...Prisons have always been an important integral part of the criminal justice system and the society as a whole. Although, prisons differ between countries and it changes over time. To some extent, the functions of prisons all operate in the same facilities. Not surprisingly, there are two somewhat conflicting debates when it comes to the argument of the effectiveness of prison. Some have argued that prison is a useful institution that does work to prevent reoffending. Whereas, some have argued that prison is an ineffective institution that does not work to prevent reoffending. Yet the question itself has far too many layers to be analysed in order to reach a consensus whether or not prisons are truly fulfilling their purpose. This essay will...
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...The purpose and occasion for writing each of the Prison Epistles The first letter that Paul writes to the Ephesians, he starts out praising God and giving glory to Jesus. The Ephesians have always supported him on his ministry by giving him money. So I feel that he had a special love for them since they had done so much for him. I guess you could say he felt a little obligated to make sure that they were walking the path of Christ. He also wanted to remind them that good works are the outcome, not meritorious cause, of God’s forgiveness and gift of a new life [Colossians 2:10] He also did not want them to forget about the poor and to remember to love one another. Also in this chapter he makes mention of how the relationship between a man and a woman should be conducted as well as the relationship with Christ and the church. In Paul’s second letter that he writes to the Philippians, he was concerned about their enemies of the gospel. There must have been a rise of false prophets that came around and misleading the people. The people were not being taught the proper message that Jesus had left for the people. Paul calls these people troublemakers in his letter. Paul felt that the people were becoming selfish as well as heartless with each other. There were two women that were fighting each other that he knew. He just felt that things were not as they should be. [Philippians 4:2]. In Paul’s third letter to the Colossians, there are two reasons why he is writing them. First: He...
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...Therefore, they had eventually banned flogging and decided to use prison as a corporal punishment. After many years passed, in 1997, Jeff Jacoby decided to explain his thoughts towards prison in his essay “Bring Back...
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...Running Head: INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENTATION Introduction to Argumentation Viengdavanh Cordero EN 1420 1. The chosen argument is B, “Prisons should focus more on rehabilitation and education than on punishment.” This argument will be presented to a group of law enforcement agency and then to a group of educators who are doing volunteer work in a prison. 2. Law enforcement agency: a. Strategy i. This is a group of law enforcement agency who I will assume have the knowledge of law enforcement to operate their ability to apply their restrictive powers. ii. The purpose of this argument is to persuade the law enforcement agency that it is in their best interest to support rehabilitation and education than punishment. iii. The contextual points will support the notion that what is better for prisoners as a whole will improve less population, drug abuse and crime in prison and in the long run. b. Argument: In order to have a society ran by people for the people, we must have order. It is up to law enforcement agency to ensure that prisoners are given a chance to re-enter society and become law-abiding citizens. It should be the mission of the government to rehabilitate the prisoner no matter the infraction. For example, if a prisoner has mental issues, there should be rehabilitative therapy implemented, so that the mental prisoner can be productive behind bars. Also by focusing on rehabilitation and education, it reduces recidivism and generates...
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...health and issues in the prison systems (Correctional Philosophies and Practices, 2007). Federal correctional facilities have maintained the code of safety and a well-run security. There are two different types of correctional philosophies one is that the purpose of correctional organization is to punish the offenders while the other philosophy is that the purpose of a correctional prison is to rehabilitate the offender. While all prisoners are incarcerated for crimes that they committed the purpose of imprisonment is to punish the criminal while rehabilitating the offender so that when the offender is released he or she will be a better civilian. These two philosophies are the foundation for our prison systems however the overall effectiveness is up to the administration within the prisons, within the classroom readings the Stockholm effect on the prison guards was noted. The Stockholm effect on the prison guards is where the prison guards or develops sympathy towards the prisoners and because of these things that shouldn't happen in prisons and are highly regulated and limited would happen such as special favors, prison escapes, substance abuse, and internal sexual assaults. With this new rehabilitation for the prisoners will be less likely and because of that the prisoners that will be released will end up committing crimes and wind up back inside the prison system. This revolving door syndrome is the main cause for our overpopulated prison system and overburdened criminal...
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...Throughout the decades, studies have been conducted to address the question of whether prisons work. The prison is a system used by the State to punish criminals, which is justified by the concept of retributivism (proportional punishment) and crime reduction (Cavadino & Dignan 2007, p36; Pollock 2005, pp3-4). According to the actuarial perspective (Feeley & Simon 1992), prison works in certain circumstances, as it efficiently minimises risks to society by confining individuals of dangerous population for the purpose of social control. However, this risk-focused view of prison’s functionality is limited, as it lacks understanding of the imprisonment of vulnerable groups, since Actuarialism overlooks the cultural factors outside risk-calculations....
