...I really like prisons The day I turned 11, we met ”The King of Leaves” when leaving the residence. His nickname arose from his skills in raking fallen autumn leaves. My mother took me to school that day, probably in order to help me carry the cake or the ’flødeboller’ that I was to give to class. Seeing the King of Leaves, I happily told him about this being my birthday. He instantly wanted to give me a gift, some Ga-Jol liquorice, which was everything he had at the moment. Our joy was short. My mother was kind, but determined, when declining the gift. One does not accept presents from inmates, that’s it. Other children knew prisons, too – though to them they had to to with the Dalton Brothers (from the European cartoon called Lucky Luke), the Beagle Boys and cartoon-striped uniforms for inmates. I knew those, too, but at the same time I lived in a real prison: The State Prison of Sdr. Omme, where my father was the warden. The prison entailed three zones: Outside, inside and the inner core, which was home to the inmates and where I was not allowed unless with my father. We went there way too seldom. At the age of five – ten years, I would have spent most of my time in the ‘inner core’ if I had been allowed. The inmates were just as fond of the prison child as I was of them, but apart from that the prison was really interesting. I was allowed to go much more often to the office building, on Sundays, where the head quarter officers offered me Danish pastry (a...
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...Echeverrria COR 202 Prof. Williams Assignment “American Me" tells the story of the man who was stopped at the bus stop by cops and asked if he has done some time in prison. His name is Santana. He is a Hispanic American who grows up in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang and goes to prison when he still in high school. Now prison is his school in where he learns skills and by the time he is back on the streets again, he is a better educated criminal. During prison time, there is no punishment or the extinction of crime but there is the training of crime. Santana leads with the reality of street gangs and prison, in where drugs is the finance process to create a professional criminal class. According to a women voice in the movie, Santana is two men, one men is fearful and sweet, and doesn't know how to dance, or make love. The other man is a murderer. Santana’s life is cover many years in the movie in which it shows how a sweet man can change gradually to a killer. Santana is a person who hide his secrets but he is an excellent leader when he knows how to handle the consumption of cigarettes in prison because that is the only symbol in prison. He knows better how to run the operations from the inside of the prison as well as the drug issues outside of it. He takes control of the drug traffic from the inside. But, from the outside, he falls in love with a woman that makes him change in somehow the way he is acting. Santana leads his gang in a rebellion against the Mafia...
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...always coherence between the outer and inner, and that’s the reason why you shouldn’t judge a person by its outward appearance alone. This issue is a central theme in the short story Sorry for the Loss in which Bridget Keehan makes use of the contrast between the conception and the actual reality. The short story Sorry for the Loss takes place in a prison. We are told that the character Evie must notify Victor E22A about his grandmother’s death. After some time, the prison guard leads Evie to the prisoner's cell, where she delivers the message. After the meeting she walks away with a strange feeling of not succeeding. The story starts in medias res “Evie has to tell Victor his Nan is dead” (ll. 1), and one must therefore quickly get an overview of the persons and the environment in the short story, as one are thrown into...
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...structures. In prison, unlike most environments, the stakes of adaption are high. Non-conformity does not simply lead to ostracism; it can lead to victimization or death. In many ways prisons turn our understanding of deviance on its head. In a world of persons whom society considers deviants, those who do not conform to the (deviant) rules of prison society are the deviants. In some ways, these deviants are more like the normal members of general society than the normal members of criminal society. This is not always true, of course, but in some cases does apply. It is not unusual, therefore, for individuals in such a situation to band together for safety and survival. However, some groups form more cohesive, complex organizations with their own set of rules that result in activities which move far beyond the simple need to survive in a hostile environment. These gangs often take advantage of their strength within the prison walls to create profit-making enterprises and to disrupt normal prison operations (Camp and Camp, 1985). Prison gangs present a threat not only inside the penitentiary but outside as well, because of their well-established connections with drug trafficking organizations and street gangs. What happens within the razor wire has an impact on society in general not only because most prisoners will eventually be released, but because resources that might have been spent on rehabilitation are spent on combating gang activities (Fleisher and Decker, 2001). Prison gangs...
