...The narrator lives in his own imagination, and lives through his own god awful mind. When conceives of a vicious and evil plan he needs a way to get out without going to prison. He might be pretending to be someone he’s not, he may just be stupid, or he may just be insane. Whatever the reason for his awful choice to commit the crime that he does, now he just has to figure out exactly the way he plans on getting out without going to prison. The narrator faces mental disorders or so it seems. The narrator has this idea in his head that the old man’s eye is of pure evil. The eye made the narrators blood run cold. The fact that he is so vexed by the old man’s eye he believes that that gives him a reason or a motive to kill the old man. In describing the narrators mental health he could have either been very mentally unstable or just a complete genius. Is it possible that he could have been pretending, he could be trying to convince everyone that he is sane by trying to act sane which just made him look insane like reverse phycology. Or he could have just gone insane slightly when confessing to the murder because he was filled with so much guilt. The thing that made him seem insane was how he supposedly heard the old man’s heart beat after he was already dead “tear up the floor planks!—here, here!—it’s the beating of his hideous...
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...MALE AND FEMALE PRISON DIFFERENCES 1 MALE AND FEMALE PRISON DIFFERENCES Carlette Hawthorne New England College Professor Kathy McDonnell-Corrections MALE AND FEMALE PRISON DIFFERENCES 2 Abstract This paper will point out some of the differences between the men and women prisons. This paper will also give examples of how gender plays a huge role in the prison systems, regarding programs that are offered to both women and men in the prison system. MALE AND FEMALE PRISON DIFFERENCES 3 A prison is a supervised facility for adults that have committed a crime. These facilities house both women and men. The housing structure for men and women are different. The women prisons do not have the heavy armed guards, watch towers or the high barbed wire fence (Schmalleger & Smylka, 2013,p 351), that we all are so use to seeing, when we ride past the men prisons. With the rise in women being jailed, for the crimes that they commit, it is only a matter of time, before the structure will change. “Between” 1980-1999 the incarceration rate for women out -weighed the men. During that time the incarceration rate for men was 303 percent, and for the women it was 576 percent (Austin, Bruce, et al. 2001). Although the incarceration rate has increased for women, the men still out-weigh the women, when it comes to men and women being in prison (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2013). The prisons, like other correctional facilities are designed to reform and rehabilitate their...
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...The history of prisons in 1800 Harold Flower CHS/230 December 8, 2011 Vashell Anderson The history of prisons in 1800 Prisons before the 1800’s did not have women prisons. In those days the prison were mixed with men, children and women all in the same prison. The prisons in the 1800’s that held women prisoners were treated just like the men in those prison the women also had to do hard labor which consisted of sewing, laundry, cleaning and cooking. All the women were to act like lady’s but also had to be treated like men in those prisons the women talked about how they were over worked and that they wasn’t fed enough in the prisons of the 1800’s. After the 1800’s the prisons started to change this was depending where and what prison you was in at that time there was no toilets in most cases the toilet was a bucket and it might not have been emptied too often. There were prisoners that didn’t do much at all but sat around and waited to die also at that time the cafeterias were not established so the food was forced through the cell bars and you had to eat what they fed you and it wasn’t much and it tasted really bad. You was lucky to be fed every day in today’s prison you do get three meals a day, schooling, and do jobs that are inside the prison also there are some prisoners allowed to work outside the prison walls, there is clean running water with bathrooms and showers, and the best part is that the prisoners have bunks instead of laying on the ground. In the 1800’s...
