Prison

revenge, mercenary capitalism, and systematic racism, the American prison system is destructive to our society and should be subject to a mass reform. Of the almost 200 recognized independent countries, American prisons detain about 25% of the population of inmates, “though only 5 percent of the world’s population lives in the United States” (Sakala). This obvious disproportion feeds into the notion that the United States prison system is in no way representative of the overall national population

advantages that private prisons have over public prisons in today's society: 1. One advantage for private prisons is that is creates jobs for people in or around the community. This is an advantage because it’ll make the community happy and the prison happy. This is a good balance because the prison needs guards, cooks, receptionists, and nurses. This works out for people who need the money to help support themselves and their families. Research also shows that private prison help build up the community

comes to prisons, anything that can’t be bought in the commissary or that isn’t given to them when they get to prison is contraband. Contraband is a major issue behind the walls and can be anything from a “homemade” shank by the inmate, or drugs or weapons smuggled into the prison from various ways. Not only is different types of contraband in the prison a threat to the inmates lives, but also a threat to the officers on duty and other staff members. Some issues with contraband in a prison are: how

This week, our learning subject was focused on the “Corrections Policy”. Therefore, For this Discussion, I chose to discuss is the “Prisons and Terrorism”. According to the article: “Are prisons really schools for terrorism? Challenging the rhetoric on prison radicalization” It is commonplace to refer to prisons as ‘schools for crime’ (Gendreau et al., 1999: 4–5), but are they also schools for terrorism? When governments justify the need to segregate and/or isolate inmates who have been

For every person who is currently stuck behind the bars of a private prison, more money is pouring into the pockets of the owner. Sadly, this is not only affecting how many people are getting sentences, it is also affecting how long someone is staying in a prison. Just like the hotel similarly, you would much rather have a guest that is staying a week then a different guest staying every day. In a prison it is cheaper to have a prisoner stay for life thaen to have 10 different 5 year sentence. This

Kennedy stated that the prisons in California were beyond overcrowded which lead to lack of proper medical and mental health care, which violated the cruel and unusual clause of the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (Brown v. Plata, 2011, 1). It stated that California prisons were built to house approximately 80,000 inmates but by the times it went to the Supreme Court it had nearly doubled the original number (Newman and Scott, 2012, 548). It also stated that a prison which deprives prisoners

Radicalization process in prisons in not a new phenomenon. Prisons have served as a school for criminals throughout history. The education the inmates receive in these institutions can be either positive and allow them to progress once they are out, or very negative and lead to radicalize inmates with extreme ideologies. It is crucial to understand the definition of radicalization, which is a process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious

Privatized Prisons Our country's criminal justice system is not nearly perfect. Imagine being in a jail where you must worry about being assaulted twice as much, you’re more likely to come back to after finally leaving, and they use your punishment for their profit. In our country, private prisons make this a reality for many inmates. The United States is faced with a broken criminal justice system due to privatized prisons; these greedy, for-profit prisons, are of lower quality and are a reason

July 2015 Prison Break In today's modern society prisons are seen as a dirty, old, and scary place where those who have committed crimes go to spend time depending on what crime they committed. The idea behind prisons is that no one will ever leave because of all the actions taken in order to avoid a prison break, but in actuality prisons are more easy to break out from than people think, due to the psychological aspect or how guards treat the inmates, food, and how big or small the prison may be.

Allen all have in common? They have all been to prison. Whether it was for attempted murder and assault, or armed robbery and kidnapping, they all have been in prison for different reasons. Through the first forms of prisons in the US, to the rise in the number of prisoners, today’s prisons are so much different than what they used to be. According to easternstate.org, on July 27, 1776, in the state of Pennsylvania, the first United States prison was built. It was originally called Walnut Street