Essays on Prison

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…

Introduction Approximately, five million children living in the United States has had a parent locked up in prison. Out of all the countries the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment than any other country (D.Murphey & P. Cooper, 2015). The expense to house…

Sexual abuse. Shock therapy. Behavioural modification programmes. What do these three things have in common? All were a terrifying and overlooked part of the day-to-day running of the maximum security psychiatric hospital; Broadmoor. Most people think of Broadmoor as a prison, but in reality it’s…

The aging of our inmate population within our correctional facilities in this country is becoming a national epidemic. The cost to the taxpayers to house and treat this special offender type is increasing exponentially year after year. Medical costs associated with the incarcerated elderly inmate…

When you think about prison, what are your first thoughts? Are they places of punishment, or are they places where you can help redeem yourselves of your crimes? The modern day prisons that we have today seem to mainly focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation….

Introduction A prison is a building or complex where people are kept in long-term confinement as punishment for a crime. As of October 2015, the number of prisoners in Kenya was 54,154. The number of prisoners in the 115 prison facilities is almost triple what…