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...institution or at Valley State Prison, the nation's second-largest women's prison, which recently opened across the street. The compounds occupy the tiny farm town of Chowchilla, where almond and alfalfa groves surround the 50,000-volt electrified fence. To the crop dusters above, the flat gray-and-peach buildings must look like a giant corrections butterfly, shielding up to 8,000 women in the 1,340-acre spread of its cinder-block wings. The predominant types of offenses women tend to commit -- petty theft, check forgery, drug possession -- are nonviolent and low-level, yet women's rates of incarceration have steadily gone up, surpassing men's for the past 14 years. The increases are largely due to changes in sentencing and drug laws, and all the trouble that rides the particular poverty track most of these women are on. Many receive state-prison terms for crimes that previously earned probation. Between 1986 and 1991, the number of women in state prisons for drug offenses increased 433 percent (compared with 283 percent for men). Nationally, at the beginning of this year, there were 69,028 women in state prisons -- more than 9,600 in California alone. What this means is that the days of minivans with matrons escorting serious offenders to reformatory-style prisons are receding as more tractor-trailers pull into view. In the world of corrections, an inmate is an inmate is an inmate. In the nation's imagination, too, all inmates are the same. Yet prison administrators, corrections...
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...Are women more law-abiding then men? Why or why not? By Tayla Batten In most societies of the past and present, women are perceived as being inferior and passive. Women are biologically seen to be emotional, docile, nurturing and quite dependent on the male partner, while men are seen to be aggressive, arrogant, dominant and independent. (Lombroso, 1998) Cesare Lombroso, one of the earliest theorists of female criminality based his theory purely on a strict biological point of view. Lombroso stated “females are less inclined to commit crimes because women are more conservative, they are less exposed to society since their duties are mainly in the household, which gives them less of an opportunity to commit crimes, and because their brains are less developed than males, which causes them to act more primitive.” (Lombroso, 1998) When a female commits a violent and brutal crime, it come’s as a shock to society because women are not expected to be criminals, and therefore they are labeled ‘mad not bad’ according to Lee Bryant, author of ‘Feminism and Crime’. Lee Bryant argues, “The perception that women may be ‘mad’ because they ‘dared to go against their natural biological givens such as ‘passivity’ and a ‘weakness of compliance’ ‘appears to originate from the view that women who conform as pure, obedient daughters, wives and mothers benefit society and men”. (Bryant, 2000) Lombroso’s theory looks at that characteristics of the offender and determines that the female offender...
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...Development of Corrections Men, women, and juveniles were all held in the same prisons in the United States prior to 1800. They were all treated the same and they were cramped and were expected to do work like laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The Indiana State Reformatory built a separate prison for women in 1873 and then Massachusetts and New York followed shortly after. The women prisons were built in a different design giving them a more spacious environment and better commodities. The treatment of the women was different from the men and referred to as “ladies”. Most of the women’s prisons incorporated labor into their daily activities which were considered to be normal, such as laundry, sewing, cleaning, and cooking. In today’s prisons women are just like all the regular prisons and some of them hold women and men in the same building but separate. The juveniles were kept in the prison with the men and women before 1800, also. The argument in regards to the children was that the normal practices were too harsh for them. They expected the children to perform the same task as the adults and this sometimes was impossible for them to do. Officials thought the treatment of the children was too cruel and unacceptable because at that stage in their lives they were still developing and they could be reformed more easily. They also argued that the children were not as mentally strong to take the harsh treatment they were receiving in the prisons with adults. They also...
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...infection fifteen times higher than white women and four times higher than Latinas. Considering the aforementioned, it is not difficult to conclude that most of the new cases pinpoint a major disparity between black women and women of other races. Cultural environmental and other factors that exacerbate the problem are high numbers of black men going to prison, the effects of the black church and the lack of government resources. In my research paper, I will identify the causes of HIV/AIDS and suggest solutions to prevent the spread of this disease among black woman. According to Mayo Clinic the definition of Human immunodeficiency virus is a virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in which the immune system in the body begins to fail causing life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to increase. Scientist has spent numerous of hours and millions of dollars to find a cure for this infection but nothing has begun to work. Development of the AIDS Epidemic Kaposi’s Sarcoma is a rare form of cancer often associated with AIDS tends to run in older people but in March of 1981 it was found to occur between young gay men...
