After the academy he talks about how the first few months of policing are in field training with a training officer and they show you the ropes of policing. Here he describes how police see misery at its best. According to Moskos, walking into a “normal” home is very rare; most of the time the houses he entered were “families without heat or electricity, rooms lacking furniture filled with filth and dirty clothes, roaches and mice running rampant, jars and buckets of urine stacked in the corners, and multiple children sleeping on bare and dirty mattresses” (39). These conditions were part of the everyday life of a Baltimore Police Officer. This type of ghetto lifestyle creates a lot of tension between the Baltimore Police and the community.
Criminal offenders who are sentenced to jail usually carry a sentence of less than one year. If an offender gets a sentence for longer than a year, then they are usually sentenced to a prison. Prisons are a confinement facility that is either, military, federal, state, or privately run. Prisons are given the custodial authority over the offenders sentenced to their facility. Not only is there four different types of prisons, there are different security levels for different prison as well.
They had a room for solitary confinement and a area designated as the prison yard. The participated were randomly assigned to either a prison group or guard group. Prisoners were instructed to remain in the mock prison for 24 hours a day but guards were instructed to work 8-hour shifts then return home until their next shift. Researchers used hidden cameras and microphones to observe the behaviors of the prisoners and guards. Philip Zimbardo actually played the role of the warden and looked over the behavior inside the prison.
He was kept 23 hours in his cell every day, merely lit by a lamp. Because of which he was unable to sleep or know what the time was. He was only allowed to have one visitor once in six months and he was once not allowed to see his wife (Winnie) for two years. He was allowed to write and receive one letter every six months. The letters he received was screened by the guard, who would cut and remove the parts that were considered unsafe or effectively erasing.
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821, to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell. Because Samuel did not accept believes of the established protestant church in England, Elizabeth and her elder sisters were denied public schooling. Samuel hired private tutors and instructed the girls the same subjects as the boys and also Hannah inspired them by introducing them to music and literature. Samuel was a sugar refiner and both for financial reasons and because he wanted to help to end slavery, the family moved to America when Elizabeth was 11 years old. Her father died in 1838 and left them only 20 dollars in his account.
New Asylums Ever since the development of asylums in the U.S., the mentally ill have been housed in these hosipitals. However, due to a number of different reasons, such institutes have been closing down. The lack of these mental facilities in todays society has been a growing concern; such closures have lead to mentally unhealthy ending up in prisons instead. The documentary, New Asylums, aimed to shed some light onto the many concerns regarding this use of prisons to house mentally ill individuals. When the mental health facilities were shut down, police and prisons are left to deal with the mantally ill patients.
Was the 1981 Hunger Strike for Prisoner of War Rights or for I.R.A propaganda? Introduction In May 1972, a hunger strike commenced in Belfast Prison, which IRA prisoners ended 35 days later when British Direct-Ruler William Whitelaw gave in and granted ’special category status’, their special category status was broken into 1.The right not to have to wear prison uniform 2.The right not to have to do prison work 3.The right to have free association among ourselves 4.The right to receive a weekly parcel,a weekly visit and unlimited letters. 5.The return of all remission lost as a result of the protest. From then, until 1976, many thousands of Irish men and women served their prison sentences under this special category regime in the cages of Long Kesh, and in A-Wing of Armagh women’s prison.. Between the years 1971 and 1975 thousands of additional prisoners, interned without trial, had a similar status in Armagh, Magilligan, Belfast Prison, the prison-ship Maidstone, and Long Kesh.However "after Meryln Rees announced that internment and special category status would end on March 1,1976,he increased the period of early release for sentenced prisoners from 25 to 50 percent"(1 p89).This meant many prisoners like Bobby Sands would soon be released where they could re assume I.R.A activity.
In the bigger cells, people were shackled to an iron bar in the middle of the floor. Prisoners were usually kept only 2-3 months.The prison had many strict rules. Prisoners could not do anything without the approval of the guard.They were forbidden to talk and got very little food or sleep. THe day began at 4:30 AM every
Isolation as punishment is an issue commonly shown in OITNB. Sending inmates to SHU (Solitary Housing Unit) does not deal with the issue behind inmate’s misbehavior, but instead isolates them and ignores any issues behind these unwanted behaviors. Solitary confinement can lead to aggravation of inmates pre-existing conditions (such as mental health.) The realities of solitary confinement are shown from the perspective of three very different inmates all who do not seemingly benefit from the exposure to extreme isolation. SHU barely offers humane living conditions with small, never dark, concrete rooms consisting of only a bed and a toilet.
The visit lasted for fifteen minutes, but can be as long as two hours. During the visit we observed the conditions under which prisoners are kept, and can interview them about how they have been treated. As lay visitors we don’t have access to the interrogation room, but there is a area from where we can observe the interrogation. Lay visitors provide independent oversight of the treatment of the most