...became a new employee of the prison system I wondered what it was like to live in that small cell. So I went into an empty cell and sat there for 30 minutes. It only took me 15 minutes to realize that I could not bare it any longer. I realized that it must be difficult to sit there hour after hour, day after day and year after year, waiting for a day that you can leave. However, sometimes something worse happens to those who sit there wasting away. They become adapted to living that way, which they cannot exist any other way. It is very true, that inmates become better criminals when they leave the prison. It is also true that many become continual inmates meaning that is the only way for them to exist. When you place a person in a cage and treat them like animals they become animals. I must state that there are some people in our society which act like animals and they have to be treated and control like such for the safety of society. If while reading this and it comes across that I am angry, good you have picked up on that...
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...treatments in prisons. Some German prisons do not even have a unit that is separate from general population for people who are trying to get drug free. In Poland there are therapeutic communities that are made available for women who are drug addicted. In Austrian prisons they seem to be the most well equipped women’s prison, they have psychiatric treatments as well as substitution maintenance for inmates who are drug users (Zurhold, Moskalewicz, Sanclemente, Schmied, et. Al , 2011). Female prisoners who have participated in drug treatment programs have said that they feel better prepared for life after prison. Drug treatment programs help get woman clean an in control of their lives which can stop a cycle of violence against them since it is been proven that female drug users have a higher chance of being victims of abuse (Wormer, Persson, 2010). There is still help after treatment/prison....
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...You can argue on what the policies for allowing literature in a prison should be, you can argue that because of one’s action they do not deserve to be given special treatment or treatment as if they were still among civilization. Policies to allow prisoners access to all fundamental capabilities that we as free citizens have, may seem unfair to others. To have a controlled prison with no access to literature, or basic human needs, where the inmates are there to serve their time and nothing else; there would be no change. Through analysing what prisons are like inside and out, I have an understanding that prison is corrupt. Every prison is different, and has different opportunities available to them. Different states all treat their inmates differently, different policies, and different rules. By analysing and understanding what kind of opportunities are presented to each prisoner I am able to better understand what kind of a policy to give on allowing literacy in prison....
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...Imagine being in the court room, your hoping and praying for the death penalty of the man who has taken the life of your 10 yr old daughter; after raping her and then beating her within an inch of her life. Leaving her deep in the woods to suffer, as she hopes someone will find her and save her, as she takes her last breath alone, violated, scared, and in horrific pain. Death penalties should be an option for prisoners who have life or consecutive life sentences. Instead of allowing them to take up space in prisons, some prisons are overpopulated, and could utilize the space, the number of prisoners without life sentences far outweighs those with life or consecutive life sentences, with those prisoners sequestered it allows more space for...
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...Redemption by Frank Darabont, symbolism was used to highlight the importance of holding onto hope. Darabont's use of different symbols at different points in the film educates the viewer in the importance of holding onto hope. "Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies". Shawshank Prison was represented as a place of hopelessness at the start of the film. However it was through the opera scene, the libary and the symbol of water that that the viewer could get an insight to how "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Shawshank Prison was represented as a place of hopelessness. The conditions and brutality set about to dehumanise the prisoners and destroy their hope. During Andy's arrival at Shawshank, the symbol of the prison yard is highly symbolic, reflecting how it is imposible to escape, how crushing the system is. The system and forebidding. The prison yard is shown with a helicopter travelling shot revealing the massive Gothic towers and high walls, the immense area of the compound, in comparison with which humans are puny and insignificant. It also gives the reader an insight of the "high security" intimidating nature of the surroundings. This is shown with surrounding stell mesh fencing, grey walls, a bleak sky, ruthless guards, gates guarded, tight security, guards up high with machine guns. Surrounding the prison yard, jeering inmates rattle the steal mesh fencing like caged animals...
