Prison Essays & Research Papers

The existence of Prisons can be traced back to the ancient period. Initially there was a belief that rigorous isolation and custodial measures would reform the offenders. In due course it is being substituted by the modern concept of social defense. Custody, care and treatment are the, three main functions of a modern prison organization. For over 100 years, there was emphasis on custody which, it was believed, depended on good order and discipline. The notion of prison discipline was to...

The first major historical development of the U.S. courts was would be the Penitentiary Era (1790-1825) The Walnut Street Jail was America’s first real prison in Philadelphia. The prison was ran by the Quakers who thought that prison should be a place where offenders should may make amends with society and accept responsibility for their misdeeds. (Schmalleger, 2009) The Quakers elements of philosophy included rehabilitation and deterrence which is still used to this day. Penance was the...

Bullying in Prison Bullying is common within UK prisons, which report consistently high levels of violence and aggression(ref). A 2000 ESRC survey found that nine in ten prisoners and staff agreed with the statement: ‘violence in prison is inevitable’ ( Edgar and Martin, 2000) and the Justice Inspectorate found 26-43% of prisoners had been victimized by prisoners or staff depending on age, abilities, ethnicity or religion (Justic Inspectorate, 2014) Recent studies suggest over half of UK...

Overcrowding in United States Prisons State prison overcrowding has become a very detrimental problem over the last few decades. After being overlooked for so long, what we are left with is an ineffective correctional system that needs reformation. The problem has been growing, possibly even since the first correctional facility was created. As cities started to grow, there needed to be more laws. Along with more laws came more offenders. Even though prison is designed to punish...

Prison Reform Catherine Johns Axia College of University of Phoenix Most people who enter prison are lost. They have no direction in their life. They cannot find structure, so they turn to crime. They need help but they do not know where to turn. Think of how our world might be if there were better programs focused on reforming out prisoners while they are serving their time. The prison recidivism rate would decrease. Crime rates would lessen over time. Prisoners will have the opportunity...

Punishment in Prison The criminal justice system sentences people to prison for various felonious crimes they have admitted to or have been found guilty of. A prison sentence is punishment for those types of crimes. However, for some, a prison sentence in today’s world is nothing more than a vacation from reality. State and Federal Prisons have turned into a recreation hall and free pass from hard labor. Prisons should implement the punishments they were intended for, and that being isolation...

Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Idrees Ahmed CJS 230 June 9, 2012 Ray Delaney Jr Rehabilitation Rehabilitation The good in rehabilitation is when it works. “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink”. The same principal is at work with rehabilitation. The programs can be made mandatory, but that doesn’t mean the inmate will adapt their behavior to accept the programs. Rehabilitation comes from inside a person. The person must want to change his...

Prison Abuse Americans all know that our prisons are the final frontier for the socially rejected criminals and violent offenders. Once they are convicted, prison is their new home. For which it can be five years or the rest of their lives until death. When the door closes behind them the rest of the world doesn’t matter. It is inside the prison that matters. Those of us who are outside the prison are unaware of what goes on in there, such as prisoner’s abuse. Violence within America’s...

Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com, a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes....

Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is become one of the major financial and controversial problem in the United States. The prison population is increasing rapidly, and we have only one reason the judicial system is given length sentences to cases that don’t deserve it, for example most of the offenders in the United State prison are drug cases, these sentences must be considered and most of the drug offenders should be put in rehabilitation centers instead of putting them in prison....

Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a problem largely attributed to the increase of drug convictions. Decades of tough-on-crime laws coupled with minimal financing for treatment programs have left prisons overcrowded and under funded. With the advent of crack cocaine and the response of a scared nation President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1982 (Clear, Cole, & Reisig, 2009). In 1987 congress implemented mandatory minimum sentencing effectively increasing the...

California Prison Overcrowding December 16th, 2013 Prison Overcrowding in California Alarming issues that causes society to stir up continue to expand every day. Some of these issuesinclude the educational system, existing healthcare laws, unemployment and economic matters,and the water crisis… all of which are major problems in California. One major problem, however, is often ignored. Over the past two to three decades, California’s prison population has grown by 750...

Prisons in America By Jesse Pinzon D.F.Jochims ENC 1101-30067 July 22, 2013 Research Paper Pinzon 1 Jesse A. Pinzon D.F.Jochims ENC 1101-30067 July 22, 2013 Prisons in America The development of the prisons in America has had and continues to have a huge impact on the American country. These prisons continue to expand and develop as time goes on. The American country adapts in ways that are not only beneficial but also in ways that are unfortunate as these prisons continue...

