Ever since the populations of prisons have gradually increased over 2 million inmates, many prisons are becoming overcrowded. This leads to inmates being forced to room with 3 other inmates in a very small cell. Also, many prisons don’t have enough beds for all of the prisoners that continue to pile into their facility. Most prison systems don’t try to get more beds for their prisoners; they feel as if the prisoners deserve to sleep on the floor. I believe that most people would consider this as torture.
Breadwinners are lost, families destroyed, more kids grow up without fathers or mothers, welfare costs increase, the entire sex ratio is thrown out of balance and prisoners face grim prospects when released. The hyper-incarceration statistics for African-American males are much worse. We incarcerate one in nine African-Americans between the ages of 20 and 34. In 2003, it was calculated that "At current levels of incarceration newborn black males in this country have a greater than a 1 in 4 chance of going to prison during their lifetimes, while Hispanic males have a 1 in 6 chance, and white males have a 1 in 23 chance of serving time." By 2007, just four years later, the U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Justice April 4, 2011 Term Paper For many years, abuse in prisons has been a serious issue and over the years, the abuse has only gotten worse. We see on the news of this happening in other countries but many Americans do not realize this is happening in our country as well, right under our noses. Some of the most unimaginable things take place in prisons not too far from where we live. Everyday, inmates undergo a variance of different forms of abuse. According to www.hrw.org, some forms of abuse are being beaten with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic devices, doused with chemical sprays, choked, and slammed face first onto concrete floors by the officers whose job it is to guard them.
What Is Going On: Minorities in Prison, Is Race Playing a Part? Ashley V. Moorman ENG 122 Instructor Spindler January 28, 2013 What Is Going On: Minorities in Prison, Is Race Playing a Part? Some have felt race definitely plays a part in some minorities in prison. It seems that this has been going on for quite some time. Since the 1980s, this has occured.
They do not understand that people with mental disorders have special needs which prisons cannot provide. In the state of Pennsylvania, the Governor thought in was necessary to close most of the treatment centers which were equipped and properly trained to handle these types of individuals. This was part of a strategy to save money by placing them in prisons. This not only causes a problem with over population, but it adds an unnecessary level of danger to prison workers. In the Lancaster County Prison, approximately 40% of the fights that break out involve inmates that suffer from some type of mental illness.
Red of course bets on Andy but to his dismay, it was another newbie whose time was short lived. The first night at Shawshank this prisoner sobs out saying he does not belong there and he would not shut up, Captain Hadley beats him to death without any repercussions. Therefore how does a prison rehabilitate prisoners if the guards that oversee them are just as much criminals as them or even worse? This is not the only unlawful killing in shawshank during Andy’s
According to official statistics, there are some significant ethnic differences in the likelihood of being involved in the criminal justice system. Black people, and to a lesser extent Asians are over represented in the sample. For example black people make up just 12.8% of the population, but 11% of the prison population and Asians make up 4.7% of the population, but 6% of the prison population. By contrast, white people are under-represented at all stages of the criminal justice process. The Ministry of Justice states that members of the black communities are seven times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched , three and a half times more likely to be arrested, and five times more like to be sent to prison.
I think that while we're hearing about how devastating the prison situation is in the US and elsewhere, when we're talking about the numbers of people incarcerated, and we're talking about the numbers of African American men incarcerated, it does not mean we should be interested LESS in women. Also we do not think we should be interested LESS, for example, because they're a small number, even though proportionately to their population they're the highest number of incarcerated people. So, I started to think about how it meant that we had also these ways of thinking proportionately about where our interests lay, and that we are missing things in that. I also started to think about the ways in which Cassandra Scott provoked me to
Introduction Giving a glaze of attention towards prison populations today in countries such as Britain and America, it is not hard to see that most prisons got racial disproportionality where most of the prisoners are not ‘white’. A question that criminologists has been pondering on for the last decade where as if the racial disproportionality in prisons has to do with errors in the criminal justice. Another question criminologist has been debating about for the last decade is if ‘blacks’ do commit more crime than whites and if they do, has that got to do with the racial disproportionality in prisons. Some researchers claim that ‘blacks’ have a lower IQ than others which leads to the disproportionality. Other claims that it has to do with
The laws because of advancing technology has caused more criminals to be brought to justice. State prisons are overcrowded because they hold the most dangerous criminals. Overcrowding of prisons posses a safety issue for inmates and correctional officers. The overcrowding of prisons does not allow proper rehabilitation of inmates so that they can become law abiding members of society. It is also a health concern for everyone in the prison because of the sewage and water system becoming