Pros And Cons Of Prisons

The scenario was also facing an overcrowding prison issue, in which led to the unsafe and unhealthy conditions of the prison facility. The state supreme court ruled the released of 5,000 inmates in order to reduce the overcrowding problem. This type of planning will required a long-range goal to evaluate whether releasing 5,000 inmates will be beneficial for the community, the inmates and the correctional facility as well.

Edwin Gutierrez Engl 1302 Professor C. Robinson 10/11/2017 Essay 1 Is what we believe only an illusion? Universally, we covet our ideologies with an intent to serve us beneficially, yet they live in a realm intangible by man. The American incarceration system is unique as it proposes peace, safety, justice and security, yet it's not executed in a good way. Today, America incarcerates a vast fraction of its population, and African Americans are seemingly the target for this strategist epidemic. African Americans are arrested at more than five times the rate of whites.

Would you want to be a prisoner in your own home? That’s exactly what’s going too happened if prisons are eliminated. According to Saul Guevara in the United States of America there have always been rules that we all have to follow. If anyone breaks the rules they will be consequences. Saul believes that if people break the law they should pay the consequences. Prisons has it pros and cons overall. Saul Guevara believes that as an alternative of spending lots of money to abolish prisons, we should spend money on improving them and finding new techniques to diminish the flaws in the prisons system so they can work properly.

For profit prisons are contracted out to the government to help hold convicted criminals. Private prisons are thought to help save money for states, it also helps with overcrowding. Since America incarcerates so many people they didn’t have space to put everyone. So, they started using private prisons. But private prisons can be more dangerous than public prisons. The conditions in private prison are not very good, and there have been many complaints about it. Some people think that inmates should not be sold for profit. The for-profit prison industry has two main corporations the Geo and the CCA.

As the number of prisoners have constantly been rising at an exceedly fast pace, several governments around the world have embraced the use of private prisons. Private prisons are confinements run by a third party, through an agreement with the government. In the United States, it is estimated that there are over 1.6 million inmates, of that there are 8% that are housed in privately-operated prisons. While the other 92% are housed in the public prison system. Private prisons have existed since the 19th century. Their use increased in the 20th century and continues to rise in some states. When a government makes an agreement with a private prison, it makes payments per prisoner or vacancy in jail on a regular basis for maintenance of the prisoners. Privatization became involved due to the fact that prisons were becoming overpopulated. Public prisons contracted the confinement and care of prisoners with other organizations. Due to the cost-effectiveness of private firms, prisons began to contract out more services, such as medical care, food service, inmate transportation, and vocational training. Over time private firms saw an opportunity for expansion and eventually took over entire prison operations. However, now their security, how they treat the inmates, and their true cost effectiveness has come into question

In the United States, private prisons benefit from mass incarceration by exploiting the system, turning human beings into profitable capital. Private prisons are a growth industry in America. With the increase of immigrant incarceration, the amount of deaths of immigrants has risen (Independant). Private prisons are more harmful than governmental ones, resulting in greater deaths of prisoners and billions of money gained by the companies running them. Private prisons should be outlawed because it doesn’t support basic human rights, and ultimately only benefits the companies who run the private businesses.

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, where he serves as editor-in-chief wrote “Harsh Sentencing, Overstuffed Prisons--it's Time for Reform”, which he said “Too many people are in prison who should not be there. How many? Most of them! It is not that they are innocent of the offenses that put them there. It is that they are in prison mainly because we have criminalized vast areas for nonviolent offenders and compounded that with a distorted sentencing system.” The federal level, nonviolent offenders account for 90% of prisoners. Federal prisons today house nearly 40% more inmates than they were designed for, most of them repeat offenders. The overcrowding of prisons encourages the prison administration to focus on harsh and inhumane means of discipline to maintain control over the large number of inmates. Prisoners in overcrowded correctional settings interact with more unfamiliar people, under close quarters that offer little or no privacy, where their basic needs are less likely to be addressed or met. Overcrowding in prisons puts inmates under painful stress and reduces the services available to them. I believe that prison overcrowding can be reduced by Proposition 47, which made California the first state to make changes to the status of certain crimes that were once a felony into misdemeanors, including drug possession charges where the drug was solely for personal use, exempting their inclusion from the three-strike law. It would also

Stemming from the same problems as cutting costs, private prisons have almost no actual incentive to help prisoners have a better chance at straight life once released. The penal system exists for two main purposes. The first and obvious being to separate everyday society from the criminal element to promote public safety and order; the second

The United States of America has an estimated population of 324,456,005, making the U.S. the third most populated country in the world. Yet, the United States has the largest criminal justice corrections system in the world. As the crime rates and social problems continue to rise, so do the incarceration rates in the already overcrowded correctional facilities. As the incarceration numbers continue to rise, so do the problems within the facilities themselves. Alternative sentencing methods are growing in popularity despite some of the pros and cons.