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...There Needs To Be A Balance It seems like people are at an all out battle as to how prisons should be run. Some say punitive prisons are far too harsh and some say rehabilitation centers go way too easy on the prisoners. So why don’t we just come to a middle ground? We should put the serious murder and physical abuse crimes in punitive prisons while putting the drug abusers and people addicted to substances in rehabilitation facilities. It’s highly unfair to the people that are damaged by drugs and need help recovering from them are being put in prisons far too harsh for what their crime really was. On the other spectrum, it’s also highly unfair for someone who has murdered a bunch of people to be put in a prison that treats itself more like rehab. Those criminals deserve to be punished hard for the devastation they caused their victims family and have no right to have to be cushing around. The way prisons would work effectively is if they had different sections in the correction facility that dealt with the varying degrees of crime. On one side of the prison there should be prisoners held there that deserve more of a rehabilitative approach, such as maybe an 18 year old kid who had consensual sexual relations with his 16 year old girlfriend (statutory). On the other side, there should be prisoners held that deserve a more punitive approach such as someone who sexually abused children. While the two both fall under sex crimes, one is a more severe crime than the other and...
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...and Prison Paper CJA/204 March 31, 2014 Prisons and jails have many similarities and differences. They both play a significant role in our criminal justice system. Many aspects affect the roles of jails and prison’s cultures and subcultures. Both facilities have a role with community-based correction programs. Jails and prisons serve as a means of housing for individuals that are convicted and prosecuted for crimes. A lot of violence and negative behavior takes place in both jails and prisons. There are different levels of prisons and location plays a big part in what type of criminals are housed in different facilities. Probation and parole are a part of the process that is involved within jail and prison sentences. I live in Maricopa Arizona where our jails and prisons differ depending on the type of inmates and location of the facilities. Most locals are familiar with our main prisons and local jail housing cells. There are different type of prisons even though all of them serve the same purpose of housing those who have broken the law. Those that are incarcerated are kept away from free society and during lock up our limited to most freedoms. Each prisoner serves different lengths of time based off of their individual sentence and crime. The different types of prisons are juvenile, minimum, medium, high security, psychiatric, and military. Juvenile prisons are there to house anyone under the age of eighteen that is convicted of a crime. Minimum security prisons are...
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...Purpose and History Chris Souza CJA/234 May 5, 2014 Moore When you think of the purpose of prison, what comes to mind? To house some of the world’s most notorious criminals? To rehabilitate those who has seen the evil of their own ways? Or has America's melting pot of philosophies has made it difficult to manage societal institutions? Throughout this paper the discussion of how the history of prison development was established. The history of punishment for those who committed their crimes will be in focus. We will compare the Pennsylvania system and the Auburn system to each other. Finally, the impact of prison labor overtime shall be discussed. For some the purpose of prison is to protect society from criminals who intend to harm innocent civilians. For others a prison's purpose is to rehabilitate citizens who need skills to become upstanding members of society. Still others believe that a prison provides a way for criminals to be punished and therefore pay their debt to society. Within the correctional system of America there are varying degrees of incarceration. The history of punishment in corrections of prisons can be dated back as far as 1750 B.C. One of the earliest known written codes that specified different types of offenses and punishments was the Code of Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi was divided into sections to cover different types of offenses and contained descriptions of the punishments to be imposed to offenders. (Lych, 2014) There were five punishments...
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...Purpose and History Paper of Penitentiaries Ericka N. Williams CJA/234 May 14, 2013 Matt Holquin The development of prisons date as far back to the early Roman times, which forms of punishment were being used for offenders suspected or convicted of criminal activity. Prisons have developed and modified the effectiveness and appropriateness of punishment over time to function the way they do in today’s society. The correction process is among three of the major components of the criminal justice system, but could not be successfully complete without the police and the courts. There are two types of systems that prisons use to design and enforce punishment among offenders – Pennsylvania and Auburn. The systems tweaked and modified the original ideas, in order to form a prison system that would be effective and serve the purpose intended for criminals and impact and distinguish the amount of involvement of prison labor over time. History of punishment The history of the word punishment derives from the Latin word peonalis. Before the word punishment was used penology was the term used, which meant “punishment.” The term penology was later replaced by the term corrections. Our criminal justice system has a broad perspective of corrections for the criminal offenders convicted of criminal acts against another person or community. The use of punishment in earlier days resulted in public shaming, which was thought to prevent the accused from committing future crimes. These...
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...To the attention of the Prison Governor North of England Sir, Following are some national scale statistics related to prisons’ performance and associated costs as issued by the Center for Social Justice in March 2009A. which I would like to use as argument in reply to your statement on Total Quality. - Prisons population has increased dramatically in the last decade, counting as of today about 83000 people; - Approximately three quarters of young prisoners under 25 and two thirds of all adult prisoners are reconvicted within two years of release; - Today, the annual public expenditure costs of running prisons and managing offenders is over £5 billion, which combined with £11 billion costs of re-offending as estimated by Social Exclusion Unit (in 2002), amount to an annual total of £16 billion. Relating statistics to your statements, I agree with you, “Total Quality is a myth” but I add “because people in charge fail to commit to it” Although not directly related to our business, I want to use these statistics as a means to show the impact of Total Quality culture as compared to traditional management style of prisons. A critical analysis instead, leads to the conclusion that prisons management and the correctional system is stuck in a closed cycle between overcrowding and failure to rehabilitate. This is part of a traditional prison management where more of the same, brings in turn more of the same, resulting in long term progressive loss, both financial...
