...During the arrest of Rodney King, you can see a couple time that he has gotten up even though the officer tells him to lie down. Although it also shown that he was not resisting, failing to comply to an officer is considered a threat. The officer knows this his third felony so he will be going for life in prison; in Los Angeles, the officer needs to more than ever to be identified as authority. Although prisoner for life seems like enough punishment, he still be around people and officer to commit potential crimes, meaning that discipline is still needed. Also, even if he was under the influences, he still remember the beating that happen when taking it to court, which is proof that disciple work; whether the amount of hits taken was justified...
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...Evolution of Life in Prison November 11, 2013 Evolution of Life in Prison The purpose of this essay is to do an analysis on the evolution and perspective of prison life. This essay will explain how the evolution influenced the classification of male and female prisoners over time. Last, this essay will explain how the prison populations in jails compare to the population of prison at the state and federal levels. A person could describe prison life as living with thousands of other men and women, who also have criminal convictions by the judicial system. Prisoners will need to realize that his or her prison sentence is not a vacation; however, it is a punishment for his or her criminal mischief. Some people will not understand the true meaning of life in prison because they will not experience it themselves to pass judgment. As Stanley “Tookie” Williams did say in his Life in Prison book is no life in prison is hard for any individual who has to serve life in prison. Inmates will spend his or her time trying to figure out how he or she can win his or her freedom again (Becnel, 2008). The Evolution and Perspective of Prison Life A convicted felon prison life will change as the nature of the institution itself will change. The 1700s life in confinement is life in jail awaiting trial, sentencing, or punishment. Each prisoner will remain in the same jail together. Those prisoners will sleep in dirty and unhealthy jails. The prisons and jails have epidemics and malnutrition...
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...their mistake and they got out of jail and commit the same crime but worse. Is it really cruel and unusual to sentence life without parole to juveniles? Juveniles that commit extremely bad crimes should not be punished; who in their right mind thinks they should not be punished? Is life in prison with or without parole a better option for juveniles? It all comes down to what the juvenile did, and if the juvenile and the adult made the same mistake, they should get the same punishment. It should always be fair between adults and juveniles; there is no difference because they made the same mistake, a crime is a crime. To begin with, can juveniles really learn from their mistakes? Some juveniles can and others can't. Well how will the court make the right decision? For example a juvenile gains trust from the court and gets out of jail early but when they exactly get out of jail they go to a party and kill someone. It is the juveniles responsibility to not get in trouble because they have to be role models for the next generation of juveniles and be the adults. Juveniles can learn from their mistakes but there are always the juveniles that lose the opportunity of being out of jail by committing another crime when out jail. Why do the crime if you don't want to do the time? No one makes someone to harm anybody its themselves who do. Why do people think that equal and fair punishments are bad? It is not cruel and unusual to punish juveniles life in prison without parole. Let's...
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...Challenges of the Growing Population of Incarcerated Woman: Analytical Review of the Criminal Justice System Corrections/Prison Component Challenges of the Growing Population of Incarcerated Woman While analysis reveals that for the second time in several years the incarcerated populations fell, the populations of females incarcerated across the nations are still raising. As of midyear 2010 the Bureau of Justice Statistic accounted for 748,728 confined adults in city jails and counties across the United States of which 12.3 % were females. To recognize that there is more than a 100,000 woman incarcerated across the country is mind puzzling but, what is the explanation for this staggering numbers? The Federal Bureau of Statistics reported on incarcerated woman have revealed further evidence supporting that the growth of incarcerated female populations is not related to increases in more serious criminal behavior. Granting that men are more likely to be arrested for severe crimes, women are more likely to commit property crimes. A woman is more likely to be involved in stealing, forgery, and drug offenses than committing crimes such as murder or rape. The feminist criminology field is in development and deliberation to help understand the causes of woman involvement on criminal activity. A theory first presented by Rita Simmons in 1975 articulated that with the increase of gender equally, the crime committing rate from woman would take the same path (Schmallenger...
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...Jail System Paper Introduction According the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) “453 jail inmates committed suicide in 1985 and 401 in 1986” (Tartaro & Ruddell, 2006 , para1). What is it about prisons that would make an inmate take their life? The jail system traditionally is underfunded and understaffed. Today in prisons and jails the overcrowding is a big concern. For many the jail is a house of horror. The current problems with the jail system will be discussed in this paper. Solutions to the problems will be given as well. Describe the jails place in corrections and its role throughout history. The jails role in corrections is to hold inmates that are awaiting trial, there on bench warrants, unable to make bail, awaiting a transfer, or serving sentences of a year or less. Besides the obvious role of the jail, it also plays a role in corrections because it helps to rehabilitate the inmate. This is done by offering a variety of treatment programs that the inmate has the option to participate in. It is not required for the inmate to participate in a program, unless ordered by the court, but it is a good idea to do so. One may wonder what the historical significance of the jail is which is quite obvious, it has been around for quite some time and has proven a success throughout history, which is why there are so many jails around today. The jails historical role was to hold prisoners that were waiting for their trial or punishment. The...