The United States is home to five percent of the world population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoner. There must be a change to the current prison system which is doing more harm than good in American society and must be reformed. Reasons for this claim are that American prisons are too overcrowded with inmates, which creates a dangerous and unhuman environment. The cost to run a prison has gotten too expensive for tax payer pockets, and lastly the prison system is more as a punishment instead of rehabilitation with about sixteen percent of inmates most serious offence being drug charges. Prisons fall short of reforming criminals and the government is obligated to completely reform the prison systems in the United States.

As Clear, Cole & Reisig (2013) pointed out that toward the end of 2010, United States state and government restorative offices housed more than 1.6 million prisoners. No less than seven states are right now at 25% over limit with the most noteworthy being Alabama at 196% and nearly taken after by Illinois at 144% above greatest limit. Nineteen states altogether are working above greatest limit. In 2007, California announced a highly sensitive situation with respect to stuffed penitentiaries. And since the majority of the prisons sentences are handed to what could be termed of two types of offenders which are drug offenders and the recidivists. The tendency and the ability for the jails and prisons to be over crowded are quite certain. These areas needs much attentions for rehabilitations and probationer instances to curb certain crimes that can easily affect the society and at the same time increase gangs related issues not only in the prisons, but at the same time in our communities.

In the world today, the United States has 2.2 million people in jails or prisons, which is a 500% increase over the last thirty years. This makes the United States have the highest number of people who are incarcerated in the world today. One issue with the criminal justice system is the emergence of private prisons. In 2010, one out of every thirteen prisoners was being held in privately operated prisons (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). Private Prisons are prisons that are for profit which I find to be outrageous. There are many problems behind the model of private prisons. For example, the more inmates that are housed in the private facilities the more money the corporations make, therefore, these corporations want the inmates

Administrative segregation (ADSEG), security housing unit (SHU), special housing unit, segregation housing unit, “the hole”, solitary confinement, punitive segregation, and restrictive housing are all identical in relation to corrections. As the class lectures have pointed out, top facility officials have been reported to say that they do not have a solitary confinement unit, but since there are so many different names for solitary confinement, most facilities do actually contain these specialized units for their inmates. Correctional facilities have these units for their most notorious, violent, and even mentally ill inmates to be subjected to a confined cell alone and isolated every single day. They can be put in these isolation cells for short-term periods, an hour or a day, to long-term periods, weeks to month(s). These cells are always separate from the general inmate population and they are diminutive in comparison to the other units in the facility. ADSEG units are used to punish offenders who break the rules of the facility, by being involved in something not too serious like a fight or something that is very serious like a murder of another inmate. They are also used to isolate inmates that may be targeted by other inmates; such as: inmates that are rapists, inmates that are child molesters, and even some famous or celebrity inmates.

Today, in America, some prisoners are living worse than some third world countries are for little crimes such as thief. Overcrowded prisons can literally be defined as placing more prisoners in a prison facility than the prison was built to maintain. Every prison has a recommended capacity for which they are to hold prisoners, since there is such an increase in offenders going to prison, these capacities are being ignored and the population of these prisons are significantly increased, making them overcrowded. Too many prisoners and not enough room. This country needs to spend more money to build new prisons. New prisons cost too much to build. There are more prisoners than the guards can control safely. Because of overcrowding some state prisons are sends their inmates down to local prisons. Some prison inmates are sleeping in hallways, storage rooms and even lavatories. Due to overcrowding some prisons are producing conditions so unhealthy it is against the constitution. Because the new prisons won’t be built for a while some prisons are doing the only thing they can, freeing inmates early. Another reason for overcrowding is that more people are going to jail for smaller, less offensive crimes. Because the number of people in prison, the educational programs are limited. Before the inmate was placed near his or her program but now they are placed where ever there is a bed. Some prisons are placing inmate wherever there can. Some prisoners need special education that is not

Incarceration affects everyone. The US is known to have one of the highest incarceration rates. It's to a point where every single American has a family member in jail or prison. And based on the way our jail system works, the impacts it leaves on prisoners, loved ones, and society aren't positive. Jail is used as a punishment, rather than a way to help inmates better and prevent future crimes. They leave psychological impacts, social impacts, and economic impacts on all of us. Incarceration in the United States has various controversies, but it is discernable that it is unjust and unethical because of the negative impacts it leaves and must be addressed by more effective reform systems.