 Many people in the United States do not know that there are differences between jail and prison and what they are. Local jurisdictions, such as counties and cities, use jails to detain offenders for short periods of time. A prison, or penitentiary, is controlled by the state, and is used to detain convicted criminals for longer duration (Schmallenger, 2011). A jail is designed for short term offenders, and has more amenities than a prison. Jails house individuals who have...

Prison Privatization Privatizing prisons may be one way for the prison population to get back under control. Prisons are overcrowded and need extra money to house inmates or to build a new prison. The issue of a serious need for space needs to be addressed. “As a national average, it costs roughly $20,000 per year to keep an inmate in prison. There are approximately 650,000 inmates in state and local prisons, double the number five years ago. This costs taxpayers an estimated $18 billion each...

Abstract This research paper will consist of an analysis of the use and abuse of illicit drugs within the prison systems on a global basis. With information gathered from various sources such as the internet and one on one interviews with an inmate in a male correctional facility and a former inmate of a female correctional facility I intend to show the rampant flow of drugs in and out of the prison system, the control of (or lack there of) by prison officials, the drug gangs and...

Prison Population Tammy Settles CJS200 August 17, 2010 John Scott Throughout history prison has and continues to reach high rates in population. The increase in prison population has different possible causes. These causes range from strict drug laws prohibiting repeat offender’s more time in prison. Parole violations land some of the worse offender’s back in prison for longer lengths of time. Sex offenders would be more likely to go back and repeat the same crime or even murder their...

Street gangs have been a part of society for centuries so it’s inevitable that gangs would also be present inside jails and prisons. Gangs date back as far as biblical times and consist of a group of individuals that have similar ideas and are working toward a certain outcome. Individuals in gangs inside and outside of jails have caused many social problems that range from drug dealing and using, gambling, murders, and human trafficking. Gangs work and are established like society in general....

Jails are always overlooked, but they play a very important role in our justice system. The jails is the oldest of all of the correctional components, and have several missions and roles to play in our justice system. Jails have been around since 1166. the first jail was established in England, and was used to detained filthy, poor, and individuals with medical attention. John Howard drafted the penitentiary act of 1779 with the assistance of English house if commons. This act added four...

Jail and Prison Jail and Prison Many people think jail and prison are the same. In the past, I honestly myself thought that the only difference between jail and prison was prison was a bigger building than the building for jail. In fact, there are many differences between prisons and jails. Both are different entities. Here are some of the differences that you’ll want to know about if a member of your family, a close friend, or yourself is facing the prospect of going to jail or to...

Prison Overcrowding In America’s tough economic society, over population has become an exceedingly hot topic issue. However, overcrowding in America’s prison system has been a severe problem since the 1970's. The majority of the changes have come from different policies on what demographic to imprison and for what reason. The perspective of locking up criminals because they are "evil" is what spawned this (Allen, 2008). Because of this perspective the prison system in America is in need of...

Video #4: Ihawig Prison and Penal Farm Challenge: Political Prisoners in the American Hegemony Response: In 1898, the Philippines got its independence from the Spanish hegemony. After 6 months of being a free country, the Philippines was once again ruled by the Americans. During the American occupation, some Filipinos were captured and held as prisoners. Some prisoners couldn’t be accommodated at the Bilibid Prison in Manila so they were thrown in a specific area of Puerto...

Three inmates could be released from prison today. Two of them will end up right back in the system within three years. This statistic should be enough to conclude that America's prison systems are failing miserably with the rehabilitation of inmates. How is it plausible for every correctional facility to think isolation, segregation, and overcrowding could possibly benefit the crime rate? Instead of converting these inmates into proper citizens, the system has found ways to hold them down. To...

Prisons of the future Will there be more people on probation or more people in jail? Yes to both, there will always be crime. Most likely a large increase in the near future due to the incredible rise in crime within the juvenile population, which in turn leads to more adult criminals. Our prison systems of the future need to be looked at from a proactive point of view before reforming the prisons themselves. Lawmakers need to look at making sure that the punishment fits the crime and then is...

 Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons The United States has an every growing criminal population. The two main ways to house criminals is jails, and state prisons. The San Diego Central Jail is the primary jail for San Diego county and houses more than 900 inmates on a daily bases. The Donovan Correctional Facility houses more than 3,666 inmates at one time because of an increase in its original population limit; however, that also shows the need for more prisons and housing...

Do prisons deter crime? Considering the recidivism rate, the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense, of the United States, no, prisons do not deter crime. The recidivism rate of prisoners in the US is 60%, one of the highest rates in the world. Prisons take criminals off the street, but fail to cure their need to commit crimes. Prisons, in a sense, add fuel to the fire. I believe prisoners leave prison in a worse state of mind than they were before they were...

Life in Prison Willie Lee Clark University of Phoenix Institutional and Community Corrections CJA383 Sherri Webster April 25, 2011 Life in Prison Prison life in most society is not considered a life worth mentioning. When a person decides to break the law and take up a life of crime, he or she should be aware of certain circumstances that lie ahead. When individuals break the law in our society, the pathway to a life in jail or prison is almost certain. Life simple freedom that...

A prison system which is first and foremost a place of punishment cannot be relied on to eliminate criminal behaviour. Only punishment without education could not teach the prisoners that their behaviours are criminal and harmful to the society; however, an appropriate education strategy could. Consequently, the recidivism can be reduced. For example, several criminals commit a crime because of a lack of law knowledge. If these prisoners could be educated what a crime is, they would not commit...

 Jail and Prison Daniel Luna University of Phoenix CJA/234 September 29th, 2013 Jay Manges Jail and Prison Confinement facilities in United States serve as the locations to keep criminals and suspected criminals away from the rest of society. The jail and prison systems have many similarities but have different missions in the correctional system. Jails, prisons, and the correctional system are constantly adapting to ensure safety to the public. The following will discuss...

The Purpose of Prison Robert Lingo CRJ 303 Bridget Lott March 2nd, 2012 The Purpose of Prison Not everyone is model citizens within a society. Individuals cheat people out of money, murder, rob, and rape others within society. When people commit crime against others and not stay within the law they must be punished. This research paper will discuss the purposes for prisons, and analyze conditions of prison. There are programs in prison and out of prison to try to reduce an individual...

Prison Environment Checkpoint Kaschelle Nichol CJS/230 August 22, 2012 Lester Julian Prison Environment Checkpoint The prison environment is defined as the atmosphere of aspects within a prison, including: inmates, guards, facilities, privileges, morale, etc. A prison environment is strict and isn’t happy. The main goal being punishment, the overall atmosphere will be low, and considering...

------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4, 2013 INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4, 2013 Table of Contents 1. What are Gangs? When did gangs come into existence? 2. How do gangs finance/support their groups? 3. Different types of...

Prison Population: Getting in and Staying in Prison is something everyone fears, someplace no one would ever crave to be. When people speak of prison, it is thought of as a ghastly place, a detrimental affluence. With the vast amount of faculties intended for getting populace into prison, one may start to believe that the regime of our country would relatively incarcerate anybody experiencing a lawful crisis, rather than deal with the predicament and allocate them to lead liberated lives. The...

Jails are the washbasins of the correctional system. They are the oldest of the correctional components and yet it still has a difficult mission and role while having to be diverse. Jails hold a variety of inmates, those who have been arrested, detained pending trial, sentenced to short terms of confinement for minor crimes, and those being held for administrative transfer to another unit. These facilities face issues such as dealing with unknown offenders, managing medical problems and...

The concept of the prison has existed for more than two thousand years. It probably goes back as far in time as practice of cannibalism, where victims had to wait for their turn in contributing to the chief course in the menu of their captors. Examples of prisons can even be found in the Old Testament when Joseph was incarcerated in Egypt. It was not until the 19th century that a clear shift occurred from corporal punishment to imprisonment. As societies prospered and the industrial revolution...

Privatization of Prisons As state budgets throughout America become tighter because of rising costs, many are looking at private prisons as a way to reduce the cost in detaining inmates. Just like everything else in America there has to be a debate about it. There are those that are for the privatization of prisons and those that are against it. James A. Fagin introduced this topic in his text book CJ2013; he discussed the major selling point of private prisons, and the problems that states...

Proceedings of The National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2009 University of Wisconsin La-Crosse La-Crosse, Wisconsin April 16 - 18, 2009 Prison Culture, Education, and Recidivism Rates Caleb L. Fry and Lauren T. Rios Department of Anthropology Lake Tahoe Community College One College Drive South Lake Tahoe, California 96150 USA Faculty Advisor: Daryl G. Frazetti Abstract Given the number of inmates in the prison system and the high level of recidivism, it is important to seek out...

