Home confinement

Home Confinement: An Alternative to Incarceration      West Virginia state prisons have a maximum capacity of 2,154 inmates; currently they house 2,363 inmates, and more remain in City and County lockups to manage the overflow (West Virginia Blue Book). Home Confinement solves this problem. Reduction of the prison population should be reason enough to institute home confinement, but other reasons do exist. Would you like lower taxes? Home confinement costs much less than incarceration. Do you

Home Confinement is the Solution to Prison Overcrowding        Prison overcrowding is one of the largest problems facing the American criminal justice system today. Many people may think this issue does not affect them, but the problem becomes important when overcrowding forces prisoners to be granted early release. "In cases of extreme brutality, the sentence served by criminals can be short. Because prison space in the city is tight, each offender can be accommodated only briefly" ("Punishment")

monitoring and home confinement. These punishments have proven very useful in dealing with minor offenders, pretrial confinement and others in need of supervision. They seem to be effective and help to transfer some of the cost of prison back to the offender. At one time a criminal

The decision I made about the choice of confinement as the theme to analyze is the right decision because I want to delve into the different types of irony that comes with confinement, and the many ways in which people could be confined. “Throwing the kinks about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it.” (Beers et.al 291) is illustrated in the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This quote supports my claim because it shows an instance, although fictional, in which a person would

2015 The Destructive and Wrongful Use of Solitary Confinement Very few prison systems and prison facilities use the term “solitary confinement:, instead referring to prison “segregation” or placement in “restrictive housing” (Solitary Watch, FAQ). Solitary confinement is the total isolation of inmates who are feared for being a “danger” to “society,” — the prison system itself - for 23 hours a day from days to even decades. Solitary confinement was established in the 1800’s, where it initially

1 What does solitary confinement do the human brain? By Ronaldo Clerveaux English 4 Mr. Wilson Period 4 03/14/16 Solitary confinement is basically when someone is isolated from others and is usually contained in a cell for hours, days, months, and even years. They call the solitary confinement a “shoe” because it stands for Special Housing Unit (SHU), but it is pronounced like “shoe”. Its main focus is to keep people detained if they were to get in a fight, talking back towards

the documentary, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Kalief Browder was wrongfully put in Riker’s Island Jail for three years. He endured beatings, starvation and torture without ever being convicted of a crime. He spent most of his time in solitary confinement and it drove him to the brink of insanity. His whole life changed the night he got arrested for supposedly stealing a man’s backpack. Without having the funds for bail, Kalief stayed in one of the most violent prisons in the country and it affected

arrested a day before his 17th birthday. He missed both his 17th birthday and his senior year of high school. For the next three years of his life, he spent his time in the New York City jail complex. He spent at least two of those years in solitary confinement. He was never found guilty or even put on trial, and all charges against him were eventually dismissed. On October 6th, 2014 Jennifer Gonnerman wrote an article about him in The New Yorker. This article helped bring attention to the fact that the

While in solitary confinement Kalief didn’t only have to deal with the torture of being trapped in a small room alone, he also endured the guards torture as well. There were times where it would be extremely hot in the solitary confinement cells and Kalief would be mocked by the guards by asking them for ice. Other times, the only food he was allowed was a tray that had already been partially eaten by another inmate. For weeks at a time Kalief would be denied showers until he could smell the stench

ethics and etiquettes of people and their traits. Psychology is important because it concerns the sciences of the mind, and how many factors trigger different behaviors in certain situations. A common example in society today is the use of solitary confinement in prisons and how it affects the lives of the inmates and their families. This is seen in the story of Kalief Browder. Some of the behaviors of people in society may branch in positive outcomes or negative outcomes. A great example is the story