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).
359) it was assumed that the most common exclusion was re-incarceration at the time of or shortly after release. The demographics and clinical characteristics reflecting the HIV-infected incarcerated population was most of the participants were male and African-American, almost three quarters had prior prison incarcerations and over half suffer from depression. “Of the 89 subjects included in the analyses, 31 (72.1%) in the BCM and 28 (60.9%) in the SOC arms completed the week 48
Determinate sentences involve sentences that have a fixed or flat time (Jirard, 2009). Determinate sentences play a large part in the increasing number of individuals in prison, which, as you can imagine, puts more strain on prisons financially. In the past two decades, we have become increasingly “tough on crime” which has helped to decrease crime to a certain extent. According to an article in the New York Times (2008), the US has fewer than five percent of the entire world’s population, but almost twenty five percent of the world’s prisoners (Liptak & , 2008). The author of the article goes on to say that people in the US are sentenced to do time for crimes that would not produce such a sentence in other countries.
To go to a public school it’s required to have a physical every couple of years, and I wonder how many of the people detained in jail have not been to a doctor in years, and may be getting sicker and possibly spreading it to others. In another article I read called “Chronic Medical Conditions among Jail Detainees in Residential Psychiatric Treatment: A Latent Analysis” published in the Journal of Urban Health August, 2011 there are studies that show that detainees with mental illnesses have significantly higher rates of chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and infectious diseases. There is also evidence to suggest that long-term detainees are at higher risk of having mental illness, and therefore, according to this study, are at higher risk of having infectious diseases. If this is certainly the case than the importance of screening long-term detainees is crucial. (Swartz,
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) .
The results showed that there were higher rates of substance related disorders than those who had psychotic and mood disorders. Across the globe over 9 million individuals live in a prison system. Studies show that mental illness is 5-10 times more widespread among inmates than the general
Minorities in America’s Prisons Renita Redding ENG 122 Instructor: Sharon Linne November 23, 2014 Since the 18th century imprisonment has been the method of punishing crime in America. Today there are about two million people incarcerated in federal and state prison institutions in the United States (Page, Whetstone, 2014). The most alarming statistic associated with America’s prison population is the disproportionate number of minorities that are represented. According to Page and Whetstone, “the United States’ unprecedented expansion of imprisonment since the late 1970’s has disproportionately affected African Americans, intensifying inequality and transferring the way some people look at race issues”. Even though, there is an array
‘ Prisoners Reentry into Society By: Kimberly Miller Introduction to Corrections -1 There were 688,394 offenders who were released from both federal and state institutions in 2011 and according to the Bureau of Justice there were approximately 4.8 million offenders that were released to the community supervision at the end of 2011. When offenders are reentering into the community it can become a very complicated transition for the offender, the offender and victim’s families and the community in which they are reentering into. When prisoners leave prison this becomes one of the most effective time period and is often full of disappointments and often can leave the offender as if nothing can go right. Prisoners whom are reentering the community can often feel different emotions such as confusion. Once and offender opens and allows the freeness to sink in and accept it they of often start focusing on their goals and faith that they can succeed without reoffending.
Paige Hannemann Period: 3 Mrs. Sigafoos AP European History Research Report: Mentally Ill Patients Behind Bars America's combined prison and local jail population topped 2 million inmates for the first time in history on June 30, 2002; however, the crime rates for physical or violent offences were considerably lower that year. Why is that? As we look at American history we see that in 1833, mental institutions were first built because of the maltreatment of mental patients in local jails and prisons. We then find that in 1955 the number of mental institutions grew to 1/2 million, with 560,000 patients. In 1963, a month before his death, John F. Kennedy gave 150 million dollars to the community for new mental health center programs,
The Mentally ill in Prison Reports of large numbers of mentally ill people in American jails and prisons began appearing in the 1970’s. By midyear 1998 there were a quarter of a million mentally ill people incarcerated in prison or jail. I feel that putting mentally ill people in prison or jail is wrong. Why would you arrest someone who doesn’t know what they are doing is wrong? Instead of arresting them for months or years at a time I think we should just put them in a care home or put them on probation so that their officer can keep checking on them to make sure they take their medications.