Prisons and security An example of a state prison system is located in Huntsville Texas, and is the Texas department of Corrections. The department was established in 1849. Because of the strict controlled environment this facility because the facility to which all were modeled after. The growth of state prisons is mostly because of the fact that prison is supposed to be a cure all end all. People are sent to prison on the grounds that whatever happens there will be a deterrent for future...

Garrett Lorberau ENGL 1301 Mr. Vernazza 9:30 class mon-wen Prisoners Need College Let’s just say you have no money to support your family because you can’t get a job. The reason you can’t get a job is because you don’t have the proper education to be hired. This is the problem for most repeat criminals are facing. But even though they are stuck in this endless circle of crime and struggle there is hope. That hope is them getting an education in prison in which they have been in and out of...

Jails and Prisons Tammy Johnson CRJ303: Corrections Professor Jeffrey Cudworth January 7, 2013 Jails and Prisons Jails and prisons are both types of sanctions that are used for convicted offenders that have committed crimes, but there are many differences in the two. “Jails are locally operated short- term confinement facilities originally built to hold suspects following arrest and pending trail. Today’s jails also serve these purposes: * They receive individuals pending...

Assignment: The prison system The penitentiary rivalry has cause a lot of changes within our American prison system. The rivalry implemented design changes every so often which led to better prison population and control of the inmates within them, because every state wanted the best prison system. A few of the changes that came from these rivalries were how they built the inmate cells, they built them so that the inmates or criminals inside them could not see the other inmates or have...

PHCC History of Prisons Ì Intro to Corrections Dale L. Smith 02-01-01 BIBLIOGRAPHY · Dreidger, Sharon Doyle, and Kevin Marron. "Canada: Special Report--The Prison System." Maclean's. Toronto, Canada. April 15,1996 p.24+. · "Haiti: Human Rights Practices, 1995." Country Reports of Human Rights Practices for 1995. March 1996. · Hongda, Harry W. "A Grim Organ Harvest in China's Prisons" World Press Review. June 1995. p. 22-23. · Lawrence,...

The cost of imprisoning an offender is high. With western regions like the US, UK and Australia experiencing consistent rising imprisonment rates and the limited availability of public resources, efficient use of prison and criminal justice resources is imperative (Marsh, Fox & Hedderman, 2009). A cost benefit analysis (CBA) of prisons essentially measures how effective and efficient certain criminal justice interventions are. Marsh et al. (2009, p. 146) states that this measurement is done by...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons oversees 114 correctional institutions throughout the United States. Most of them are classified as Minimum to Medium security, Levels I-IV. These facilities house everyday criminals, and only contain a very small number of high-profile, high risk inmates. There are 22 prisons, however, that are dedicated to keeping the most dangerous humans in the country off the streets. These are Super-Maximum Security prisons, or Supermax. They are classified as Levels V-VI, and...

Sexual coercion in prison is a more polite way of saying prison rape or pressure to have sex and giving into the pressure. Prison sex is a topic not many, like to touch on. However it is estimated that thousands of men, mostly young, or incapable of defending themselves have been coerced into performing sexual acts in prison. Another less talked about topic, or less understood is the primal need for companionship. Homosexual activity happens in prisons through out the world and through...

Jonathan Hackshaw 9/18/2012 1st Period In the United States Supreme Court, life in prison for a juvenile should not be mandatory. Juvenile killers should have their case considered and have the court and jury have the last say on that individual’s case. Children and adults under the age of twenty-five do not have a fully developed brain. Therefore they cannot think of the future consequences and results. Children are impulsive and usually act before they evaluate a situation. These impulsive...

The Prison System CJS/200 The history of the American prison system was based partially on the prison system of 18th century England. Whereas the American prison system emphasized punishment as well as rehabilitation and restitution the English system did not. Those offenders incarcerated in the English prison system were comprised of, those awaiting trial, banishment from the community, debtors, or those awaiting execution. The American prison system evolved when William Penn...

Prison inmates, are some of the most "maladjusted" people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are "at war with themselves as well as with society" (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or believe it when...

