of other countries and try to determine whether such systems would work in the United States.

If you listen close enough, to really the only object making any sort of noise in the entire building, you could hear the air conditioning vents pumping air to counteract the Riverside heat. The corridors were long and skinny, and only lit by the light from outside. The “pitter-patter” of your footsteps bounced off the walls and slowly fainted in pitch as you moved down the hall. The rooms on the side were just as dark, if not darker, with no one around at the mere afternoon hours. Walk far enough in this prison-like building and you would reach the front, where there is a three-ring-binder that says on the cover “Early Childhood Services.” This obviously was not a prison at all, it is the University of California, Riverside’s Child Development Center. I had the opportunity to walk around and explore both of the buildings that they have; unfortunately, it was during nap time. Therefore, I could not ask any of the children what they thought of the school, but I am sure my comparison of a prison was not too far-fetched. In contrast, many students clearly love it by the numerous decorations on the walls. From various pumpkin creations for Halloween to cut-outs of the wide-range fall leafs. The school hosts infants to kindergarteners to allow for students and professors at the University to ensure that their child receives the proper care and attention they deserve for proper development. The classrooms are designed so that the door is on the right and the student’s proud art is

There were many reactions and emotions that I felt as I read this excerpt. First of all, I did not even know how harsh prison life could actually be. The author describes it to be brutal, ruthless and unforgiving. From this description, I can understand that I wouldn’t want to go there no matter what someone said. According to Tookie, you barely even get any space in your prison cell. You are not allowed any physical contact with friends or relatives that are visiting you. You do not even get good food and you always have to watch your back. Prison life is not a lifestyle to joke about and my view of being sent to prison has been altered after reading this

Michel Foucault is a very famous French intellectual who practiced the knowledge of sociology. Foucault analyzed how knowledge related to social structures, in particular the concept of punishment within the penal system. His theory through, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, is a detailed outline of the disciplinary society; in which organizes populations, their relations to power formations, and the corresponding conceptions of the subjects themselves. Previously, this type of punishment focused on torture and dismemberment, in which was applied directly to bodies. Foucault mentions through his literary piece, “the soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy: the soul is the prison of the body (p.30). However, today, the notion of punishment involves public appearances in a court and much more humane sentences. However, it is important to note and to understand the idea of power and knowledge; it is fundamental to understand the social system as a whole.

According to the State of Rhode Island General Assembly (2016), in a statement you made on June 16, 2016, at the House Judiciary Committee meeting, this was confirmed. “The Department of Corrections has reported they do not track even basic information like how many people are in each disciplinary class of confinement, the lengths of their confinement, the offenses for which they received it, and how many people in confinement have a mental illness or disability.” RIDOC previously kept no data on solitary confinement of mentally ill

n this chapter, Brown discusses the ways in which prison tours produce “dark” distanced penal spectators, whose views of punishment are shaped by the convergence of popular sentiments—thrill-seeking influenced by the mass media—and commercial interests, and the relationship between actual punishment and the cultural representations of punishment that prison tours produce. While the original prison tours were to analyze the experiment of self-governance, current prison tours are designed to correlate with popular desires and expectations. Thus, this design enhances the role of the penal spectator and actually creates a gap between reality and the idea of punishment.

Orange Is The New Black is a new hit tv series presented by Netflix. The show is about a young woman named Piper Chapmann, who has been sentenced to jail for fifteen months for being an accessory to a drug cartel with her former girlfriend, Alex Vause, who is an international drug smuggler. Ten years later, after committing the crime, Chapmann lives a normal life with her soon to be husband, Larry Smith. The series conveys Chapmann’s life in the first season, and in the second season, the show reveals the characters’ background and why they were sent to prison. The show frequently features flashbacks to demonstrate some of the bad decisions that caused the diverse group of women to be sentenced to a New York prison,

Incarceration is thought of as a positive form of punishment, and negative form of punishment. The opinion varies with the type of person, and their experience from jail if they have gone. Most inmates while in prison will tell you it is a horrible place that should be gone. That would allow criminals to be free and that would let them cause harm to others or other illegal activities. Incarceration was not designed to be a paradise, it is a detention center for the bad, and meant for them to be punished. Without jails the world would be filled with even more evil, and would leave people in more danger than they already are.

After four weeks of learning about punishment and the penal system I feel like I have learnt a lot about the system as a whole. As I previously mentioned before enrolling in this unit I was naïve about the system, how it operated, the living conditions of the inmates and the social demographics that contributed to the prison population. With all of my recent knowledge from the lectures and readings, I was still surprised to find out how much it cost to maintain a person in prison. I was always aware that a proportion of the taxpayers’ money was spent on prisons but I was unaware of how substantial that amount was. In the 2013-2014 period, 2.6 billion dollars was spent on the prison system in Australia, this roughly equates to $292 dollars per day per prisoner and these numbers are expected to increase. I am currently working as a causal and make around $250 per week while the typical working Australian on average