YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Decarceration Proposals by Prison Activists
Essays 211 - 240
sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...
sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...
them locked up securely; however, they also note there is a need "to stick with our philosophy of humanization" (Alvarez, 2005). T...
prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...
Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...
racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...
the prison is not supposed to be a box for the miscreants to fester, but a real place for them to learn to become better people. H...
available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...
There appear to be many attempts to alleviate the problems of overcrowding, each implemented by individual states and communities,...
Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...
Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...
sex taking place-inclusive of rape-- and so, there is a greater chance of transmission. Its prevalence in prison has been supporte...
each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...
vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...
fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...
(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...
Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...
of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...
and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...
Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...
(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...
brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...
health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...
pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...
arrest in 1956 along with more than 150 other passive-resistance protestors, all of whom were charged with treason (Brink 1998). T...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...