Essays on Prison System

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…

Imprisonment is one of the first things that people think of as a way to win the “war on drugs”. Is this the best way to handle it though? In July of 2018, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, roughly 46% of prison inmates…

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…

INTRODUCTION We are living in the era of huge influence of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on society. The ICT is generally regarded as the super high way through which information is transmitted and shared by people all over the world. The ICT is…

The overpopulation of the prison system in the United States has become a societal issue that can be traced to harsher sentencing for nonviolent crimes. This has resulted in inmates staying in prison for longer amounts of time, which does not necessarily result in their…