Analysis Of Why Prisons Don T Work By Wilbert Rideau

Ruth Karlsson is the director of Released and Restored program. Her topic was about helping the inmates in prison to become humble educated people, so they do not return to prison. Her first main point was making us college students understand the huge problem we have with the Nebraska state prisons. She first explain how many state prisons there were in Nebraska, which was ten. Then Karlsson want us to understand how many people are in prison…

In the days leading up to the crime Christopher Simmons would pressure his peers, Charlie Benjamin and John Tessmer, into assisting him in committing a crime. He wanted to burglarize a home and commit murder by tying up the victim and throwing them off of a bridge.. He told them that they could get away with it because they were all under eighteen meaning that no matter what they did they couldn’t get the death sentence. Christopher Simmons came up with the idea to break into the home of Shirley Crook, and without telling the others about it also had planned to murder her as well. The trio met up at Brian Moomey’s house, a local convicted felon who allowed teens to hang out on his property.

Advocating for the Vulnerable: Lessons from Two Powerful TED Talks Law and Society has been a very informative class and has greatly enriched my understanding of the American justice system. However, one particular section of the course stands out in my mind as the most potent example of how dysfunctional the American justice system can be. David R. Dow — Lessons from Death Row Inmates. In his Ted talk Dow argues that the death penalty system in the US is deeply flawed and that it fails to address the underlying issues that lead people to commit crimes. He suggests that we need to focus more on prevention and rehabilitation rather than punishment alone.

The prison system is able to change it just takes the government not being as stubborn. They outlaw the death penalty. If the death penalty was still used the prisons would have about ⅔ of the inmates left then what is has now. As seen here ”people talk about how the death penalty is not a deterrent. Well, we do it so infrequently.

The Stanford Prison Study Analysis One of the most well known classic psychology experiments of all time is the Stanford Prison Study. The study was chiefly conducted by Philip Zimbardo. The study is very well known because do to the outcome of the behaviors of people, the experiment was never able to be completed. The experiment began on a early August morning when a mass number of people were arrested for Armed Robbery and Burglary in Palo Alto, California (Zimbardo, 2015).

Bring back Flogging - Jacoby The writers main point in the essay is that punishment can be given in a much swifter and less expensive away, and may even have a more effective outcome. The writer notes the fact that housing an inmate can cost around 30,000 dollars a year, but within that year the inmate may only be growing more resentful than they were when they had first entered the prison. The writer also notes that we treat all crimes alike. Rather the crime be stealing or murder the sentence to jail is the same in almost every case, the exception being the length of time spent there.

The view many are accepted to use prisons to indicate that certain forms of behavior will not be tolerated, and to protect them from those who refuse to play by the rules, has become a policy position that dares not speak its name. This has been put unchallenged over and over again as a paradoxical illustration of how the size of a prison reflects the level crime, not the victimhood of society. Incarceration is an effective program in regards to the regulation of crime rates due to a portrayal of how Tyrone Hoard presented the society the insufficiency of diversion programs as followed by statistical graphs and its persistence in criminal offering. A widespread use of incarceration manages the increase of crime rates, whereas alternatives in which the government has invested in this cognitive behavioral therapy is spineless.

Sweeping changes need to be made the juvenile system. They’re too many incarcerations, Locking up the children of our future based off a minor mistakes. In the future if these problems are not fixed we will continue to have a high number of youth incarcerations, and an even higher number of future adults going to prison. This cycle needs to be broken, or a significant change needs to be made. “More surprisingly, given that prison is supposed to deter crime, going to jail also made kids more likely to offend again.

Those who find themselves sentenced to time in a penitentiary, jail, or prison are at risk of either being broken or strengthened by the time they spend behind bars. There is a great debate of whether or not the prison system in the United States is positive or negative. The following will briefly highlight the positives, negatives, and possible alternatives for our nation's prison system. First, there is a long list of negatives that the prison system in America brings. The prison system is filled with crime, hate, and negativity almost as much as the free world is.

Thesis: It is very important for the sake of Americans tax dollars that we change the way that prisons are run and increase the productivity of inmates so when they are released from jail they are ready to be a productive member in society and have the confidence to achieve new goals. Introduction: Day after day, millions of inmates sit in jail doing nothing productive with their lives. We are paying to house inmates that may not even have a good reason to be there. For example, drug offenders are being kept with murderers and other violent offenders.

As a result, many released prisoners return to prison soon after being released. According to an article by James Gilligan, a professor of psychology at New York University, ¨two-thirds of prisoners reoffend within three years of leaving prison, often with a more serious or violent attempt.¨ According to Gilligan, ¨we need to start recognizing the difference between punishment and restraint. When someone is dangerous to themselves or others, we restrain them. The punishment in prisons, however, involves inflicting pain on inmates for revenge or to ´teach them a lesson´. As a result of this, the only thing prisoners learn is to inflict pain on others because humans learn by example.¨ This makes it easy to see that punishment is not the answer.

Many people say that people who are incarcerated are untrustworthy that only want to start violence. That they are scum and that they are not going to change no matter how long they are locked up. Many people believe that prisoners are all in there for dangerous acts and that they are not innocent. But not all prisoners are not bad people and a huge majority of them are in prison serving nonviolent crimes. That when they are released from prison they want to better themselves and move on from their past mistakes.

Every year, the number of inmates’ increases across the world and crimes are spreading faster and faster worldwide. And maybe the only solution we have now is to put these criminals in prison so that they are separated from the rest of the society and thereby protect innocent people. This may be the main purpose of prison; “incapacitation”. That is as long as the criminal is in prison, he is unable to commit more crimes outside thus he is no longer a threat to society. One might say that punishment is the best for these people; but they are forgetting the fact that one day these people are going to be released and let out in the real world again and back to their crime record (at least for the majority of them) since more that 70% of prisoners

Argument against the abolishment of death penalty Over the years death penalty has been a consequence of the criminal acts around the world. It existed in various forms, depending on the cultural background of the society, and is still successfully implemented as a punitive measure in the countries of Central America, Asia and Africa. The debates around the issue between the supporters and the abolitionists continue for decades with no end in sight. In these volatile times of uncertainty and indetermination the world community is questioning whether the death penalty is a historically entrenched act of justice or an intolerable violation of human rights.

Blaine Rodriguez 12/7/2017 GEC #3 Crime and imprisonment affect our community in so many different ways it’s apparent. Statistically the United States is actually the worst when it comes to these issues. It’s up to our generation and the current workforce to help change our society for the better. Gender seems to be very controversial when it comes to crime and imprisonment.