The inmates probably did not start off with self-esteem, because their society always told them they are worthless and are going to end up like the rest of the criminals. However, Released and Restored try to but that self-esteem back into the inmates by educating them and making them understand they are good and they are valuable. Karlsson made it clear to the students that we cannot judge people based on the social stereotype, because for one it takes the self-esteem away, and that all prisoners are regular looking
I learned not only the reasons that these inmates are violent but also why they are violent and that this trait is a result of attitudes and subcultures that value and support violence outside of the prisons and inside of them. Also that people who are not particularly violent when they enter prisons are almost forced to become violent in order to protect themselves from inmates who already are violent in nature. The article makes it seem like it would be very hard to be a nonviolent inmate because you would become more of a victim to violence and possible sexual violence because you do not defend yourself. I also learned that these inmates are encouraged and told that violence is the solution to others being violent by their correctional guards.
The articles, “Their Best Way to Show Loyalty,” and “A Stolen Youth,” are about people getting evacuated by the Japanese army. Both articles have different points of views. For example, “The Best Way to Show Loyalty,” is an editorial published in 1943, so the main focus of this article is about how the Japanese were evacuated from their homes to temporary houses. Their internment was given by the government, they helped protect their properties, but their food and shelter will be given to them by the Federal Government. In my opinion, the internment in this article didn’t seem that bad due to having food and shelter with good conditions, others had it worse like in “A Stolen Youth,” with not having sanitary conditions.
In 1968 Robin Woods was convicted of two counts of felony breaking and entering. He was sentenced to 16 years at Maryland Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison, for his nonviolent crimes. He recalls the atmosphere of MCI being both tense and racially charged. Amid reports of overcrowding and brutality from guards, a severe riot ensued adding an additional charge and 7 more years to Woods’ sentence. Our prison system neglects people’s mental and emotional needs, and treats them with contempt, yet expects respect and obedience in return.
The article “On Punishment and Teen Killers” written by Jennifer Jenkins is an article with very weak ethos. The author argues that teens who commit heinous crimes should receive life without the possibility of parole and that the victims rights should be considered. The author is a victim of a crime committed by a teen, her pregnant sister was brutally murdered by a teen gunman who wanted to “see what it felt like to shoot someone” (2). By bringing her sister into the paper the author lowers her credibility because she is emotionally connected to the case and has an obvious biased opinion. This leads to the readers to question her reliability on an unbiased opinion in the article.
Arriving at the connection of crime to all three of our group 's topics was fairly easy. Each member brainstormed, out loud, their thoughts on ways that plants and cars could possibly lead to juvenile incarceration, which is our third group topic, in order to reveal a general connection. Tying cars to juvenile incarceration took the least creativity, since grand theft auto, driving while intoxicated, and use of vehicles to commit crimes are all issues related to delinquency. Plants was a slightly more challenging topic to link with juvenile incarceration. In general, it was too broad of a topic.
In order to do this they need to make new centers to help prisoners inside better themselves. In Alabama prisons may soon shut down 14 of its prisons for overcrowding, neglect, and violence in the state’s correction systems. In the prison St. Clair Holman in Alabama the prison system makes prisoners act different. There is no safety, security or supervision. “We have people being killed, sexually assaulted, raped, stabbed on daily basis at St. Clair, Holman, and multiple facilities; it’s a systemwide problem,” said Charlotte Morrison, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), which represents Alabama prisoner.”
Imagine being a child imprisoned for committing a crime for which you did not understand the consequences. Alone and afraid, with only hardened criminals and psychopaths as adult role models, you live in fear. Through a vicious combination of physical, sexual, emotional, and mental abuse, there is no option but to turn back to crime as an adult, and continue the cycle. This is a daily reality for thousands of American juveniles. Yet, we continue to call it the juvenile justice system.
The experiment was scheduled to run for two weeks, but was terminated due to the emotional distress the participants were experiencing. The aim of the experiment was to ‘understand the development of norms and the effects of roles, labels and social expectations in a simulated prison environment’. Before the experiment begun the participants were tested to eliminate applicants with psychological problems, medical disabilities or a past of drug and crime misuse. Zimbardo wanted to make the experiment as realistic as possible, having the prisoners arrested in the correct way by city police and taken to the ‘Stanford County Jail’.
According to Department of corrections and rehabilitation there is approximately 2.3 million adult offenders currently detained and which consist of 316,229 prisoners which are overseen by correctional officers on an ongoing basis costing on an average of $49 per prisoner, additionally their current budget is approximately $11 billion, which is distributed between 33 state prisons, 40 camps, as well as 12 community correctional facilities. Furthermore, the male population is 93%, 7% are females, Hispanics represent 39%, 29% are African American, and 26% are Caucasian, moreover, there are 24,000 inmates currently serving life sentences and 680 on death row, as well as the 124,000 parolees of which there is a 51% return ratio for parole violations, thus resulting in prison over-crowding.
Several of the guards became very cruel, especially when they thought the cameras that were recording them were turned off. They performed blindly to their assigned role. After only six days of a planned two weeks, the experiment was shut down for fear one of the prisoners would be seriously hurt. Healthy college students are transformed into unstable, suffering prisoners and brutal prison guards by the power of the situation in which they found themselves.
The video that made me think the most, was Prison Kids: Juvenile Justice in America. They interviewed many kids, parents and the government officials who worked alongside these programs. This video was the most interesting to me because you do not hear much about kids being arrested. The video goes into something that was discussed in class several times, as well as a controversial topic in society.
After working with these men for months, you begin to look past the societal mask they are forced to wear due to their past mistakes, and begin to see them as real genuine people. [Thesis and Preview] Life after prison affects all realms of a community. Through the process of leaving prison, to jobs, and to living conditions, I hope we have a better understanding on life after incarceration from this speech.
You also see the inmates engage in taking bets and witch inmate will break down first. In the film they show how the inmates group them self’s in to gangs for protection. One gang or group in the movie is the sisters which is a group of guys
Juvenile Delinquents Knox County Career Canter (KCCC) has a special place in my heart and in my life. It is where I went to high school my junior and senior year. While I attended, it was under a different administration and I experienced the discipline first hand. While I attended, the administration was harsh and was quick to expel, thus making it difficult for students to succeed and graduate once in trouble. In 2014 Mrs. Kathy Greenich became the superannuant and brought a new way of thinking to the discsapline of the students.
