Essays on Prison Violence

Correctional facilities are experiencing the affect of gangs and their influence on violence. Most of prison violence has been made up of folklore blaming guards. Inmate to inmate assaults are calculated to 28 attacks per 1,000(Clear, Cole, Reisig pg.281). These violent actions are directly related...

America tops the world in incarceration rates and ratios per population. “As of mid-2006, approximately 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated in local jails, state and federal prisons.” In the 1970s the incarcerated ratio stood at 165 per 100,000, in the 1980s, the proportion increased to...

Juvenile Offenders in Prison “According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the number of delinquency cases involving detention increased 29 percent between 1985 and 2009 from 246,300 to 318,000.” The dynamic role the Juvenile Justice System has structured has not only been...