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... Repeat offenders in the prison system are becoming a revolving door. This paper will examine and give your percentages and statistics of how many become repeat offenders due to the fact of the amenities inside most prisons. Gathering information from different prisons and their living conditions have brought a great deal of questions to why are they offered so many for free. Given information on resources shortages in different welfare-related areas, such as education, employment, housing, social relations and health, affect the risk for re offending. Data on their living conditions were collected by personal interviews, articles and statistics from Department of Criminal Justice. Although, the data was inconclusive in many of these areas, many implications for instruction are presented. Much of the data linked to their history of becoming repeat offenders. Findings of data that reflected their efforts to stay out of prison was affected by their of living conditions and some of the luxury amenities are primarily felt by those who at the time of interview had not previously served time in prison are making crime a career. Also, researching and comparing when jail standards were not as important as they are now. Reflecting that the conditions that have improved for them did quit enlighten the nation’s legal system. Proving that the overcrowding was due to repeat offenders who choose come back believing life was better inside rather than the real world. Overall, more finding the...
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...choice of specialty would be in corrections oriented toward involuntary conferment of the mentally ill; this is because I have worked in this field for the last decade; Dr. Oberhoff centres his field of interest in malingering, deception, recidivism, psychopathy, and rehab for criminals. Theorists that contribute to Dr. Oberhoff area of interests are scholars such as Robert Hare (psychopathy); Rick Rogers (Malingering/deception); and Richard Rogers etc. Our evolving world, multicultrism, poverty, and the highest incarceration rate in the globe- the field forensic psychology is still considered at its early stages. (Bartol and Bartol, 2012) My two personal favourite theorists are Dr. Roger Hare, and Dr. Lorna Rhodes. There are many reasons as to why I chose these two theorists as my favorite for their efforts and contribute in to the field forensic psychology, and correctional services. It was noted by Dr. Gibbons and Dr. Katzenbach (2011)… “What happens inside jails and prisons does not stay inside jails and prisons” (Gibbons and Katzenbach, 2011, p.36). Being surrounded by negativity, fear, anxiety, rumors, hostility, and threat of physical violence have a profound effect on both the staff and offenders in a correctional facility. Dr. Gibbons and Dr. Katzenbach(2011) further state “when people lived and worked in facilities that are unsafe, unhealthy, unproductive, or inhumane, they carry the effects home with them”( Gibbons and Katzenbach, 2011,p.36). United States has one...
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...Burlington County Prison In 1811 Burlington County had built their first prison. The cost of building the prison was over $24,000, they went over the budget 2.5 times. It was a stone structure made to house only 40 inmates. The huge door in the front dates back to 1811, so do the locks. Nothing has been changed on the building since it was closed in 1965. Inside the building, it was poured with concrete walls, stones and bricks. The only thing that was done to the building was the walls were repainted to match the white they had in 1811 when it first opened. During the time of the prison being opened, the prison was overcrowded. The approximately amount that the prison was made for was 40. At times they had 100 inmates in the prison. Cells that were made for 4 people had 8 inmates in it at a time. They had to move to an armory to house the inmates because they were getting to many inmates. That’s when they decided, they would have to build another prison but bigger. In November of 1965 they closed down the prison. During the times of the prison being opened they held their own execution. If an inmate was convicted and was ordered to be put to death, they would hang them in the back yard of the prison. To this day they still have the gallows and everything else their, as part of the museum. The Burlington County prison was not just filled of inmate but have said theirs paranormal activity going on. They say it’s the man of Joel Clough, who stabbed his girlfriend to death...