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...punishment was retribution. With the Age of Enlightenment and utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens are responsible for perimeter security and maintaining an orderly, secure internal environment. Wardens often regard themselves as administrators, rather than leaders. As wardens become more educated, the formal structure of modern prisons is likely to resemble a large, private organization with an established hierarchy and defined responsibilities. When governments confine people, they assume certain responsibilities toward them, including provision of constitutional living conditions, thus avoiding law suits and court interventions. Other management issues, such as classification, custody, and control, are also a high priority for modern prisons. During the last several decades, there has been a move toward professionalization in—moving from custody to control to care. Achieving scientific, uniform, and successful administration of public punishment through professional development is the goal of the American Correctional Association. In this professionalization effort, issues such prison health care, privatization, and diversity of incarcerated populations are the frequent focus of correctional studies. This Week in Relation to the Course This week, you focus...
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...Pennsylvania System Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Pennsylvania System Prisons are places were reform is supposed to take place. The means by which prisons initialize reform varies from rehabilitation programs to solitary confinement. This paper examines the Pennsylvania System and how its principles were extrapolated for the modern prison system. The next section provides an overview of the Pennsylvania System. The Pennsylvania System In the 1800s the Quakers were a religious order. Like most religious orders they followed the path of God and thus new that sin was part of their lives. With that being said that also knew that repenting of their sins would lead them back to God’s path. Individuals who were committing a crime were obviously sinner and were in need of repentance. The laws of the land stated that criminals would go to jail but that was not the only solution. While in jail the prisoners needed to know that their actions would not be tolerated by God or by man. The formation of the Pennsylvania system was based on the idea that solitary confinement would bring about change in the prisoners. This change was anticipated in the form of penitence and reformation. At the time the founders of this grand endeavor were the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2013). The predominant members were Quakers and drove the decisions and actions of this committee. The implementation of...
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...and Futures in Criminal Justice CJA/394 The paper will evaluate the past, present, and future trends that have had a profound affect in the development and operation of institutional and community-based corrections. The need of prisons and prison administrators is most important in the criminal justice system therefore, the paper will identify the current and future issues today. In addition the paper will evaluate the corrections system as a developing trend pertaining to the issues and the role of alternative corrections. Development and Operations of Institutional Corrections In prior years the development of institutional corrections left nothing to the imagination. The perspective of development and operations of institutional corrections is one fact that the facilities’ inmates were housed in the conditions were dark and fifthly. Inmates were treated harshly, and worked extremely hard. Today the development and operations of institutional corrections play a part where constitutional rights are in affect. Inmates today although the prison systems are overcrowded they are with constitutional rights. One constitutional right an inmate is entitled to today is health care. The prison system today functions differently. Rules and regulations are enforced but not by the hands of the facility but by the law. Facilities today although overcrowded are no longer dark, and fifthly. Inmates have three meals a day, shower access, time in the...
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...punishment was retribution. With the Age of Enlightenment and utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens are responsible for perimeter security and maintaining an orderly, secure internal environment. Wardens often regard themselves as administrators, rather than leaders. As wardens become more educated, the formal structure of modern prisons is likely to resemble a large, private organization with an established hierarchy and defined responsibilities. When governments confine people, they assume certain responsibilities toward them, including provision of constitutional living conditions, thus avoiding law suits and court interventions. Other management issues, such as classification, custody, and control, are also a high priority for modern prisons. During the last several decades, there has been a move toward professionalization in—moving from custody to control to care. Achieving scientific, uniform, and successful administration of public punishment through professional development is the goal of the American Correctional Association. In this professionalization effort, issues such prison health care, privatization, and diversity of incarcerated populations are the frequent focus of correctional studies. This Week in Relation to the Course This week, you focus...
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...Physical, Dynamic and Procedural Security Considerations in a Custodial Environment Physical Security Cells: Cells are essential for the effective security of a prison as they are used for the accommodation of inmates. This is where a prisoner place will spend most of their time during their time in prison. Work, education, rehabilitation programmes, visits or exercise and recreational time are the only times that an inmate can leave their cells. . In some cases an inmate may only leave their cell for a short period of time over a 24 hour period. Inmates’ cells are often checked daily as part of a routine and searches are put in place to ensure high levels of security and safety are upheld. <> Prison Officers: Prison officers have a critical role in physical security as they will have the job of patrolling the prison and surrounding areas to ensure that they are secure. They will also guard critical areas such as the main entrance and cell blocks. Throughout the day and night they will conduct routine checks of all security areas - some will be frequently checked whilst others will be checked when necessary. They will also have the role of responding quickly to alarms or calls for backup from colleagues well as questioning and reporting suspicious behavior. Search Area: The search area will cover the whole prison, however some areas will be searched on a regular basis (routine) whilst other areas will be checked when security concerns or information available suggests...