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...Jail and Prison Within today’s corrections system, there are prisons of three security levels; minimum-, medium- and maximum-custody. Inmates may move between these custodies depending on their progress in self-control and responsibility, and movement is possibly in both direction, toward leniency and restrictiveness (Schmalleger, 2011, p. 471). The two facilities I chose are the Van Nuys Jail, the largest local jail in my neighborhood and San Quentin State Prison. Van Nuys is a pretty standard jail; it’s not used for any specific types of inmates, but mostly houses inmates that are awaiting their court date or transport to a county jail. San Quentin State Prison has multiple custodial levels within its wall comprised of a maximum security cell block, a medium security dorm setting and a minimum security firehouse. San Quentin State Prison is also the only facility in California to house a gas chamber and death row (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations, n.d.). The most notable difference between the jail and prison I have chosen lie in size, mission and scope. The Van Nuys Jail is the equivalent in security to a minimum-custody facility. Inmates are only held here until they are released on their own recognizance, post bail or are taken to court for their arraignment (Shouse California Law Group, n.d.). San Quentin, on the other hand, is a much larger facility that houses over 135,000 inmates for all lengths of sentences. The facility provides vocational and...
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...decisions" (Osborne, 1985). Personally, I do not believe that sentencing guidelines are strict enough in some cases and are too strict in other cases. "The deep sample analysis showed that disparities in sentencing appeared to be most common for cases in which an offender who killed intimate partners received shorter sentences than other offenders, despite the intimate partner homicide appearing more serious in nature" (Dawson & Sutton, 2017, pp. 58-70). I have worked for the sheriff's office for three years now and I have seen many inmates come and go....
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...Problem Analysis Patricia Gacho Program Development and Evaluation/CJA595 October 25, 2010 Sean Reeves Problem Analysis Hard sentencing laws, drug offences are causing the prison population to rise at alarmingly high rates. This is one of the reasons why the United States (US) prisons are the highest populated in the world (Vicini, 2006). According to statistics, the US shows that in 2006 seven million people were in prison or on probation or parole. Of this amount, over two million were physically in jail or prison (Vicini, 2006). According to Ethan Nadelmann the US has five percent of the world’s population, and also has 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population (Vicini, 2006). The United States also imprisons more people on drug charges than all of Western Europe combined (Vicini, 2006). Like every other county jail, DuPage County jail is overcrowded due to the backlog of the court dockets. Alleged offenders must wait for their day in court and then be sentenced and transported to various prisons. Many of these offenders are non violent offenders, or are first time drug offenders (Vicini, 2006). In Cook County jail many inmates are tried and sentenced, but depending on the crime the sentencing could be one year or less in the county jail, prison time, probation, periodic imprisonment, or conditional discharge. There is however, another choice for first time drug offenders and non-violent offenders and that is Boot Camp. Boot Camp Boot Camp is...
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...prisoners’ rights such as civil rights of prisoners, the prisons and jails must operate under the law to be able to successfully take care of the inmates by which they house within their facilities, they have to teach and educate each officer on all levels of the understanding of the constitution, and not only for the guiding and maintaining a safe environment and implementing the proper rules and regulations when it comes to inmates but the officers on duty within the jail and prisons are heal accountable for knowing and understanding they have the rights and must be also treated under the constitution as employees, the inmates within the confinement has over the years been able to study and gain a knowledge that may even be superior to 85% of the officers that works within a facility and often times know how to work and use their rights to gain control over an officer. According to the Course Text there is a consideration of constitutional law and prisoners’ rights such as civil rights of prisoners, the prisons and jails must operate under the law to be able to successfully take care of the inmates by which they house within their facilities, they have to teach and educate each officer on all levels of the understanding of the constitution, and not only for the guiding and maintaining a safe environment and implementing the proper rules and regulations when it comes to inmates but the officers on duty within the jail and prisons are heal accountable for knowing and understanding they...
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...Policy Analysis I What is she doing in a men’s jail? Transgender individuals in the right facility are a major concern of prisoners going through transgender change. As a refugee from Nicaragua, Luisa Espinosa was required to walk a gauntlet bare-chested while other inmates laughed, leered and made insults to her breasts. Espinoza stated many times inmates and officers made fun of her and making homophobic slurs. She had received this type of abuse in Nicaragua; she did not expect it here (Garvin, 2003). Espinoza was born male but had not yet completed the surgery to become a woman. She identified as a female her whole life. She has dressed as a female, wears her hair as a female and speaks femininely. She sits in jail awaiting the Immigration and Naturalization Service makes every effort to send her back to Nicaragua where she faces the same ridicule (Garvin, 2003). Formal complaints have been lodged with the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors by Espinoza and other transgender prisoners. They are stating the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department habitually violates the rights of transgenders. The grievances are the beginning to civil lawsuits and outline constant incidences of discrimination against Espinoza and other transgender inmates, prejudiced comments by jail employees and steady sexual harassment. This paints a picture of transgender people singled out for cruel and unusual chastisement in Sacramento’s main jail. Espinoza stated the San Francisco jail...
