Pelican Bay State Prison

What if I said that the prison population in America has grown by 700% between 1970 and 2005? Whether that is shocking or not, that statistic is significantly large to ignore. The United states has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and about 20% of inmates have spent time in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is the act of isolating a prisoner, from the rest of the prison population, in a cell for 22-24 hours a day. Some facilities deny them the right to make phone calls or get

about criminals. If they act like a criminal, and by that I mean commiting crime, then they are criminals. I refer to my friend “Joe” a lot in this paper because he did not and still does not carry himself like a criminal. Even though he is prison now for commitng crimes, you would never know just by looking at him that he is a felon. Labeling someone is a

“Break the rules you go to prison, break the prison rules you go to Alcatraz” -anonymous. Alcatraz is a prison thought to be impossible to escape, but Frank Morris thought otherwise. Before Alcatraz was built, and before Frank Morris made history, Alcatraz was just a big island. Alcatraz means “pelican” or a “strange bird.” It was originally suppose to be the “most heavily fortified military site on the west coast” (BOP: Alcatraz). With the gold rush booming, and San Francisco growing in population

The Endless Battle with Prison Gangs As the years pass, the rate of gang affiliated crimes in the Unites States has progressed extensively, accumulating more inmates into our major prisons doubling the maximum occupancy that the jails can hold. In the U.S there are currently 33,000 active violent street, motorcycle, and prison gangs with a recorded 1.4 million members combined. The registered number of police officers is a mere 683,396; which is not even half of our countries gang population.

12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he died eighty-three years later on November 19, 2017, in Bakersfield, California. Charles Manson's life has been filled with wrong and violence from the start and was spent mostly in juvenile detention, jails, prisons, or his cult. He also spent time in three boy’s schools. (Charles Manson Biography.) Charles Manson had two disorders. He was schizophrenic and he had a paranoid delusional disorder. His mother was a prostitute, and only sixteen years old when she

What happens when someone who is serving time for committing a mistake, commits another mistake? They end up in a prison within a prison; sometimes referred to as the “Box” or the “SHU” (Security Housing Unit), inmates find themselves in total isolation. Trapped within a 7-foot by 10-foot, concrete walled cell, prisoners count the scratches on the walls for hours at a time in an attempt to keep their sanity. They are stuck within the four walls for 23 consecutive hours at a time with only a bed

Incarceration: Cruel & Unregulated Punishment Inmates held in the United State’s prison system face critical exposure to numerous violations of their basic human rights. Abuses of power present themselves in a myriad of ways, including; the unregulated approach in which prison facilities enforce solitary confinement, the misuse of “compassionate release” policies and the judicial system’s wrongful imprisonment of individuals suffering from mental illness and, or mental disability. In most cases

Issue: Managing a maximum-security prison unit Review of Subject Correctional officers play a vital role in the prison system as they are responsible for the care, custody, and control of thousands of inmates. Correctional officers are expected to monitor, document jail inmate activities, control, and direct inmates while out of prison cell areas (e.g. transfers, work assignments, meals, and recreation). Correctional officers also perform searches of individuals and prison cells to located weapons or contraband

In article 5 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it states that, “[n]o one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” It states this, yet there are humans kept in cells smaller than the average size of a queen bed (Chan). How is this not considered an inhuman or degrading punishment? While the wellbeing of prisoners can be easily overlooked, that does not mean it is not an important issue. It is unhealthy for prisoners to be

illness and experience sleeping problems, hallucinations like strange sounds and uncontrolled fear. Furthurmore, the situation of the prisoners is worst because the human body needs to interact with other peoples to maintain their mental and cognitive state. Without any interaction, they suffer from anxiety and depression that leads to various health and behavioral problems. In the solitary confinement, prisoners are being abused by the guards and other cell mates. There are plenty of cases in