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...Resettlement has been an important element in prison life throughout England and Wales for many years. It is when “prisoners and their families receive assistance and support from the prison and probation services and voluntary agencies to help them prepare for life after prison” (Justice, 2002). The objective is to hopefully lead prisoners towards recidivism, which will hopefully return ex-offenders to normal life, employment and housing. Criminological and social research done by Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) identified the following factors to be what influenced reoffending. These are; education, employment, drug and alcohol misuse, mental and physical health, housing, financial support, debt and family networks. The aim of this essay is to...
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...http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/4669/2/ GEO Group Argument that private sector can handle prisons better and cheaper than the government Somethings should not be for profit http://core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI2110/Prison_Industrial_Complex.htm http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Masked_Racism_ADavis.html http://www.prisonsucks.com/ Paper Topic: The Prison Industrial Complex [Name of Writer] [Name of Professor] [Course Title] [Date] Prison Industrial Complex Prison Industrial Complex – Origin and Establishment The term prison industrial complex ‘ refers to an American criminal justice system that has been substantially transformed by almost three decades of rapid growth and by the increasing importance of private interests in criminal justice policy ... All these factors combined to provide an opening for private sector involvement in prison management and speculative prison building The third factor contributing in the transformation of the American corrections system can usefully be referred to as what Sir Leon Radzinowicz calls penal regression ... the machinery of justice in a democratic society should never be cut off (Radzinowicz , 1991 ) In the American case , massively disproportionate incarceration rates among communities of marginalized peoples , a growing tolerance for violence as a means of social control , and the replacement of rehabilitation with punishment...
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...an actual prison, the Yuma Territorial Prison is one of the most important pieces of history that still exists today in Yuma, Arizona. The territorial prison was chosen to be placed in Yuma, Arizona for many reasons. The prison was originally supposed to be placed in Phoenix, Arizona, but two representatives from Yuma, Jose Redondo and R.B. Kelly wrote in the name Yuma and the planning for the building began. The prison was located east of the Gila River, North of the Colorado River, and West of Yuma. One of the reasons behind putting it here was to discourage escaping. In order to come up with the design and layout of the prison, the prison held a contest and the winner would receive $150....
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...Prison Abolition Jessi Lee Jackson and Erica Meiners, authors of Feeling Like a Failure: Teaching/Learning Abolition Through the Good the Bad and the Innocent, analyze the prison system in the United States and necessitate the abolition of these organizations due to their ineffectiveness in society. The authors critique the technique of the police force alleging these institutions to either being racist, sexist, classist, or a combination of either and disproportionately scrutinize these victims causing a majority of them to end up in the prison system. The authors’ informative article continues to examine the prerequisite of abolition of these prison system and presents detailed information on the proper way of living without the need of the prison systems and promote more effective alternatives to the situation. Some of these alternatives includes ensuring the communities have viable jobs that are not dehumanizing and placing a higher set of standards on the education and health care systems to become more accountable for the uneducated and mentally ill respectively since these classifications make up a majority of the incarcerated. It also challenges individuals to find ways to communicate effectively with each other rather than relying on the police force. It highlights the importance of including this information on abolition into the education curriculum for the outcome of producing a more stable and beneficial society. According to the Critical Resistance, abolition...
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...women is an underrepresented issue of utmost importance. Despite having established rules, regulations and codes of conduct regarding the matter, a large number of these women fall victim to inadequate healthcare and rehabilitation programs, sexual violation and overcrowding amongst others. In many a country incarcerated pregnant women are still shackled while delivering their babies and some only get to see their child once. Lack of efficient prison systems gives people who were imprisoned due to their drug habits a flowing supply of drugs. The problem, therefore, lies in the implementation of the set rules and regulations rather than the making of these regulations. Brazil has strongly backed treaties like the International Covenant on...
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