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...Introduction There are over 90,000 women in prison in the U.S. today. (WEAP) Between 1980 and 1993, the growth rate for the female prison population increased approximately 313%, compared to 182% for men in the same period. At the end of 1993 women accounted for 5.8% of the total prison population and 9.3% of the jail population nationwide. (NWLC) Although the proportion of prisoners who are women is relatively small, women make up the fastest growing subset of the entire prison population. For this reason, and because male supremacy and sexist justice are so intimately related to this problem, a separate consideration of women in prison is needed. Male privilege and domination, and the protection of that privilege have long been and continue to be central to the criminal prosecution system. In this essay I will consider three main subjects in this regard: Social and economical causes of female violence, what’s the reaction of society and justice system to it, how prison works in this society and what’s its effect on female prisoners? Social and Economical Causes of Female Violence First I will consider social and economical causes of female violence. Who are the women in prison? The profile that emerges in study after study is that of young, single mother with few job skills, a high school dropout whom lives below the poverty level are the most typical women in prison. Seventy-five percent are between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-four, are mothers of dependent children...
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...Development of Corrections Amanda Williams CJS-230 October 26, 2011 Anthony Byrd Development of Corrections Before the 1800s prisons for women were almost non-existent; prisons were all in one for men, women, and children. The few women that were in prison before the 1800s were treated just as the men were treated, sometimes worse. Besides being made to do hard labor, like sewing, cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry these women were raped and abused by men prisoners and prison guards. Most of the women in prison were presumed to be prostitutes so they were made to act more lady like, but these women were treated like men. Since the 1800s prisons have changed drastically. Then a prison cell could be a hole in the wall. There were no toilets in the cells, prisoners were made to use a bucket and they were not emptied on a regular basis. Prisoners were not allowed to eat their meals around other prisons; their food was pushed through the bars in the cells. That was if they got food every day. Today’s prisons get three hot meals a day and are allowed to eat with other prisoners. They are able to get an education and allowed to work outside the prison. Prisons today have clean water for showers and toilets in every cell and each prison cell has a ground. And today’s prisons are all separate for men, women, and children. The reason prisons were segregated is because it was believed the penitentiary regimen was too hard on the tender youth, juveniles would learn bad habits...
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...DeErica Martin “In 2008, more than 2.3 million Americans (0.7 percent of the US population) were incarcerated, in nearly 1,700 state, federal, and private prisons, and more than 5 million Americans were under other forms of custodial supervision, including probation and parole, for a total of 7.2 million Americans-3.2 percent of the US population-under some form of custodial of supervisory control of the criminal justice system (120).” African American men make up a majority of the US prison population. This is bad being that some African American men are look down upon. It was mentioned that all African Americans men that are incarcerated is about 5 percent compared to the 1 percent white men that are incarcerated. This means that African Americans men are 10 times more like to be incarnated then white men. Thesis: The purpose of this essay is to analyze the causes to African American incarceration such as racial profiling, sentencing disparities, and exonerations; having a life is not what they have....
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...The Prison Population Info 122 Amanda Wahmhoff Ins: Tiffany Gabbard February 12, 2013 The prison population is an ever changing number. Both men and women are sentenced to prison for various reasons and for different amounts of time. There is how ever a difference in the number of the different races that are sentenced for prison terms. As well as the usual problems there are also other problems that women have to deal with. We will talk about these problems and what they mean. When we talk about prison population most people think about males and the problems that they face. Most people do not think about the women in this kind of environment. Women face the same problems that the men face but there is one added problem with the whole thing; a woman gets raped and can end up with child. The biggest problem with this is that it is the guards that are doing it. Women in a prison in Tallahassee have had problems with being raped by the guards. “Women prisoners and guards alike have been complaining about sexual abuse by male guards at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)...