Contraband can be defined as anything prohibited by law being imported and exported. When it comes to prisons, anything that can’t be bought in the commissary or that isn’t given to them when they get to prison is contraband. Contraband is a major issue behind the walls and can be anything from a “homemade” shank by the inmate, or drugs or weapons smuggled into the prison from various ways. Not only is different types of contraband in the prison a threat to the inmates lives, but also a threat...

Crisis in Reform Reaction Paper Picture 1978, I walk into Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County N Y. It is my first week on the job as a state of New York Correction Officer, I am not shocked at what I see I am in awe. This facility housed approximately 800 inmates, these women were confined in in different parts of this huge facility, from the reception area where they stayed for the first two weeks upon entry to housing units as they were called. My reaction, to this...

Prison Overcrowding? No Problem! Nowadays, overcrowding in prisons has become a serious concern in the United States, especially in California where there is not enough space for the increasing inmate population. And according to the most recent statistics from California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state gives a bigger budget to prisons than any other state. With annual spending of about nine billion dollars and forty-five thousand dollars per inmate, California...

Privatization of Prisons Private Prison, Inc. Introduction America has been getting tougher on lawbreakers. This is something that the public long has been demanding. The problem it creates, however, is a shortage of prison capacity to hold the increased numbers of convicted criminals. This has led to: prison overcrowding, sometimes prompting court actions against penal systems; rapidly rising operational outlays; and taxpayer resistance to the cost of new prisons. A partial answer to...

Saman Biglari Prof. Escalante English 101 Research It used to be that Mexican immigrants who were caught crossing the border into the U.S illegally were mostly treated as a deportation case, and were not actually prosecuted for a crime. In 2005, that changed. The federal government decided to ramp up prosecutions under an internal program called Operation Streamline. This new law caused a huge rise in immigrants, mostly Mexicans or people from Latin decent, to be incarcerated in the U.S....

Language is a very diverse aspect of each culture and can differ from state to state, city to city, and even community to community. A community that has a very unique language is prison. Prison inmates use a language called argot, which does not make sense to the average person, but is very necessary to inmates and guards. Argot is the more scientific term for criminal jargon or prison slang but it is used mainly to communicate between criminals and to create a barrier to keep others from...

download word file, 22 pages ( 36 KB ) 4 7 reviews Downloaded 1262 times Keywordscriminals, prisoners,hypothesis, meld,warehouses 0Like0 Overcrowding in America's Prisons: Can Repeat Offenders Be Rehabilitated Thesis Statement and Hypothesis: Prisons in America are overcrowded, understaffed and I believe put very little emphasis on rehabilitation. Introduction: The American prison system was set up to rehabilitate prisoners so they can meld back into society as productive citizens....

Life in Prison – Behind a Convict's Eyes Crystal Fisher Introduction This paper is about the book "Behind a Convict's Eyes" by K.C. Cerceral. This book was written by a young man who enters prison on a life sentence and describes the world around him. Life in prison is a subculture of its own, this subculture has its own society, language and cast system. The book describes incidents that have happen in prison to inmates. With this paper I will attempt to explain the way of...

From coast to coast in America, prisons have become a growing concern; the concern being how well prisons actually work. Over time, the amount of people being caged in our country is increasing. Right now there are approximately seven hundred fourteen out of one hundred thousand people that are imprisoned. Some may argue that prisons keep the criminals off the streets, but did they happen to think that prison is actually teaching them to become a better criminal and hardening their hearts to...

Prison Overcrowding Sherita Bowens American Intercontinental University April 24, 2010 Abstract Prison overcrowding is one of the many different problems throughout the world that law enforcement faces. Prison overcrowding not only affects those in law enforcement, it also affects the taxpayers in the community as well. The problem of overcrowded prisons is being handled in many different ways. Some of these ways have been proven to be sufficient and successful while others have not...

Prison Life Most people have no idea what it feels like to be in prison, statistically only one out of every five people will know what its like to be in prison. Approximately 1.4 million people out of the U.S.'s 280 million people are in prison. (Thomas, 2) The only reason people know about prisons is because of the media. The news, movies, and books all contribute to people's stereotypes about prisons. Prisoners receive three meals a day, workout facilities, a library, as well as other...

Abstract Maximum-security prisons are known to be designed and organized to prevent escapes and violence and to deter prisoners from harming one another including the correctional officers. Super-max facilities imposes strict limitations on the freedom of inmates and visitors. These prisons, usually an imposing edifice are prisons surrounded by high stone walls studded with guard towers. The purpose of these type of facilities is custody and discipline, it embraces military-style approach to...

