Essays on Prison

After researching the prison systems in my state of Pennsylvania, I found two treatment programs that got offered to inmates. This paper will get provided to the department headin Centervale. The paper will answer a series of questions that will address the legislature towards solving...

OVERCROWDING IN PRISON Some prisons in the nation have been reported with poor conditions. Among the causal agents of the worsening state of the jails is overcrowding. Some state prisons have absorbed a high number of prisoners, hence exceeding the carrying capacity of the prisons....

Somalia scores very low for most humanitarian indicators, suffering from poor governance, protracted internal conflict, underdevelopment, financial decline, poverty, social and gender discrimination, and environmental dilapidation. Despite civil war and famine raising its death rate, Somalia’s high birth rate and a large percentage of people...

The United States of America has been fighting throughout history for individual rights and freedoms, ever since 1792 when Kentucky was the first state in the US to ban felons from voting. Now, the only two states that one can vote while in prison are...

When one generally thinks of art therapy, the use of it with some of society’s most dangerous individuals does not naturally spring to mind. Prison inmates are a unique cohort living in an unnatural environment. Cognitive or behavioural issues may have contributed to an individual...

The use of correctional rehabilitation in the law is to help those convicted to decrease the chances of their behaviours to happen again. This is to educate and motivate prisoners to be better. Programs differ between facilities, and each program focuses on different aspects and...

“Narrative of Neglect: Texas Prisons for Men” highlights the progress and injustices in Texas Department of Corrections from its inception to 2011 (Price, & Coleman, 2011). It is nearly two centuries since the creation of the Texas prison system, however there have been 37 changes...

Who is Bernard “Bernie” Madoff? Madoff was a Ponzi schemer who stole somewhere about 50 billion dollars from al around the world. He did this through his company Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. What criminal act was he charged and convicted of? Madoff is...

Each year, the number of juveniles that get convicted and are placed in the adult prison system is incredibly high. Personally, I do not believe that this has any benefit whatsoever. It is stated that young men/women who are sent to adult prisons are not...

During Jesus’ time, many people were imprisoned unjustly. Although some countries have made immeasurable progress since then, in many countries, people are still imprisoned for their beliefs, or even who they are. Homosexuality is illegal in 73 countries, Nigeria being one of them. People are...

Abstract The purpose of this extended essay is to answer the question, “To what extent is the disproportionate incarceration of African-American communities responsible for black nihilism?” Nihilism, according to Cornel West, is the “lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaningless, hopelessness, and...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate among developed countries and the rest of the world. The question of “why” is always asked. In order to understand the answer to that question, a look back into history is necessary. There is no one specific...

Mass incarceration can be defined as the incarceration or imprisonment of a large number of people. According to the Prison Policy Initiative blog, the current rates of mass incarceration in the U.S are as follows: Local Jails has 721,654 inmates, Federal prisons 216, 362 prisoners...

Decades after the ratification the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the United States in various ways. Currently, mass incarceration is the greatest form of slavery in America as it was depicted in Ava Duvernay’s documentary titled “13th”. The criminal justice system in the United...

America has been taking measures to ensure that crimes do not go undetected or unpunished. This has led to an increase in the number of people who have been incarcerated. In recent years those who are being incarcerated come from all races, religion, genders, and...

The first juvenile court in the United States did not open until 1899. Prior to then, children over seven years old that broke the law were sent to adult prisons. There is a juvenile justice system now but there are still a lot of juveniles...

It was early on the Sunday morning of August 17, 1971, when the Stanford Study Experiment first commenced. A college student was confused as he heard sirens blaring and a police officer placed him under arrest and drove him towards Stanford University. The “prison” made...

Case Currently throughout England and Wales, there is a total of 117 prisons. 104 of those are owned publically, the remaining 13, owned privately. The aim of this case study is to determine whether punishment should remain a government duty. To do this, the study...

The debate over private prisons is highly controversial, and most of the opposition is due to transparency, but private prisons offer the government the ability to transfer certain prisoners out of government run public prisons to reduce overcrowding, reduce cost, and provide greater flexibility in...

Background Violence between prisoners has been an underlying and worrying problem in prisons. It can cause a considerable amount of harm – both physical and psychological (HM Prison and Probation Service, 2018). Many prisoners are regularly assaulted both physically and sexually, threatened or harassed. The...

The topical area is the correctional facilities and specifically the prison facilities in the U.S. the research paper will focus on the problem of violence in prison, its causes, and the role that various stakeholders within the prison facilities play in fueling the problem and...

The main purpose for the prison system in the U. S. is for retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation. In the U. S. people are imprisoned every day. The U. S. prison system imprisons more of its citizens for more crimes, and for longer periods of...

Introduction Imprisonment and its effectiveness has been under great debate in the recent years. Prisons were relied upon as a means of social control and this has further increased in the 20 years in the United Kingdom and especially in the United states. We rely...

Tent city jail underlined Joe Arpaio’s service as the Sheriff of Maricopa County. The tent city jail were developed to ease the increasing inmate population as well as punitive measure for many criminals within the Maricopa County. The jail had the capacity of 2,100 although...

Critical Race Theory (CRT)CRT is a useful theory to use when critically confronting and analyzing matters of race and racism. CRT has many key elements, each that allow a certain feature of racism to be taken apart piece by piece. The main canons this paper...

During the times of Paul, the early Christians had been persecuted and wrongfully treated because of their beliefs. The Roman officials would declare these life styles to be “unlawful” so many Christians were wrongfully imprisoned. In today’s times, injustices are still happening around the globe....

Introductions In this assignment we are going look at how prisoner/ offenders are victims in prison to sexual assault, abuse, rape. We will also discuss how women manage motherhood in prison and whether their children should be allowed to have special visitation rights. South African...

“These are the worst of the worst”, a victim’s family member openly states at the beginning of the film. ‘When Kids Get Life’, written by Ofra Bikel, a Frontline documentary filmmaker who investigates the stories of five Colorado males serving life in prison for crimes...