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...recounts how he planned and carried out his wife’s murder and accidentally killing a neighbor and child as well and earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. Red also remembers the arrival of an inmate named Andy Dufresne, whose tenure at Shawshank affected the lives of everyone at the prison. Andy was sent to Shawshank for life for the cold-blooded murder of his wife and her lover, a pro tennis player. Despite the damning evidence placing him at the scene of the crime on the night of the murders, Andy has always maintained his innocence, which Red eventually comes to believe in as well. Andy has some initial difficulty adjusting to prison life, especially because many of the other prisoners think he’s a snob. A gang of men known as the Sisters frequently attack and rape him in the laundry room while the guards look the other way. Andy fights the Sisters, even though it always lands him in the infirmary and sometimes solitary confinement. Despite these hardships, Andy never complains or loses his confidence. Soon after arriving at Shawshank, Andy approaches Red and asks him to get a rock hammer because he’s interested in rock collecting and carving. After a while, he also pays Red to smuggle in a large poster of pinup Rita Hayworth. A new inmate arrives at Shawshank and tells Andy that he served time in another prison with a man who privately admitted to killing a pro tennis player and his mistress. When Andy asks Norton, the warden, to request a retrial, Norton dismisses...
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...Shawshank Redemption’ by Frank Darabont, it informs us about the hardships in the prison of Shawshank and hopes to achieve freedom. The characters in Shawshank Redemption present a variety of social issues. Throughout Andy and Red’s sentence in prison, issues of identity, motivation, and anxiety are brought about within the film. Darabont shows us the affects of prison life during and after a prisoner’s sentence in prison. Shawshank Redemption portrays these social issues through the movies’s theme of finding freedom. The idea freedom is presented in the scene earlier in the film, when one of the prisoners ask Andy at the cafeteria ‘are you gonna eat that?’Andy didn’t want the food and handed it over which was fed to the tiny bird in the other mans pocket. The bird symbolizes freedom because when it had fully grown and was able to fly, it was set free by the man who took care of it. Freedom is shown by the production technique, lighting. The event that takes place in a dark jail cell, light shines through the bars of a little window where the bird is set free. We understand the idea freedom when the bird flies out towards the light and freedom and is no longer confined inside the pocket of the man also kept in jail. During the 1940’s, a young banker named Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank prison in Portland after being falsely accused of murdering his wife and her lover. In this high security prison Andy experiences isolation and harsh treatment by both inmates and guards. Red...
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...10 Prison Subculture and Prison Gang Influence LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Discuss the prison subculture for inmates and correctional officers. 2. Compare importation theory with exportation theory. 3. Identify different aspects of prison culture that explain how offenders and officers view the world around them. 4. Discuss how professionalization and the diversification of correctional staff have impacted the prison subculture. 5. Discuss the impact that prison gangs have had on prisons, including the traditional prison subculture. 6. Identify the 13 gangs listed in this chapter as the primary prison gangs in the United States. 7. Explain what prison systems do to control gang problems that occur in their facilities. chapter I will stand by my brother My brother will come before all others My life is forfeit should I fail my brother I will honor my brother in peace as in war Aryan Brotherhood Oath INTRODUCTION This chapter provides students with a very unique aspect of the world of corrections. Students will learn that within the institutional environment, there is a commonality of experiences that arise between those who are involved; this is true for both inmates and staff. Indeed, many people may not be aware that, in fact, the mind and the world of the inmate often affect the mind-set of security personnel who work with the inmate. In essence, there is an exchange of beliefs and perspectives that often come together to produce a unique fusion...
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...How can the police or prison or probation service be seen to be effective? Critically examine measures used and explore alternatives. Introduction: Imprisonment and jailing has been an effective way to protect the society from corrupt people and individuals with criminal tendencies. The theory behind imprisonment is to isolate the wrong-doer from the society as the person can be harmful and dangerous to other people, and also stop him from enjoying civil liberties, thus enhancing the sense of deprivation and lack of freedom as a punishment to deter him from repeating the crime in the future. Although this may sound an ideal way to deal with criminals, the ground realities are quite different from the expected results. As no solution is perfect and without flaws, the same goes with this problem of handling criminal behaviour and controlling uncivil citizens, thus increasing problems inside the prisons and penitentiaries. Prisons hold a complete new world inside them. As the most dangerous people from all over the country or province/state are collected in a single space, the chances of different mishaps and unwanted happenings are increased a hundred fold. Therefore, the prison service or probation service should be capable of handling such situations. Furthermore, the prison service should competent enough to prevent any incidents from happening at all. Containing any undesirable situations, preventing jailbreaks, controlling prisoner riots, thwarting murder attempts...
