about people being locked up or going to prison; in today’s society it seems to be just another place any ordinary person will go. Sadly, this has become the norm in our criminal justice system. If you are caught with drugs you will be sent to jail instead of a rehabilitation center. Or maybe you are a more severe case such as a murder, unfortunately these offenders are not properly evaluated by the psychiatric systems and these criminals will be taken to prison as well. Hasn’t our criminal justice
Cole Vickery COM 114 Section 749 Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that placing those addicted to drugs in mental hospitals rather than prisons. Thesis Statement: Locking up those who abuse drugs instead of treating their illness in a hospital is ignoring the problem and putting their health at risk. INTRODUCTION: I. Attention Getter: According to a recent article released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 48.8% of inmates are convicted for drug abuse. The number of people convicted
crime but there a lot of pros and cons to the program. Intermediate sanctions has two goals which are to reduce the cost of prisons and to provide a more affective form of probation. The purpose of intermediate sanctions so to help violent and repeat offenders to try reducing crimes. There are many programs that are
Without a doubt, drug addiction is a major problem in the United States. When someone is caught with drugs in their position in the U.S. they are punished by getting sent to prison for several years. Drug addicts are punished and made to suffer. This is done to hopefully serve as an incentive for them to stop using. Johann Hari suggests that perhaps our country’s approach to dealing and treating drug addicts is really only hindering them, instead of helping. I will discuss my thoughts about decriminalizing
is a common misconception of the term gangs. Prison gangs are a type of gang that affects lives of prisoners every day. There are said to be a few positives with prison gangs, but are those positives really something to be positive about? Gangs have been around for been in America for quite sometime. Different types of street gangs are sometimes taught in various history classes except for prison gangs. America prison gangs have been in the prisons since the 1950 (Mizzi, 2015).
controversial themes that effect a lot of people in our society, but many wouldn’t dare use a big platform like theater to express how they feel about it. Kia Corthron uses her plays to cover issues, some of them are things like police brutality and the prison systems. The power of using the skill to express a social matter through acting allows her to make bold attempts to reach her audience through her work. Corthron’s true intention when writing her plays are to make social problems known to others through
they just send anybody that might have different beliefs, values and they really like to lock up people that have smoked pot. Now it has just became an easy fix for people to send other people with mental disabilities or that really need help to jail/prison without fixing the initial problem. Most criminals committing crimes just need rehab, from a life or life style of drugs, bad family values (which can cloud their own way of thinking) and abuse. A lot of people also will turn to crime because they
The prison boom of the past three decades has caused prison populations to skyrocket. One statistic wrote there more prisons built in during this time than schools. Each year thousands of people are incarcerated for drug convictions receiving outrageous sentences. Many of these inmates will be stuck in a perpetual cycle because of the major issues concerning how this war is being waged. With the alarming growth rate of US prison, many inmates will be unable to receive the treatment necessary
been down this road, spending time in prison in Indiana related to his gambling addiction, which he claimed to overcome. But he continue to struggle , by his own admission, and his stumble included testing positive for cocaine use while on house arrest following his guilty plea in the ticket case. Schlichter's original plea deal last year in federal court called for him to serve eight year in prison, to run at the same time as a 10-year state prison sentence on related charges. The new
Sexual assault in prison occurs every day and sometimes people or the guards are unaware of the actions. The prison inmates commit these crimes and some without caring if they contract an infection in the act of doing so. I feel that this is very important especially to gain knowledge for anyone coming into the prison to know their rights to know what goes on in the prison. Being sexual assaulted can really impact an individual life and cause them to be mental. A lot of the prison inmates try to gain