Each prisoner was given a small piece of bread and a cup of coffee at the beginning of each day, and another cup of coffee at night. The smart ones learned to save some bread for night. It was hardly enough nutrition at all, and many died from malnutrition or starvation. They were not given adequate clothing for the climate, the living quarters were overcrowded and disease ridden, and many times they did not have the proper tools for their assigned duties. All of these things led to a high mortality rate.
When the mental health facilities were shut down, police and prisons are left to deal with the mantally ill patients. As these patients were released from the hospitals, due to their lack of mental health, many would become homeless and eventually cycle into the prison systems. Once in the prisons, these mentally ill individuals are offered much less care than what many of them need in treating their different types of disorders. Group therapy in such prisons is very informal and conducted in an uptight environment. 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.
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).
For example, here in Washington State due to the budget cut, more of the education programs have been taken out. This issue leaves inmates without anything to do and the inmate now have only minimum training working in kitchen and maintenance jobs which due to background check most inmates cannot get a job after they get out . There is minimum scholarship offered to inmates who need to pursuit their education. Also drugs education programs have been decreased because of the budget cut. Even DOSA (Drug Offender Sentencing Act) which says they get half time upon completion of drug counseling, most inmates are unable to complete.
Psychologically speaking depression can be a ramification because again the inmates are in their cells 22 hours a day. The cells are small and they are deprived of social communication. Going outside is a privilege to most. The time given to the inmates can be viewed as living under barbaric conditions even though we are speaking about criminals. Agnew posits that “deprived” communities are more likely to be populated by “strained” individuals and that these communities will suffer from more blocked opportunity structures, (Hoffman, 2003).
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.
Inmates in SHU spend 22.5 hours in isolation they are segregated from other prisoners and they get 1 hour to walk or workout in indoor yard. Some extremely dangerous inmates have turned this safe place into one of most horrifying place to be in. One of the officers called
Even leaving abuse of power aside, the principal discomfort of prison is crowding, an issue serious enough to now cause reforms in prisoners’ sentencing, and interventions in court (Bonta, et al. 350). Limited space, including noise level and the duration of exposure has been known to cause stress, anxiety, and
The Treatment of Inmates Samantha McAnally Abstract This paper will be discussing how the prison system, the guard and each other treat inmates. Through a practical view, the argument could be made that these prisoners are being treated to good and not good enough. The society can consider a comprehensible, hypothetical groundwork towards an ethical decision-making concerning the inmates. People should come to a concrete conclusion upon a course of action before making a decision on how to punish them. The Treatment of Inmates When there are millions of people incarcerated throughout the United States, the ethical treatments of prisoner’s human rights require examination.
Most of the time offender has to wait long time in jail waiting for the trial. “Excessive pretrial detention shatters individual lives, destroys families and degrades communities” (Berry, 2011:16). The people who are released from prisons are unlikely to find good job and are exposed to live in poverty. In addition, if a former inmate finds a job is very rarely because the background of a person is very important when people wants to find a good job with good wages. It’s very hard for people who is released from jail to improve in life because of the difficultness in finding a job.