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...Jail and Prison p 2 In the Criminal Justice world the jail and prisons play an extremely important role to society. These facilities have a history just like any other part of Criminal Justice, and were created with great Purpose. There is much about these facilities that are not known by the general public. This paper will Educate on the types of prisons, also the concept of the prison as a whole institution. I will also go over The community based corrections programs. Maybe one of the more important topics is the violence behind the walls, that is not always mentioned to the public will also be covered in this paper. Then finally, I will go over the concept of parole and probation, along with the role of truth in sentencing. First, we have many types of facilities just in the United States, for example; there is State Facilities which are run by the State Department of Corrections, and each state has many of the facilities. Arizona alone has at least ten of these prisons across Arizona, some states have more and some less. Prisoners in these facilities have violated state laws in some fashion or another. There are also Federal Prisons, which hold prisoners who have violated federal law. There are private prisons that are owned by private companies. In some cases, such as Corrections Corporation of America they will contract with state prisons and take...
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...amendment and fourteenth amendment. The first amendment brings a general protection for the free speech, establishing of religion and the free exercising of any religion, press, the right of the people peaceable to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievance. The first amendment provide equality freedom for all the citizens of the United States, but In the history of prisons of this nation the inmates claims an innumerate irruptions of the first amendment such as; the freedom of speech and expression like the visits of friends and loved ones, those visits are a form of expression. However, the prison visits are not a complete right because it has a lot of limitations. Other example of expression is correspondence but not all the mails are sending it to the inmates for different reasons. Is logical when the first amendment talk about free speech but the amendment does not protect the offensive and fitting worlds, at the same time the nude pictures to the inmates are not ban by prisons. The last source of right from the first amendment is the freedom of religion, in the prisons the rights of exercise a religion has a potentially function because there are...
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...Prisons are currently being run by private owners so Team C has taken on the task of consulting with a private facility that houses those offenders who have been sentenced to active time in the Department of Corrections. Private prisons are no longer ran by the state so the prison can offer programs and training that can help with the rehabilitation of offenders. Team C believes that rehabilitating offenders will cause them to better transition back into society after their sentence is served. Team C will discuss policies and procedures of the prison, budgets, projected revenue sources, communication and technology. Team C will also discuss the cultural aspects of the prison as a whole and an integration plan that will include interactions...
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...Prison Comparison Kiesha Silvious CJA/324 Introduction to Corrections November 28, 2011 Jason Huskey Prison Comparison The penitentiary was more of an idea or a set of principles than a physical institution with shape and form. It was a concept rather than a building. What was the penitentiary supposed to be? Its purposes were both secular and spiritual. It was supposed to be a place of humane punishment as opposed to the physical punishments still prevalent in Western societies. It was supposed to be a certain punishment, the common punishment of all serious criminals, to replace the diverse penalties applied or often not applied by judges. It was supposed to be clean and healthy in contrast to the jail and to avoid the kind of contamination both of body and of spirit that took place in the existing lockups. This meant that criminals in custody ought to be separated from each other as much as possible, preferably in isolation. Finally, and perhaps foremost as a social purpose, it was supposed to practice corrective discipline to create habits of industry through the application of strictly enforced rules. Prisoners ought to work steadily at productive labor, not sit around idle as they often did in old jails and prisons (B. Foster, 2006). In early prisons, convicts commonly produced goods the penitentiary sold directly to the public on the open market. This was called the public account or state account system, meaning the prison was the merchant with no middleman. Over...
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