Essays on Prison System

Introduction The United States can contribute their modern-day prison system to their ancestors. It started with the English philanthropists and their philosophies of solitary confinement as a form of corrective punishment. Not a relatively new idea but it was a step in a new direction…

Introduction In Tayari Jones book An American Marriage, Roy, was wrongfully convicted of raping a woman he met after an argument with his wife (Jones). Although Roy got released from prison several years before he was supposed to be released, his life was never the…

Introduction I am lucky. I have never spent time in the back of a squad car. I have never slept overnight in a detention cell. I have never gotten my hands locked and chained behind my back. Nor have I ever seen a loved one…

Offender reintegration is an essential part of Australian correctional programs that authorities must enforce in order for prisoners to successfully enter back into communities and reduce recidivism rates after imprisonment. Offender reintegration focuses on the psychosocial transition from an offender to a law-abiding citizen and…

This paper talks about the current situation relating to the quality of life in prisons which is degraded and under par. After years of progress and development we still aren’t coming out of our adamant perception about punishment and are unwilling to accept a prisoner…

Many people think that the current prison systems in America need a lot of work in some way or another. Some people think that the prisons are in need of a reform and others think that the inmates may have it too easy. There isn’t…

African American history The idea of privilege is one of different meaning to all peoples. What is privilege to a single white male walking down the street, versus a tan Italian woman sitting on the subway at 11 o’clock at night? Privilege is a social…

The creation of the prison system in America was done to ensure the safety of its citizens. In essence prisons serve as one of many checks and balances of society. Whether proven guilty or not in a court of law, felons are housed in state…

Mental illness inside the prison system could be declared as one of the greatest plagues occuring within the Department of Justice system. With intercessions being put into place, such as mental health courts, to help with lowering the rate of recidivism within the correctional system…

Incarceration has the ability to change a person’s behaviour through a process called prisonization. Prisonization is a process whereby inmates adopt “folkways, mores, customs, and general culture of the inmate”. An inmate subculture is an informal social system which strengthens certain principles and norms. It…