Social Structure Theory "Pelican Bay Prison" Social Structure Theory "Pelican Bay Prison" Pelican Bay Prison Video Background Pelican Bay Prison houses the most violent gang members in northern California. The facility was built in 1989 to control gang activity but has proven to be gang leaders “command center.” The prison is split up into two facilities. On one side is the security housing unit for gang leaders where they usually in individual cell for 22 hours a day with only one and half hours for showers and recreation. The second facility is called the “mainland.” The mainland houses about 2000 prisoners where they only are together in the recreation yard. The prisoners are controlling outside illegal drug trades, gang activities,
Secondly overcrowded prisons have an impact on rehabilitation programmes which potentially could be a reason for the high rate of reoffending in the UK. Finally the essay will discuss the crisis of the whole criminal justice system as the high volume of prisoners could be an indication of a wider crisis in The Criminal Justice System in England and Wales. At present it is estimated that crime and criminality costs UK society approximately £35 billion per year and currently the government spends approximately half of it on police services 2009/10 and fifth on courts dealing with the issue, of this money only £4.6 billion is spent on prisons (Ministry Of Justice, 2010). As the prison population is rise one of the main reasons for the crisis is the lack of availability of space. It has been argued that the penal system in England and Wales needs to become less punitive, more tolerant and successful (Scott , 2008) .
Attica Prison Riot The maximum security prison, Attica Correctional facility, is located in a small town in between Buffalo and Rochester in New York. Attica was surrounded by a 30-foot wall, 2 feet thick, with fourteen gun towers Prisoners spent fourteen to sixteen hours a day in their cells, their mail was read, their reading material restricted, their visits from families conducted through a mesh screen, their medical care disgraceful, their parole system inequitable, racism everywhere. It all started on September 9th 1971 when over thirteen hundred prisoners took over the prison, holding forty guards hostage. Prisoners rebelled for many various reasons. Some of the different reasons that the prisoners went crazy were because living and sleeping conditions became intolerable, social and cultural movements outside prisons encouraged the rebelling.
Fairy Bagga Prof. Langston Cor 201 Pelican Bay Prison I watched an episode which featured Pelican Bay correctional facility in California . Pelican Bay is a high security prison it houses California ’s most dangerous criminals. The show was sad and interesting at the same time. The prison is split in two facilities one is for general inmates and the other is security housing unit for dangerous criminals. 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.
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons. It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more abundant food. During the 14 months it existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to the elements. The prison pen was surrounded by a stockade of hewed pine logs that varied in height from 15 to 17 feet.
Juveniles and Social Justice Linda Buch Ashford University CRJ 422 Instructor J. Kerr March 3, 2014 Juveniles and Social Justice Drug use has been a major concern in American society for as long as our country has existed and is thought to be what has led to the many unfolding issues of the now overcrowded prison population in America. In 1980, there were “41,000 people in jails and prisons for drug offences, but by 2012 the number had risen to 507,000” (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2013). Why the rise in prison population? President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs", a war that thus far has cost roughly a trillion dollars and has engendered little to no effect on the supply of or demand for drugs in the Cumulated
State and Federal Prison Systems Paper Kevin Roisten Jerry Shoate CJS/230 State and federal prison systems are similar yet different in many ways. An example of a state prison system would be Red Onion State Prison (ROSP). Red Onion State Prison is a maximum security prison located in Wise County, Virginia and is operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC). ROSP hold around 800 felons and is known for having the worst inmates. They classify inmates based on several security levels such as security level –S with suitable isolation qualifiers.
Students were randomly assigned to be either guards or prisoners within a mock prison that had been constructed in the Stanford Psychology Department. In contrast to Milgram's studies, the objective was to observe the interaction within and between the two groups in the absence of an obviously malevolent authority. Here, again, the results proved shocking. Such was the abuse meted out to the prisoners by the guards that the study had to be terminated after just 6 days. Zimbardo's conclusion from this was even more alarming than Milgram's.
36 states have higher incarceration rates than Cuba, the country with the world's second highest prison rate. Looked at in terms of actual inmate numbers, this means that the number of people behind bars in most US states is on par with the prison populations of entire nations, like Venezuela and Egypt. https://news.vice.com/article/the-mass-incarceration-problem-in-america Funding of American prisons is another big problem. Since population of the prisons in our country extremely grows, the government began to spend more money on prison system. Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60.3 billion in budget expenditures, and it continues to grow.
In fact the U.S.’s rate of incarceration is 455 people per every 100,000 people (Smolowe, 1994). To put that in perspective, it is the highest rate of incarceration compared to any other country in the world. Even South Africa, our close second, only imprisons 311 people per ever 100,000 (Smolowe, 1994). Due to the harsh punishment of imprisonment for even the most minor of crimes, the United States has been facing a difficult issue of overcrowding in our prisons. Overcrowding in prisons is linked to several different causes, but the overall ignition of the overcrowding links specifically to the “War on Drugs” that began in the 1970’s (“What Causes Overcrowding,” 2011).