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...Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison Hope Washington CJS/230 Introduction to Corrections May 5, 2013 John Feltgen The punishment ideals of penitentiary is for punishment, to remove those who are a danger to others from society and to reform those that can be released back in to society ideal of a penitentiary. Most criminals go to prison and come out and be better than before and then you have those individuals that still don’t the same thing and go right back to prison. Prison is suppose too reform criminals but when you really don’t have a care in the world it really does not matter if you go to prison. The principal goal of a penitentiary was for the offender to think about what they have done in isolation with no other prisoner contact. The American prison system was divided amongst two different types: Eastern State and Auburn. Both prisons were run in very different manors and my intentions are to explain each prison and the goals that they had in mind. The penitentiary was designed to be a place where punishment would be given in a humane way to people who had committed a crime. People who were incarcerated could receive rehabilitation as well as gain spiritual improvement while serving their sentence. The prisons should be a place where an individual would do their time as well as reflect on the events that led them to incarceration and make a choice to change their life around. Prisons were not made to be a comfortable living space so punishments and...
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...Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper John Eckert CJS/255 April 4, 2016 Crystal Dalman Jails and Prisons both serve the same purpose; the purpose is to punish people that have committed a crime. Typically, jail type sentences are misdemeanors that are one year or less of time served. Prisons incarcerate people for over one year, the types of crimes can be misdemeanors or felonies, anything that is punishable to more than one year. Another difference is that jails are locally operated and prisons are operated either by the federal government or the state government. Another huge difference is that people that go into prison have already been sentenced, jails are also a place where people are held until they are given a court date and a place for them to be held while they are going through their trial. When people are sentenced to jail, they are relatively close to the families. A person that is sentenced to prison can be put anywhere in the state or united states. There are approximately 100 Federal prisons, jails, and detention centers in the United States, the rest of the prisons and jails are ran by individuals and states. Prisons and jails are both overcrowding, jails and prisons are very costly to construct, which is the main reasoning for the overcrowding. The jails and prisons that are in business now are in rough shape, they need to updated, that is also very costly. Correction facilities have been here for hundreds of years. Colonial America used diverse...
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...The purpose and history of penitentiaries Nakethia Polycarpe Introduction to Corrections/CJA/234February 16, 2015 Professor Jason Driver The purpose and history of penitentiaries The history and purpose of penitentiaries started during the year of 1700’s, I have learned and read that the first prison was created to house criminals or anyone who committed an act of crime. During this era, criminals while in jail were expected to read the bible and to concentrate on the crimes they committed. Penitentiary which means (a prison for people convicted of serious crimes), began to be use to help to describe the facilities used to hold the prisoners serving sentences or the place to work off the crime. The History of Punishment The purpose and history of penitentiaries The history of penitentiaries started in the eighteenth century. The punishment was known to be extremely brutal which included things such as torture beatings, branding and mutilation. American colonies based their development of punishment of the English criminal codes as well as the incorporation of the Puritan’s matching of crime with sin or wrong doing. Also, I have researched that bolections of expected community were dealt with several using corporal and capital punishment to help stop violence and bad behaviors. British society started to move away from corporal punishment and toward imprisonment with the hope of reforming the mind and body. These changes ultimately helped to form the way for penitentiaries...
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...Informative Speech Outline General Purpose: To inform the class Specific Purpose: To describe to the audience a brief history of Alcatraz. Thesis: Alcatraz has been a popular social topic because of the mystery that surrounds it and the stories exaggerated in movies and television shows. INTRODUCTION I. If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to Alcatraz. II. Alcatraz has been a popular social topic because of the mystery that surrounds it and the stories of mistreatment and escape attempts exaggerated in movies and television shows. III. Alcatraz served as the federal government’s response to post-prohibition America. Both the institution and the men confined within its walls are a part of this era. The most famous inmate being, Al Capone and others like George “Machine Gun” Kelly and Robert Stroud, the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. A. First, I will talk about the penitentiary opening where difficult prisoners from other institutions would be transferred to Alcatraz, also known as “The Rock”. B. Then, I will discuss life on the island and as an inmate in the prison. C. And last, I will discuss the popular culture of Alcatraz; including some failed escape attempts before the closing of the prison. BODY I. First, I will talk about the penitentiary opening where difficult prisoners from other institutions would be transferred to Alcatraz. A. Alcatraz opened in 1934, as a wave of gangsterism and...
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