Essays on Prison System

The prison system fails to achieve the core purposes of sentencing and punishment as it focuses solely on the punishment of offenders and not their rehabilitation and the recovery of victims. As a result, alternative options which attain all the core purposes holistically are better…

Introduction We all know that ‘a coin has two sides’ and ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, similarly, in every circumstances which are related to any of the illegal offenses are described in two different categories of crimes: capital punishment and life imprisonment. This has…

Before going into the details of Death Penalty, one must know what it actually means and the procedures in which States carries out those penalties i.e. Executions, Firing, and Beheading etc. It solely depends on the State where crime is very high and would I…

Bennett Miller’s take of Capote illustrates the intricate presentation of the death penalty in America’s media, legislation, and pop culture. Following the complex account of Perry Smith’s conviction, Miller conveys an excellent example of how the appellate process can extend over numerous years as murder…

Prisons provide circumstances that are formulas for aggressive behavior. The circumstances can be overcrowding, inadequate training of the staff, extreme solitary confinement, mentally ill patients being mistreated, rules that cause family connections to deteriorate, a culture of bad behavior between workers and prisoners, and wardens…

Violence in prisons has been there for a long period of time. More efforts have been put in place to remedy the situation but a lot still needs to be done as the problem still persists. Most cases have been reported regarding poor prison management…

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…