 Prison Environment CJS/230 April 29, 2014 The prison environment could be define as a place to help persons convicted of crimes change their way of lifestyle, if it is a problem and serve out their sentence. The prison discussed in my readings is an environment where anyone from the cook to the janitor could influence someone to make a change in their thinking and their actions. What was once ran like a country under dictatorship, has now become a place...

 Territorial prison is not like others it has loads of history in it. It's said to be one of the most haunted places in Arizona. However it reflects the time, place of how life was in the 1900's to now. Going strong for thirty-three years until ending in 1909. The life of the prisoners must've been hard to survive to with the heat, lack of food, and the patience to get the heck out of there! Locations depend on how the conditions are of the land or how much space is provided. The...

 Jails And Prisons Adam Putnam CJA/204 February 18, 2014 Leroy Hendrix Jails And Prisons In the following paragraphs comparisons between the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford County, Virginia and Federal Corrections Institution Petersburg Medium in Hopewell City, Virginia. The types of prisons will be identified. The major differences between the Rappahannock Regional Jail and FCI Petersburg Medium will be examined. Jail and prison culture and subculture as well as the violent...

Danya E. Gregory Inmates and Prisons Paper Week 4 -CJAD 320-E1WW February 2, 2013 Imprisoning drug offenders may resonate with some who think prison is the only way to make their communities safer, at least while they are incarcerated. Yet, the overwhelming majority of drug prisoners will come back out eventually to rejoin society, many within just a few years or even months. Most drug prisoners will return to the community after a couple of years away, and will then return to prison...

Anthropology 9/17/2013 Prisoners and culture shock When a person who is used to having complete freedom is suddenly tossed into a cage with little to no privacy it comes as a huge shock to them. Everyone is tense, cruel, and cold hearted all the time, well this is the reality many people face when they are thrown into prison. You have to change who you are very rapidly or else you’ll probably become a victim of those around you. You need to have a tough appearance, you will see a lot...

The United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005. It became a medium security prison in 2005. It is located in Leavenworth, Kansas. It is an all-male, medium-security facility committed to carrying out the judgments of the Federal Courts. Leavenworth is one of three first generation United States Penitentiaries built in the early 1900s. The other two were Atlanta and McNeil Island(although McNeil dates...

State prison vs. Private prison Compared to a state prison, private prisons are privately funded, owned and operated by individuals or stockholders. Therefore many of our tax dollars are poured into these facilities, so we must sometimes overlook these costs for that of the safety and security of the public. In the 1980s the War on Drugs caused a burgeoning prison population and increased use of incarceration, prison overcrowding and rising costs became increasingly problematic for local,...

Introduction This research paper is on the history of the prison in America. How it came to be in its present state? Things I will be writing about in this paper are the early history of the prison history in England. I will be talking about early American prisons, the goal of rehabilitation, prison labor, changes in the prison system, rehab programs, population, housing and prison organization we will hit briefly on all those aspects of the history of prisons. The reasoning...

The Prison System History: The history of the prison system was basically functioned through principles that were commonly used in England in the early 1700’s and 1800’s. The prisons were so different in England because the prison facility was at one point dark, overcrowded and dirty. The prisoners were put all together with no separation of men, women nor the children. Who so had committed a crime was convicted of such. As the prison began to reconstruct in the 1800’s, most of the prison...

Renee Walker Colorado Technical University Online Phase 3 Individual Project CJUST685-1301B-01 Professor Christopher Marco March 11, 2013 ABSTRACT A significant amount of people are being incarcerated in the United States than any other nation in the world. According to the Pew Center, it was reported that there were an astounding one in every 100 adults behind bars in 2008, and many belief it is because the criminal justice system has incarcered their way out for...

Prisons and Jails Final Essay Teketta Fleming Kaplan University CJ101-04 Professor McCauley 12-14-2010 How Does Our Correctional System Punish Offenders? The government has imposed punishment as a means to control crime. There are four key justifications for punishing criminals: retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation (Seiter, R.P., 2005). These four justifications serve as the goals of the United States correctional system. The other side of retribution can be...

