and the prison system. When the criminal justice system sentences a person, in most cases thinking of the family
1980’s the number of females in prison is five times higher, and that for men has doubled (Rathbone, 2005, p.23). In “A World Apart”, Crisitina Rathbone tells a riveting story of what it is like as a female prisoner at MCI- Framingham. Rathbone puts a face to the statistics that are shown constantly in the media and in part one she examines some of the differences in male and female prisons and the consequences of using opposite sex guards in gender specific prisons. The main differences between male
of time. The United States have many types of prisons. Some include juvenile prison, some are prisons with minimum security and some with high security. They have psychiatric prisons where people with mental problems are held. They also have prisons for all-male inmates and all-female inmates. In this essay I’m going to talk about the similarities of an all-male prison and an all-female prisons. The first similarity about both male and female prisons are that they have corrupted correctional Officers
found guilty of a crime punishable by sanctions of the United States government. These imprisoned people are then stripped of their rights and caged like animals, for an amount of time dictated by the United States government, in order to gain back their freedom. This dehumanizing process becomes worse when the gender of the offender is female due to a lack of rights for women, especially while in prison. A lack of rights is present because female incarceration is a fairly new concept with little awareness
Within American prisons and jails it has become extremely common to locate an elevated number of individuals suffering from a mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, or manic depression. “These [mental illnesses] can profoundly disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, moods, ability to relate to others and capacity for coping with the demands of life” (Lambert, n.d.) influencing the individual’s behaviors prior to being incarcerated and then the individual’s behavior within
In the last few decades, the prison population has undergone a massive expansion. The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons and jails — a 500% increase over the last forty years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. There is increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety or lowering the crime rate. The proportion
Mentally-ill Prisoners Kyle Sloan Indiana University East Imagine if you were in prison with a mental illness. The illness does not allow you to think rationally, and you are not receiving the proper treatment. The guards do not know what to do with you, and when they try to help, they only make things worse. People are constantly calling you stupid, and they try to hurt you every chance they get. Guards use force, pepper spray, and isolation to control your behavior. You feel alone
author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, spoke at Indiana University about how her time incarcerated has led her to a life as an activist for women’s prisons. In 1998, Kerman was charged with drug smuggling and money laundering for a crime she had committed years earlier with ex-girlfriend Nora Jansen. She plead guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 15 months in prison starting on Feb. 4, 2004. Kerman’s 15 months in prison were so eye-opening and life-changing that she decided
Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. Racial Profiling has been around way longer than most people think. Racial profiling has a large effect on more minorities than just blacks, Even though African Americans are greatly affected historical events in history have caused others to be impacted by racial profiling. Muslims are also greatly affected by racial profiling since 9/11 , it takes a toll on more than just the person but their families as well. Although many people think
In the essay, “Why Prisons Don’t Work,” Wilbert Rideau, an African American man who was convicted of murder at the tender age of nineteen. Rideau states that true reasoning for imprisonment has changed. By trimming down the lock up to a reasonable amount of years, making helpful programs, and not executing the true meaning of prison will begin to hs The state of Louisiana boasts one of the most lockup rates in the country. Prison isn't meant to see how many prisoners you can lock up and execute,