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...with men. There were no women prisons. They may not have been put in the same cells but their daily activities, so to speak, with the men. The women had to do hard labor just as the men had to do. They would be responsible for cooking, cleaning, sewing, and laundry. They were also subject to sexual abuse by the male inmates as well as the male guards. Many of the women survived prison by becoming prostitutes. Women prisons have changed quite a bit over the years. “Elizabeth Fry began her work to reform the conditions of English women’s prisons in 1816, the reformatory movement, and the United States developed later in the mid-nineteenth century. Prisons for women then diverged into two directions, custodial institutions and the reformatory” (law.jrank.org).There were also children that were sentenced to the same prisons men and women were in. In the 1800s there were three basic arguments established to support juveniles being separated from adult prisoners. The first argument was that the penitentiary regimen was too hard on tender youth. Second, juveniles would learn bad or worse behavior from older inmates and be embittered by the experience of confinement. The last argument was that adolescents could be reformed if they were diverted early enough into institutions designed specifically for people their age. If there were no distinction between juvenile and adult prisoners, juveniles would be exploited, raped, and beaten. Lastly, the purpose of prison labor...
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...Check Point: Development of Corrections CJS/230 September 11,2013 Mr. Jerry Shoate Today in society prison a place where people are physically confined and usually deprived of such wide range of personal freedom the overall imprisonment or incarceration penalty that may have been imposed by the state for the crime that the person have committed. Prison for women were non-existent before the 1800s. When you through about the prison it was all the men, women and children all in one room together. Later on in the 1800s women who were put into prison were being treated no different from men. When the women were in prison they had to endure hard labor like cooking, cleaning, laundry and sewing but no matter what went on in prison women were expected to act like women should act but treated like man. In the women prison today a lot of things have change women are now kept separated from the men even though in certain state there are men and women still in the same prison but in different buildings. Prisons today have now started to offer prisoner education course for them to earn their high school GED, also job training to make things easier for the prisoner to be able to maintain a job and a bed for them to sleep in. There were three arguments that they were trying to establish in the 1800s that supported the separation of the juveniles from adult prisoners would be that if the juveniles were put into the same penitentiary with the adults. Secondly, people felt that...
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...RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 2 “According to the U.S. Justice Department, in 2003 about 10.4% of all African American men between the ages of 25 to 29 were incarcerated, as compared to 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of non-Hispanic White men” (DeVry, 2015). This topic is critical to the study of cultural diversity because of the racial disparity among the young African American males in the criminal justice system and the lasting effects of incarceration. This research paper will unveil the truth about why African men in this age group are much more likely to be sent to prison than are people of White or Latino descent. . African American men are often charged and prosecuted more aggressively than White or Hispanic men. This paper will also reveal the adverse mental and physical health endured by black males during incarceration and upon release. Recent studies indicate that inadequate education and low socioeconomic status has a direct correlation between black males and crime. As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse nation, many studies confirm racial inequalities exist amongst judges, lawyers and legislation. This creates the very serious concern of racial profiling. While racial profiling is illegal, studies prove that black males are more likely to be stopped and searched. New York State is only one of two states that automatically processes, prosecutes and incarcerates 16 and 17 year-olds as adults. Legislation...
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...Overcrowding in prisons American Intercontinental University English Composition ENGL107 Abstract Overcrowding in prisons throughout the United States has become an issue that needs to be more of a concern to our justice system. If we focused on more of the solution then the problem we may be able to eliminate some of the overcrowding issues. We need to be asking ourselves how we can fix the overcrowding issues within the United States prison system. Overcrowding in our prisons Drugs are a major issue along with the strict laws on first time nonviolent drug offenders. We are leaving these people in prison for way to long. Instead of overcrowding our prisons with first time drug and nonviolent offenders, we should be sentencing these men and women to rehabilitation centers and counseling. This should be the first option for the justice system to be considering instead of just locking these men and women up for two to five years and overcrowding the prisons. These first timers need more help to improve their life, and throwing them behind bars is just giving them more criminal activity to learn then they did on the outside. The justice system should be taking severe nonviolent criminals with mental illness more seriously. Instead of just locking them up and throwing away the key, there should be a lot more intense evaluations going on with mental illness with in these men and women. This could solve a lot of the overcrowding if we could just...
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