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...OVERCROWDED PRISION The dramatic increase in incarceration rates cannot be explained by our crime rates. Homicide rates in the United States are much higher than those of comparable countries, but homicide convictions account for an insignificant number of sentenced prisoners. In general, other crime rates in the United States are high, but they remain in ranges that overlap with comparable rates in other countries--for example, one can point to industrialized countries with higher auto theft rates than the United States. And while there is much contested terrain about changes in U.S. crime rates since 1970, it is generally conceded that the crime rates have not changed dramatically and that movements up and down in the incarceration rate have not correlated with crime rate changes. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HSP/is_1_3/ai_66678533/) Criminal activities among Americans are on a constant rise compared to other parts of the world, leading to overcrowding in prisons. The contributing factor to this notion could be strict punishments for minor crimes, some pertaining to racial profiling. According to Hernandez (March-April 2009), African Americans represent nearly half of the prison population. The “war on drugs” has made a significant impact on the prison population, particularly within the African American communities. The war on drugs is aimed at reducing the supply and demand for drugs within the United States. The program focuses on stricter punishments...
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...not a threat to others and have not committed a violent crime we are simply wasting space in prisons that could be better used to house violent offenders such as murderers and rapists. In addition to wasting space, every state that continues to jail non violent offenders is wasting money. They are wasting money not only for salaries of correctional facility employees but also on housing and feeding these inmates. The amount of money it takes to keep a person imprisoned for one year is unbelievable. The average cost to house an inmate in California over one year is $47,102. (Brown, 2009) In Wisconsin that number is $31,806, much closer to the national average. (National institute of corrections, 2008) Think of all the money that could be saved by referring non violent offenders to rehabilitation instead of putting them in jail. Even with all the spending done each year on inmates, they are just as likely to commit a crime when they get out. According to a bureau of justice statistics report “Within 3 years of their release from prison, about 7 in 10 nonviolent releasees were rearrested for a new crime, nearly half were reconvicted, and more than a quarter were returned to prison.” (Renaud, 2002) Case after case has proven that jail time is not a sufficient deterrent for many offenders, especially...
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...Film Analysis Paper James Smith MU14ELC05B Hum/150 STACY DAVIES The film Fruitvale Station is the story of twenty-two year old Oscar Grant III. The films plot is Oscar just wants to be a better person then he was the previous year. He lived in and out of jail. His mother hated to see him in jail because she felt like he was wasting his life and his daughter’s life. Her last visit to the jail him and his mother argued and had their disagreements. That same day a man in jail also picked a fight with Oscar. Oscar was released from jail but did not know that his encounter with that man will someday surface again and it would be his last encounter. Oscar makes an effort to be a better son to his mother, a better boyfriend to his girlfriend, and a better father to his daughter. The film follows Oscar around on December 31, 2008, which appears to be just a normal day in his life, New Years Eve and his mother’s birthday. He works in a grocery store and sells drugs for a living to make a way for his daughter. He is unfaithful to his girlfriend/the mother of his child. Oscar woke up that day and realized that his life was not exactly where he wanted it to be. He could barely afford rent for their apartment. He faced many obstacles that day. He got fired from his job. Knowing that having no job meant partial rent money he begged and begged for his job back but his boss would not let him come back. I feel like the way that the director portrayed Oscar and his encounters with family...
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...spending time in prison until the trial. The problem with this kind of system is that, in reality it disproportionately affects the poor while working best for those with money. According to John Oliver, “In 2013 an analysis of New Jersey jail population found that...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Formalism The formalist movement heralded by the Russian Formalist movement and supported by the American New Criticism signaled the beginning of a new era in literary criticism (Rivkin and Ryan 1). Prior to the movement, literature was studied in a manner that was concerned with everything but the language used. However, the formalist movement chose to deviate from the norm. Formalism is concerned with the language used in literature only; the form of the literary piece (Rivkin and Ryan 1). For the formalists, literature is not perceived as a window to the world, but rather as something with specifically literary characteristics. Formalists did not agree with the conventional perceptions that were used to mark a piece of literature as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (Purdue University). Formalism asserts that each work of literature has particular intrinsic features in the text and specifically looks at these literary qualities in the text. Prior to the formalist movement, literature has studied a means of gaining understanding about the world. Literature was studied in its historical context, philosophical and social implications of literature were considered in the study of literature. However, formalism abandons all these notions and looks at literature independent of the historical and social context but as an independent body of work. The main point of formalism is to put each work in its unique place, free from attachment or comparison to its...
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