Jails and Prisons Kassi Crum CJA/234 June 18, 2013 Rodney Christiansen Jails and Prisons The earliest days of operating jails, which were more commonly known as “gaols,” consisted solely as detaining offenders who were waiting to be tried. The first was ordered to be built in 1166 by King Henry II. Vagrancy, meaning to have no real permanent home to live and just wandering from location to location was an increasing issue between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries....

Melissa Fletcher Professor Nagel English 1201: Summary 29 October 2012 Smith Goshin, Lorie, and Mary Woods Byrne. "Converging Streams of Opportunity for Prison Nursery Programs in the United States." Journal Of Offender Rehabilitation 48.4 (2009): 271-295. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. In their article “Converging Streams of Opportunity for Prison Nursery Programs in the United States,” which appears in Journal Of Offender Rehabilitation, the...

Attention Getter: Imagine you are told exactly when you can eat or shower and when you have to go to bed and when you must wake up. Well many of the prisoners on Alcatraz Island were treated in such a way. Psychological Orientation: If you were a prisoner on Alcatraz Island, every aspect of your life would be controlled by a higher authority. If you like to have a midnight snack every now and then, that luxury would be taken away. If you like to sit around and watch TV for hours, you can forget...

Jail and Prison Kyle T Klusacek March 11, 2013 Jail and Prison During the last three decades, prisons and jails have become full to capacity because of an increase in drug laws and repeat offenders. Before prisons took control, early punishments were brutal and not humane. There are two different cultures when discussing jails and prisons. Jails can be seen as short term whereas prisons are long term. Crime has been an increasing factor in today’s society, prisons and jails hold the...

 Privatization of Prisons By Yaakov Beiss Overview The American penal system has seen many reforms since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Growing incarceration rates has led to the overcrowding of prisons, increases in prison spending, and the need for further reforms. Privatization of the prison industry has been one the ways state and federal governments have sought to reduce costs. There are as many opponents of privatization as there are advocates....

Prison Education Commentary (Donovan Green image taken from National Geographic website) The day has finally come, standing there in his blue cap and gown, Donovan Green waits patiently to walk into the room where his graduation ceremony will take place. His daughter who he has not seen for over ten years is in attendance and he is full of joy. He has finally achieved something good in his life and with his new confidence he is determined to turn his life around. He has hopes and dreams of...

There are so many reasons why women make up the vast majority of prison’s population. According to the (National Women’s Law Center) women prisoners report significant histories of domestic violence. Thirty-two percent of women in prison about 4,000 women are serving sentences for murder was convicted of killing a husband, ex-boyfriend or boyfriend. Six percent of women are pregnant when they enter prison. In almost all cases, the woman is abruptly separated from her child after giving birth....

o Based on the ideals of a penitentiary, what should it be like? o What was the principal goal of a penitentiary? • What were the differences between the two prison models? • What were the benefits and the drawbacks of each model? • Which model was considered to be the winning model? The penitentiary was suppose to be a place that would be a humane punishment for people that had committed a crime. It was to be used as a place that people could get spiritual improvement as well as...

The ongoing debate about how women prisoners ought to be treated relative to their male counterparts will be a failure if it does not lead us to reconsider the predicates of the largely ineffective correctional system now in operation ... working through the problems of gender in the correctional system represents a terrific opportunity to rethink global correctional objectives, assess the utility of the approaches that have been tried, and refresh our thinking about what is likely to prove...

Prison System Janette Brown Garcia Westwood College Abstract A supermax prison is an institution that has the following characteristics: greater levels of restriction, limited visitation and programs, lack of congregate activity, and the increased degree of isolation from other inmates (Mears and Watson, 2006). Craig Haney (2003) describes supermax prisons as being marked by their totality of isolation, intended duration of confinement, reason for being imposed and technological...

“Prison Overcrowding: Using Proposals from Nevada and California to Recommend an Alternative Answer” By: Casey Apao For: Dr. Sarri CSN Fall 2010 Dedication: “I, the undersigned, Casey Apao hereby certify that without the assistance of Henry Apao this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper wouldn’t be done.” Signed , Casey Apao Disclaimer: “I, Casey Apao hereby certify that this Critical Thinking Scientific Paper is the result...

Prisons, facilities maintained for confining people convicted of committing crimes, were used to rehabilitate offenders while keeping them isolated from the community. The Quakers built the first prison in 1790 in order to seclude criminal offenders from society to think about their wrongdoing and to seek forgiveness in a kind, and spiritual environment. (Inciardi 497) Currently, there are three types of prisons within the Federal, State, and County governments. These are categorized by...

