2 ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION E.M.U. SCHOOL OF POLICE STAFF AND COMMAND Sergeant Shane Ptak Ferndale Police Department Ferndale, MI An applied research project submitted to the Department of Interdisciplinary Technology as part of the School of Police Staff and Command Program Class #16 September 19, 2003 3 ABSTRACT The Phrase “Alternatives to Incarceration” continues to attract both praise and criticisms from politicians, the public, the news media as well as criminal justice professionals. For years, the judicial system has complained about overcrowding and disparities within its jails and prisons. The push in the last few decades has been to find ways to deal with persons convicted of crimes and where to put them. Recent events in the United States have led to a number of calls for the abolition of conditional releases from prison.
So now we have people in prison for small crimes, overcrowding them and wasting taxpayer’s money. Also the focus is taking off the bigger problem. We are concerting ourselves with dealers when we should be focusing on is suppliers and drug trafficking. With a mandatory sentence lawyers lose bargaining chips for that information. The good news is that charges are finally being addressed.
The Cruel Hand In chapter 4 of her book –The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander discusses the legal and social challenges the drug felons face as they struggle to reintegrate themselves into the unwelcoming mainstream American society, after they are released from prison. She explores “the stigma of criminality” (Alexander 141) that follows these people long after they have served their prison sentence. She starts by describing how these drug offenders have often been made to plead guilty to drug charges leveled against them, in exchange for ‘lenient’ court sentences, without really knowing the underlying consequences of their guilt plea. Firstly, Michelle points out that these freed felons will not only stand disqualified from public housing, but that even private house owners are legally authorized to discriminate against them. Secondly, that these freed felons –who are disproportionately African Americans - are discriminated against when it comes to employment, making them even more miserable.
Task D In May 2011 BBC Panorama aired a program called “Undercover Care”. The program showed the unmanaged staff at Winterbourne View hospital mistreating and assaulting adults with learning disabilities and autism. The program caused up roar in society, people who watched it were left feeling angry, disgusted and shocked with how the staff had being treating service users. Winterbourne View was a hospital in south Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their health professionals and families worry. Winterbourne View hospital was put in place to help to assess and treat patients so that they could lead ordinary lives in their own homes.
This is because Steve was pointing out that if you made a noise in there or if anyone heard you crying they would immediately put all attention onto you as they would take you as a ‘whimp’. Walter writes in Steve’s own words throughout the novel as a screenplay because Steve is writing in order to get through the stress that this trial has put onto him and share his side of everything during and before prison. As well as writing as a film script in Steve’s words Walter also writes in journal entries so the audience sees Steve’s side of the story and what Steve thinks about getting trialled as an adult, how unfair the American Justice System is and seeing how Steve feels. This is
The Swedish population feels that there are those who are dangerous to society and want them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). The escapees, by the way, were soon recaptured but not before the resignation of the Prison Service director; there were also calls for the Justice Minister, Thomas Rodstroem, to resign but he remained in his position (Alvarez, 2005). He did however begin a "comprehensive review of Sweden's prison system," including plans to build a "bunker-style prison for the most violent offenders," though the idea has since been dropped (Alvarez, 2005). The escapes in 2004 were the first made "from Sweden's maximum-security prisons in a decade," and Alvarez suggests that they are due to a "change in the prison population" (Alvarez, 2005). Sweden's prisons, like those in the U.S., are filled to capacity and holding inmates who are "savvier, bolder, more organized and more violent than in the past" (Alvarez, 2005).
The Zimbardo Prison Study A person actually going insane from participating in a mock prison study! Wow, who would have thought that. In the beginning I think Zimbardo accomplished exactly what he sat out to do; He created a functional prison setting. These boys really had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. In an effort to make this experiment as real as possible, the college students were picked up by a police officer, read their rights and formally arrested, while neighbors watched in disbelief.
Criminals are sent to prison to pay for their crimes and to be rehabilitated. The reality is that prison only makes them better criminals. Many would believe that prison is a place where inmates are reformed. Unfortunately that is untrue. Across the United States penitentiaries inmates are literally forced to join prison gangs.
The Aboriginal people fought back and embattled those who had killed and robbed people from their tribes. This in fact was a memorable battle of many innocent people being putrefied. This battle was one of the previous battles and many other massacres occurred after this one. The Freemantle, Myall Creek and Gippsland massacres also took place a few days ago.The Myall Creek Massacre is another massacre which is very hard to forget, who were and were not native people comprehend the harshness and sadness which is remembered through this massacre. | Group of Warriors from the tribes west of Hermann burg, Central Australia in Myall creek massacre.The Myall creek massacre was just one of many massacres that took place right across the settlement.
My thesis is on Criminal Justice, the overcrowding in the Prisons in the United States. In the United States we have the problem where there are inmates in prison on death row ,if they would execute the inmates that is on death row we would have the room to put people in the prison for the crimes they have commit instead of letting these inmates out for dealing in drugs, selling these drugs to our children. What about the inmates that have commit sex crimes are they going to let them out for good behavior. The overcrowding in the Prison has to improve in the United States. I have worked in the Women State Prison in Kentucky for about 17 years, I have seen everything in the systems like the women have beauty salons, kitchen with 3 stove where they can choose to eat in the dorms eat steak or anything they want as long they did buy it from the canteen or go to the mess hall to eat.