Before the birth of the modern penitentiary at Walnut Street (Philadelphia) in 1790, prisoners endured unimaginable squalor” (Roth, 2011, p. 86). With the implementation of the new correctional system many changes took place including the way the prisoners were housed, treated, and the way they spent their days. As we have learned the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia is considered the birthplace of the American penitentiary. As the article Walnut Street Prison states most prisons were typically built in a U shape with large rooms. The original role for prisons was just to hold criminals and no regard was given for an inmate’s well-being.
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.
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.
* Lost terriorty in Poland & Western Russia – PG were blamed for losses just like the Tsar was when took charge. * War made finical problems – Inflation still a problem and food shortages were high. * Russia expected these things to be stored out – PG short-lived because they were full of empty promises. Promised land reform to the peasants ( made up a large amount of the population , Bolshevik priority was to keep them on their side) no action was taken * Couldn’t guarantee food supplies as because soviet controlled the railways. * Political reform also promised political reform in an attempt to stop the revolutionaries but no action was taken.
He was quick to suppress any revolts and his punishments were almost always harsh to show that he was not to be betrayed. His sentences for those who betrayed him in the Streltsy Rebellion were brutal. Peter sentenced thousands for execution and used torture as a way of inflicting pain on those who had dishonored him, not only as a means to acquire a confession. His cruel ways were also shown when he brought his own sister Sophia under questioning and confined her permanently to a convent, held under watch of a hundred guards and allowed no visitors. [4] Peter's frequent travels left Russia unmanned, often for months at a time.
The reason for this was that England was overpopulated both with homeless or extremely poor people and their prisons were too working over their capacity. In America they found an opportunity to start over and redeem themselves. In England there was only one religion, the English religion, if someone were not to follow it they would surely be prosecuted. Because of this a great deal of people wanted to escape the religious oppression they faced in England and went to America where they could “do more service to the Lord”. At the time people were also discontent with the political system instated in England, this being a Unitary Parliamentary Monarchy.
HELLHOLE Journalist and author Atul Gawande in his article “Hellhole.” He wrote the United States is holding thousands of inmates in long term solitary confinement, which he states is “torture.” Because of their environment, and the length of time being in isolation, some of which became mentally ill. In fact he states, “We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.” Gawande also states, “The main argument for using long-term isolation in prisons is to provide discipline and prevent violence,” but study done in 2003 by analysis
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
When someone has been in prison for so long and they are not properly rehabilitated, they go back to prison because it is how they know life to be, like it is there home. the combination of repeat offenders and new offenders leave the prisons overcrowded and dangerous. Prison is suppose to be a form of punishment and rehabilitation, not a way of life that is welcome. These inmates are seeing it as a way of life because it is so overcrowded, they are not taught any
Indeed, the executions in Kilmainham made them react because of their barbarity: one of the leaders, who was hurt to the leg, could not get up, so the people who ran the jail, who still wanted to execute him, tied him up to a chair, and shot him that way. The barbarity of that execution made Irish People react. The jail, on top of that, made the prisoners live in terrible conditions : there were not enough cells for every prisoner, so they had to put many people in the same room, women, men and children together : they were also treated the same way. There were a lot of children in that jail, but they had to do everything that an adult would do, and if they would disobey, they would receive the same treatment as adults: the prisoners were beaten with a whip, and vinegar was put on their wounds afterwards. A week later, when the wounds began to heal, the guards would beat them over.