Prison Reform Rehabilitation Process CJA/334 July 13, 2013 Prison Reform Prison Reform is presented through the penal system in an effort to improve prisons, provided not only but also punishment rehabilitative efforts as well. Rehabilitation is one of the philosophical reasons for sentencing. The general area that will be studied within prison reform is its rehabilitation process. We will study the rehabilitation process as it pertains to both male and female. This study will also...

Prison Overcrowding Terence Ingram Professor Karina Arzumanova, Esq. January 27, 2013 Strayer University Prison Overcrowding Criminal Activity is on the rise. With prison populations growing at an all-time rate, the federal prison system has not been able to keep up. As a result, this is a serious problem which puts inmates and guards in danger and holds back efforts to rehabilitate convicts. ( McLaughlin, 2012) Violence will be on the rise as more inmates are squeezed into small...

Today we live in a knowledge-based era. Knowledge is the power, which can help us to overcome obstacles and be successful in life. To acquire knowledge, education is the mode. Education is capable of not only of changing a person’s life, but also of transforming a country’s system. Education is a major factor, which is crucial to helping prisoners change their lives and learn how to survive in society without resorting to crime. Education for convicts is fundamental to achieve the first...

Should prison inmates be allowed to take college courses? Prison inmates should be allowed to take college courses as education plays a vital role in rehabilitation, job opportunities, improves life skills and increases the self-esteem and confidence of inmates once released from prison. College courses would assist in the process of “proper decision making and the chance to become positive role models” (for ex-convicts and the communities of which they reside and eradicate the rate of...

Jails and Prisons Nicholas Davis CJA/204 - INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE University of Phoenix Christopher Cannon May 13, 2013 Jails and Prisons Have you ever sat back and thought about what prison or jail is like? Is it just like in the movies or do inmates really not get that much free time? What is the difference between prison and jail? When talking about different kinds of prisons and the level at which they are labeled the three that come to mind are minimum, medium, and...

 Prison Overcrowding Nicole Galarza Student DeVry University Abstract Prison recidivism continually grows in the United States, resulting in prison overcrowding. The government struggles to find ways to address the conditions in prisons, researcher have begun to look at alternatives to placing offenders in the system. These alternatives can result in lowering crime rate, recidivism and the overall prison population. The numbers of people in the United States that have spent time in...

Corruption is a common occurrence in prisons in this country and around the world. The reason for this is because prison environments provide for the combination of individuals with lost rights and individuals with full power, plus minimal monitoring. This equation produces inevitable corruption. The antidote to corruption is exposition. Corruption happens under the cloak of darkness. Once light is shed on the wrong-doing, a sort of purification process occurs and wrongs are righted. Hence,...

In this week’s lesson we have been discussing release from incarceration or otherwise known as parole. When any inmate has been given parole they have to be re- introduced to society. Some fortunately go back and adjust really well, while others not so much. Being incarcerated for years everything you once knew is not what it was when you went in. In this week’s assignment I will discuss basically what the reentry process is, how effective it is, and what is meant by program alignment....

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The Differences of Prisons and Jails Kenitra Evans CRJ303 Instructor Martin McAuliffe March 13, 2013 There are many differences between jails and prisons. They equally both house offenders but their day to day operations are very different. There are long histories about jails and prisons both and in this paper we will describe the differences of jails and prisons including how they operate and their functions. Many people hear the words prison and or jail, and they believe...

Incarceration rates rose to unprecedented levels in the history of the U.S.’s imprisonment. Therefore, concern about social control of the incarcerated, that is, prisoners’ behavior, has increased. High inmate disciplinary infractions, especially violent infractions, are a threat to the safety of prison, of correctional staff, and of other inmates. Nevertheless, the issue of discipline in prison is important from an economic perspective, because an estimated average cost per infraction at a...

Supermax Prisons and Their Adverse Effects Introduction Due to increasing crime rates and the extensive belief that rehabilitative programs for inmates do not work, a new and harsher method for prisons is being utilized. Instead of scattering the worst criminals, they are being consolidated into Supermax prisons. Supermax prisons are state of the art penitentiaries meant to hold only the worst of the worst criminals and inmates that cannot be trusted in regular prisons. There are strict...

Faced with a glaring deficit and terrifying examples of ineffective spending around the globe, lawmakers looking for cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs, lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals, which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly, the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international...