Michel Foucault: Discipline And Punishment

Within that statistic, most of the imprisoned are non-violent offenders. The problem starts with Arizona’s mandatory imprisonment laws. Research highlights that, “under Arizona's mandatory sentencing system, non-violent offenders make up the majority of state prisoners” (Greene). However, the mandatory sentencing does not just affect Arizona’s population. All across America, mandatory sentencing laws are forcing people to be put into prisons without a second thought.

The movie Bronson is a really good example of how prison is for some inmates. There are a lot of prisoners that feel that prison is home for them. They make a living of it and sometimes they refuse to be free and experience real life. Prison can be an escape from their problems and they find a way to work and be recognize during their time on the institution. Prison can have benefits from some prisoners, because they learn skills that can help them to find a job after they are done with their time.

Fault and redemption. What do these two words really do in our lives? Do they give us another chance or are they just concepts that we want to follow? In the world we live in, one fault can often make or break something in our lives, but when granted with redemption, we don’t always take it as seriously as needed and soon our fault becomes someone else’s pride. Sir Gawain’s faults can be a constant reminder of the mistakes we all make as humans along with the quote, “It is clear then that there can be no redemption without fault, just as one is unable to return from exile without first being sent into one.

Mr. Chiu is a dynamic character. He changes drastically throughout the course of the story. “ Comrade policeman it is your duty to keep order but you purposely tortured us common citizens. Why violate the law you are suppose to enforce?” (Ha 469)

On the site Vocativ, it says”,”Seuss said Yertle was inspired by Adolf Hitler, and an early version of the character even had a mustache. The book was controversial because of the metaphor and the belch. ””””(Brown 6), this is evidence because this book you most likely could not have guessed that it would be about the Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler because it’s a children’s book but it was hidden very well which in the book tells about in the end how one mistake taken out the king telling about history. But in all of his books there is some type of moral that could tell you about history then another message telling you not to do

All prisoners are still entitled to their basic human rights while in a supermax prison because they are all still humans and they don't go away.   They still deserve that dignity and respect the others in get, even though their rights are often abused by the officers that run these facilities on both state and federal side (Human Rights Watch, 2000).Most of the types of inmates that the supermax prisons hold are the ones that get along with the other prisoners in a general population prison and mainly because they are to violent towards all others.   The ones it house per Schmalleger and Smykla are the ones that are too dangerous or chronically violent, the ones that escape or attempt to escape, the ones that prey on weaker inmates, and the ones that try to make a constant disruption in a correctional facility (2015).   These are the inmates who will be removed from the general population and placed in these supermax prisons, which is just like living in solitary confinement for the rest of their sentence or possibly life.   The ones they do not house are all the rest of the ones that can get along with other prisoners and typically the ones that are just first time offenders for something like beating a correctional

After reading multiple works in my current prison literature class, I cannot help but to form questions and theories in regards to the literature we have read. After researching and studying the following pieces of literature: Focault’s Discipline and Punish, Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, and the Angela Davis Autobiography, I have discovered ideas and questions that go beyond the pages. These pieces of literature are not only accounts, but ideas. These ideas are the spark and evidence to social change. The spark and the evidence help create protest.

Palmiotto focuses on the uses force and the effects it can have in social, criminal, and human rights. Palmiotto is also a professor and has a PH. D in Criminal Justice in the School of Community Affairs, showing the authority in the book he has for his thoughts and viewpoints. The audience pertains to anyone as it addressed as a national issue. Many of the chapters of the author focuses on racism and profiling which Palmiotto addresses as major concern.

Francis T. Cullen Assessing the Penal Harm Movement Explain the rise of the penal harm movement. How does this relate to broader issues in corrections today? The key rationale behind corrections is to punish law breakers while also reforming offenders to be constructive in society. However, the utilization of the penal harm movement, and the unintended consequences that arose from this movement suggests otherwise.

In America, 2.3 million people are in prison. American has the highest prison population in the world. This is due to “tough on crime laws” that have been enforced since the 1960’s. Although these laws do help keep crime off the street, they have done more harm than good for our country. Mass incarceration is a major issues in America, it leads to poverty, broken families, money wasted, and many other problems.

The U.S. prison systems has evolved greatly in the pasts centuries in many ways, but the most critical part where it greatly improved was the security of the facilities, the inmate treatment, and the construction of the building of how stable it is. The first and most important is the security. A prison system has to have a strict security system because without it prisoners can do whatever they want. So, they developed a security system where there are five levels: the higher the level is the stronger it is. Not all prisons do the same security because different buildings mean different levels.

The candidate that choose to talk about is Rand Paul. While I do not agree with some of his policies. I do agree with his stance on criminal justice reform. He would try to create a judicial process for adults to seal their non-violent records. This currently prevents many people from finding employment.

Crime is often found in every society. Why? Theorist argues that: crime occurs because members of society find it hard to comply with rules of behavior or they get a self-fulfillment breaking it. Crime/deviance can be an indication that an area needs attention. Also, it can bring about solidarity or togetherness in society.

I immediately made the connection of incarceration to the idea of institutionalization, the idea of people being exploited by being reprogrammed to accept and conform to strict controls due to their environment, due to the fact that my Introduction to Legal Studies professor brought it up and it reminded me of my introduction 100-level Sociology class that I took the previous semester. Henceforth, my first approach to the project was to try and find a solution as to prevent institutionalization from even happening. However, trying to find a solution involved getting rid of areas where people had to give up control, including prisons, asylums and even the likes of some schools. Using information from the seminar alone, it was made obvious to me that in a sort of Marxism type of ideology, the country and government need the likes of prisons, mental hospitals and education-induced places for the good of the people and to benefit the economy. Going back to nonfiction book, however, I realized the solution was already found and that people were already endorsing it—rehabilitation programs to re-socialize.

Prison gangs have been and are a growing problem. Prison organizations throughout the United States have tried many different strategies to address the issue of prison gang members. One of the problems is that gang members are more of a threat to the staff and other inmates than regular inmates who are not in a gang. The prisons have problems begin able to house certain serious offenders that need to be kept separate because of the limited spacing. Gangs in the prison have a higher disruption and incident rate then non gang members.