Adjustment Case Study Teresa Hayes Strayer University PSY 100 Melissa Marshall March 1, 2015 The first story I chose was called “You Have the Strength Inside Yourself”, this was about a teen that had no father figure and had just his mother. He had made some bad choices in life and was in a lot of trouble. He was in and out of juvenile detentions as a kid and now him being an 18 year old he now sits down with the President of United States and tells the President about My Brother’s Keeper, a program that has helped him make the adjustment that his life needed. The second story I have chosen was called “The Picture of Unconditional Love.” It was about a teen that was a college student that got into a car with a drunk driver and
Not the Stereotypical COA Review of: | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing By: Ted Conover | Curtis Robinson CJ 3312 Prisons In America April 4, 2013 | When you think of a correctional officer, the first thing that comes to mind are movies like The Shawshank Redemption or The Green Mile where the guards are portrayed as sadistic people who pleasure at the pain and angst of the prisoners they guard. If that portrayal is all that you have seen, then what else do you have to go by, right? Well in Ted Conover’s book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, he gives another view of correction officers, the real one. Conover attempted to shadow a “newjack” initially to write his book but was denied by New York’s department of corrections. So he applied for the job himself and three years later got the call to start boot camp like training to become a newjack himself.
In the next few chapters of Going Up the River, Hallinan talks about family visitation programs, profits made by the prisons, and the ongoing competition between huge corporations in the prison marketplace. The first story that struck me was that of Grady Mitchell, an inmate serving life without parole at Washington State Reformatory. Hallinan speaks to Grady about his visitations with his family at the prison. Grady gets to spend two weekends a month with his wife and children and tells of how little things like helping his son make flash cards for a school report are the things that mean the most to him. Grady holds a steady job making jackets and other garments for the Eddie Bauer company, and states that he earned approximately $5,000
James Brown clearly didn’t know of the bright future that was to come. At the age of 16, James was convicted of armed robbery and spent three years in a juvenile detention facility (NME). With the help of Bobby Byrd, a friend of their church, he was able to get bailed out of jail (Peneny). Bobby Byrd became James’s right-hand man for years. At this time, James started maturing and realizing right from
Together these factors have dramatically altered the nature of day-today prison life and inmate culture. Today’s prison life is much better than past times. I think it’s barbaric that prisons used to torture their prisoners, and they had no say in anything. Although today’s prisoners still don’t have much of a say in what occurs inside prison, they know they won’t get tortured like prisoners in the past. I’ve always heard that during the Industrial Revolution, many prisoners were used as free labor, but I never realized how much money the prisons actually made from this kind of labor.
The young man was incarcerated at the time and was ready to be released on terms of probation for domestic violence. The young man was under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he committed the offense and did not remember what had happened, however, after a year in a county jail was very remorseful for what had happened. He has two young children and said that he wishes nothing more than to get back to raising them. The judge gave a speech to the man and to the people in the room before he delivered his holding. “If you are at home with your children, but you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you are not truly at home.
Yes, this would cause a serious impact on any families. The impact with me was I never though it would happen to me. I had to learned and read about this and went to program to get myself a better mind frame of drugs and how to cope with my husband. I try to put him in rehab and the three weeks my husband it wasn't enough. I realized that individual needs to want to help themselves.
Marc Peterson Mark Peterson has recently been incarcerated with the Department of Correction and is serving a 4-5 year sentence at MCI-Shirley for assault and battery. Inmate Peterson is a clean cut, well-spoken, 20 year old white male, who has never served time in a prison or county jail. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old, which was around the time he started having run-ins with the law. He admitted that he never graduated from high school, and he has had a serious drinking problem in previous two years. Although Inmate Peterson has a serious prison sentence, it doesn’t necessarily mean he has to be a criminal for the rest of his life.
This sounds eerily similar to the kind of treatment prisoners seem to receive in incarceration. There’s no rehabilitation period, no attempt to aid in the recovery of their mental health. Something is wrong with these people on a cognitive level. They don’t think as normal people do. The state should be funding associations who will fix these people, so on their release day they won’t just continue on the road which led them to prison in the first
Corrections Trend Evaluation Angela Masters CJA/394 August 5, 2012 Hollis Severns Corrections Trend Evaluation In the past most have watched the correctional system in the United States go from one extreme to another. In the beginning, the only concern was putting prisoners in prison and leaving them there. In present time our goal is more emphasized towards rehabilitating and treating prisoners. Issues such as funding and crime rates play a critical role in the corrections department. During the “lock them up” theory, emphasis was placed on longer sentences, fewer paroles, higher levels of security, and no focus was placed on rehabilitation programs.