Essays on Prison

Overcrowding is one of the leading problems that affect the United States’ criminal justice system. Although the overutilization of prison facilities is a challenge of endemic proportions across different parts of the planet, human rights violations related to this pattern are egregious in the United…

Prison overcrowding is rapidly becoming a controversial financial and political problem in the United States. While jail conditions have worsened considerably. The current correctional system is nevertheless struggling to deal with the troubles that the United States has experienced in the past. State and Federal…

According to The World Prison Brief Walmsley (2001) is revealing that close to over about 8.7 million people are being confined in penal facilities all over the world. Being held in correctional institutions, these law offenders are either convicted or given a sentence, or they…

Community environmental corrections is a new paradigm, supervising offenders to reintegrate back into the community and reduce recidivism. Since the turn of the millennium community corrections and punishment has transformed. In contemporary community corrections, community programs and community corrections orders are being used. This essay…

As far back as the 19th century, prison life has been around. However, back then the correctional system was not focused on the rehabilitation of its prisoners. More so, on the punishment that would be handed down to them, as they await their time to…

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…

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…

Have you ever read a story or seen a movie that gets you into thinking since it brings a powerful message? Those types of movies easily become one’s favorite since they display life lessons that we can apply to ourselves and others. Shawshank Redemption discuss…