Per Reporter: The children's mother (Robin) was arrested on 1-6-18 for trying to break in her mother's (Ruby) home. Robin is in Lee County Jail. Robin was choking Ruby. Robin has never acted like this before.…
Private prisons lobby for harsh criminal laws to increase profit at the cost of inmates’ wellbeing. In 1998 election cycle, private prisons contributed $540,000 to 361 politicians (Anderson, 2009). Bribes were also used as method to encourage private prisons. In 2009, two Pennsylvania judges received $2.6 million to oppose alternative and lenient sentences for juveniles (Anderson, 2009) Incarceration negatively affects recidivism rates (Anderson, 2009).…
The birdcage as we call it is made up of many wires; it is those wires that are a metaphor representing each of the ways that African Americans today are oppressed by the War on Drugs. Alexander makes many arguments throughout her book that support the previous statement. One of the arguments that she makes is that the criminal justice system exercises a new method of racial control by using the War on Drugs to target black men. She supports this argument by mentioning how the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 involved more serious punishments for those who sell crack cocaine compared to powder. Crack was more associated with blacks and powder more connected to rich white people.…
Haney 2006, found that overcrowding results in correctional administrators implementing policies and procedures that may enable instead of relieving problems that may occur within a prison environment. Unfortunately this trend is evident between mentally ill offenders, because they often face the difficult task of adjusting and conforming to correctional policies. Furthermore, when a prison is also facing overcrowding it can intensify these problems. Thus, considering that mentally disabled inmates tend to become irate and violent in overcrowded prisons, it has become routine to place these individuals in solitary confinement to separate them from others within the facility (Ball, 2014). But while the Supreme Court condemns long term solitary…
This model of mass incarceration has become too trendy, especially for the state of California. In the past decade the state of California has spent more money on building prisons than it spent for school and university funding. We should rely on alternatives modes that prove more effective in deterring crime. Introducing more effective modes of rehabilitation and possibly excarceration altogether serves as a much better strategy. Amongst many others, some of these goals include the following: Reentry programs are designed to assist prisoners that are about to be released with a successful transition to their community.…
With prisoners having a better education they would be more qualified for more jobs than they would have been before prison, depending upon the circumstances. This having an effect will show in long-term studies to prove that ex-cons will have a higher chance in the real world receiving jobs. Without the inmates receiving the education they deserve, they wont be able to learn anything and will have chance in the real world when they get out. When these programs were still active, inmates actually learned, and got legitimate degrees that will help them in the…
The first suggestion focuses on rehabilitation, “Advocates of this approach argue that research has demonstrated that rehabilitation programs can reduce recidivism rates by 20 percent or more” (Clear 161). Twenty percent is a big number. With twenty percent of the released population not coming back to prison, the prison system would most likely begin to decline, slowly, every single year. McBride 3 This would dismantle a good portion of the punishment imperative being recidivism rates would decline dramatically.…
Mass incarceration is a social problem that is of concern for me. During my time as Nowata Police Officer, I interacted with individuals that were substance abusers, alcoholics, and the mentally ill. These individuals needed help that correctional facilities were not equipped to give. Rehab facilities and inpatient mental housing are were these individuals will receive the most help. Also crime rates would see a reduction due to the fact that the underlining issue which caused the breaking of a law/s would be dealt with.…
There are prisoners who are justly in prison but do not belong there. Just like there is prisoners that are justly in prison and do belong there. Therefore, providing an alternative to prison for those non- violent offenders could diminish the high incarceration rates and help rehabilitate the more serious offenders. An alternation to prison would be placing low level offenders into intensive community supervision where probation officers have less cases and are able to supervise offenders more closely. For some offenders, daily reporting can keep them on stricter path and reduce the chances of them of re-offending.…
Module 9 Reading Response Introduction and Questions due November 14, Midnight (4 points) From the Lecture: 1. What is the Prison Industrial Complex and how does it generate profit? Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is private industry that run prisons by using a business model. PIC’s main goal is to generate as much profit as possible.…
This would be a helpful way to change people 's minds and have the idea of harsh prison be less common and more of rehabilitation centers. The only downside to this is that this takes time but if we do nothing then the incarceration policies could get even…
To say that this is just a problem is a half sited understatement, but to realize the controversy that mass incarceration has caused around the globe is overwhelming. Mass incarceration can be defined as a large percentage of individuals who are imprisoned. Mass incarceration has taken its cynical toll on the U.S ever since the late 1970s, however having more negative effects on the community than good the incarceration rate has quadrupled since then, making the U.S have the highest incarceration rate in the world. With no programs to help prepare and assist former convicts transition back into the social system, these individuals are two out of three times more likely to be re-incarcerated. In this essay, I will use TRACE analysis to analyze…
Tabitha Jackson SPC 3513 Dr. Lindsay December 2, 2015 Our Prison Population The United States has more citizens incarcerated than any other country in the world (ACLU). According to the American Civil Liberties Union, between 1978 and 2014, the prison population grew over 400% (ACLU). This number means that one in 110 people in the United States are incarcerated in our prisons or local jails (ACLU). An even more staggering number, one in 35 people in the United States is under some type of correctional control, from jail, parole, or probation (ACLU).…
The sole purpose of prison is to punish criminals for crimes they have committed, protect citizens from crime, and rehabilitate those individuals to be honest, law-abiding citizens once they are released back into the public. Wilbert Rideau, author of “Why Prisons Don’t Work”, was in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and has first-hand experience with how the prison system works. Prison is the punishment, but the punishments within the prison are inhumane and ineffective. High re-offense rates show that the public is not being protected from criminals; nor, are they rehabilitating those individuals to be productive citizens. Prisons are harming the individuals inside of them more than helping, prisons do not work.…
Prison Overcrowding Name: Sepehr Sadrameli Instructor: Dr.Dionne Peniston Course: Courts Systems & Practices Fall 2016 Identification of the problem Prison overcrowding is a common problem in different countries throughout the world including the United States. It refers to a phenomenon that occurs when demand for prison spaces in a particular jurisdiction exceeds the capacity of the institutions (Hough, Allen & Solomon, 2008). Prison overcrowding occurs when courts in a country when the rate of incarceration exceeds the rate at which the justice system releases prisoners, or the prisoners die thus freeing up space for new entrants.…