Walnut Street Jail Janice Tighe Harrison College History of Criminal Justice Mr. Royer 10/17/11 As a Criminal Justice student it is important to know and understand some of the history of our Criminal Justice system. One aspect to know would be the history of our correctional system, in particular the Walnut Street Jail. Before the creation of the Walnut Street Jail life for prisoners was cruel and inhumane. As our text states “By the late eighteenth century, men, women, and children were till mixed together in many American jails. Before the birth of the modern penitentiary at Walnut Street (Philadelphia) in 1790, prisoners endured unimaginable squalor” (Roth, 2011, p. 86).
In these sessions the inmates are kept in chains and separated by jail cells in an open room, as opposed to a patient friendly atmosphere the psychiatric hospitals are able to provide. If the inmates in these prisons begin to display any disciplinary problems, they more often than not sent to segregation in a secluded part of the facility. Such alienation can be very detrimental in the continued treatment of their mental disorders. It is often the case where the mentally ill patients become so violent and a continued history of misconduct, to the point where the prison can no longer handle them; they will be transferred to the prison’s psychiatric hospital extension. It is in these facilities where the inmates are treated much more as patients rather than prisoners as was the case in the prisons.
Andres Salazar “Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era”(43). Only taking fifteen to twenty years for the wooden jail to become darker besides its already gloomy appearance, the prison-door never looked new. With crime being associated to bad people and hatred, the prison door sets the tone for the novel. This prison-door, appearing to hold dangerous criminals, set in Utopia, where they know that misbehavior, evil, and death are unavoidable, sets the tone of sadness filled with sin. In Hawthorne’s passage from The Scarlet Letter, the prison-door‘s contrasts and detailed description convey the tone of sadness and condemnation, along with its connection to social order which helps create the overall thematic meaning.
He was particularly appalled to discover prisoners who had been acquitted but were still confined because they couldn't pay the jailer's fees. He proposed that each prisoner should be in a separate cell with separate sections for women felons, men felons, young offenders and debtors. The prison reform charity, the Howard League for Penal Reform, takes its name from John Howard. John Howard is now widely regarded as the founding father of prison reform, having travelled extensively visiting prisons across Europe in the 1770s and 1780s. Also, the great social reformer Jonas Hanway promoted "solitude in imprisonment, with proper profitable labor and a spare diet."
SHELLEY LEE Set four years after the last hanging in Salem, Marshal Herrick is blatantly drunk and finds himself stumble into the jail cells which her guards. As the hysteria in Salem has died down the jail is empty and Herrick decides to stay the night, as there is bad weather outside. He begins to recount his experiences down at the cells and finally admits to himself the guilt he possesses for being a slave to court and for being a part of the murder of innocent victims. Herrick stumbles in with a flask in his hand, clearly drunk and disorientated, he looks around him before lighting a candle in a lantern shakily. Aye Herrick you drunken fool, you’ve gone and brought yourself down to the old jail cells.
Malcolm X, one of the most powerful leaders of black America during the 1960s. He was a street hustler convicted of robbery that made him spent seven years in prison. He became frustrated at not being to express himself in letter, and he wanted to be as knowledgeable as his fellow inmate, Bimbi who had always taken charge of any conversations, therefore he started to educate himself by copying the whole dictionary. Malcolm X learnt of people, places and events from history, especially the history of the white and the black. He wrote about how bad were the white and the way they humiliated the non-white group.
That forced a few changes in Brett’s behavior and lifestyle but in the end nothing prevailed. This next text I am about to speak about is also a very good example of institutions, where as the “prison farm” I spoke of earlier this text which is named “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” Directed by Milos Forman in 1975 is about a mental hospital but the man sent there ( Jack Nicholson ) finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the inmates themselves. Randle Patrick McMurphy ( Jack Nicholson ) thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plans are rapidly backfired when he is sent a “mental asylum”. He tries to liven the place up on his arrival by playing card games and playing basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn.
Sinead Regan: Occupational Stress and Coping among Prison Officers Occupational Stress and Coping among Irish Prison Officers: An Exploratory Examination Sinead Regan MSc 2009 Greenhouse Press 1 Sinead Regan: Occupational Stress and Coping among Prison Officers ABSTRACT Occupational Stress and Coping among Prison Officers: An Exploratory Examination Prison officers as a professional group are exposed to unique and powerful stressors. Few other employees are given the responsibility of taken charge of an unwilling and potentially violent population. This present study grew out of a perceived paucity of systematic research examining the relationships between stressors and stress related problems among prison officers in Ireland. The research was conducted to extend knowledge about prison officer perceptions of stress, consequences in terms of physical and emotional status, perceived causes of stress, and coping techniques. From self-reported data of sixty-eight prison officers drawn from a medium security committal prison for male offenders, findings of the present study indicate that according to several objective indicators, prison officers experience considerable stress on the job.
Jason Lockhart November 4, 2011 University Of Georgia Composition I-45 “My Experience In Jail” Last year around summertime was one of my biggest life changes; I was arrested and took to the downtown police station for questioning. I was under the influence at the time I was arrested and while being questioned I could see that the detectives had a mean face expression but, when I turned to look at my mother and sister’s face through the glass across the room it hurted me even more because, I could see that they were in so much pain and sadness because of the situation I had gotten myself into. The only thing that was on mind at the time was coming back home to my family but, things didn’t turned out that way at all. I refuse to cooperate with the detectives because, I wanted my lawyers present because, I know I was innocent of all charges so the detectives called for a jailer to come and escort me to a holding cell and they place me in handcuffs which was tight and cold to my wrist and flesh. The holding cell was so boring, cozy, very well lit and the bed was very uncomfortable from the one I was use to laying in at my house, which made it hard for me to go to sleep.
Donna King (Smart Justice) described her experience in jail as “Each prison sentence I went through, my crimes got bigger. I started to learn new things about crime.” While the criminal is in prison they cannot commit crimes, however, when released a large number (44% of Victorian prisoners) reoffend, are caught, and jailed again. Society needs to accept that for the vast majority of criminals, there is no magic wand that can be waved to make them see the error of their ways and lead a crime-free life. They are unable - and do not want - to hold down a regular job; they see crime as a way of life, a source of