The Reality of Prison Life Orange Is The New Black is a new hit tv series presented by Netflix. The show is about a young woman named Piper Chapmann, who has been sentenced to jail for fifteen months for being an accessory to a drug cartel with her former girlfriend, Alex Vause, who is an international drug smuggler. Ten years later, after committing the crime, Chapmann lives a normal life with her soon to be husband, Larry Smith. The series conveys Chapmann’s life in the first season, and in the
absurdities, inequities, and immoral aspects of the prison that continues to affect millions of convicts and their families. This brings me to your first question in your last paragraph. At the beginning of the semester, Professor Tapia made an incisive point: prisons (the actual caging of people) don’t rehabilitate or add benefit to prisons, it’s the programs in them that do. Which completely shifted my mind from adding resources to prisons to abolishing them outright. A BJS report from 2014 found
so even if an inmate qualifies, as deserving additional support, they often have to wait in prison until there is an opening, claims Christopher Zoukis an author of multiple books relating to the prison system as well as founder of PrisonEduation.com (Zoukis, 2017). Many prisoners with metal illness are in for minor defensives and there is simply nowhere else for them, leaving innocent, mentally ill in prison for an average of eight to nine months, waiting for transfer, according to Laura Sullivan
in a state mental facility, mentally ill patients are placed in prisons. The environmental stress of the nation’s psychiatric hospitals being shut down caused many individuals to fend for themselves. They suffered; they did not have a home to go to or someone to care for them. In the end, their mental health deteriorated, in which they were forced into the correctional system. In the video, they
position of authority to the lowest position. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) houses juveniles and adults that have been convicted to state prison and provides programs and services during their incarceration to help them successfully re-enter society. Some of the services that are provided in the prison system are: substance abuse treatment, mental health care, vocational training, education and transitional aftercare housing. CDCR has 33 adult
focus of this research is strictly based on the amounts of violence our prison systems in the United States have on a regular basis. This research is designed to look at all aspects of violence in the prison system and if it is being controlled properly. The amount of physical, emotional, and psychological damages that occurs in many of the victims of this prison violence plays a major roll in creating a heavily, violent prison environment. Other key factors that leads towards violence includes gender
Privatization of Prisons Introduction I am writing this memo in response to a request to analyze the benefits and disadvantages of privatized prison systems. With the present economic environment, it is important to explore all options that could reduce the state’s deficit. This research project will explore the cost benefits to the privatization of California’s prison system, in comparison to other cost saving options. It will use statistics from other states that use private prison systems, as
Jail and Prison One of the key cornerstones of the criminal justice system is the correctional system, specifically the correctional facilities. Prisons and jails are examples of correctional facilities that help keep the criminal justice system running smoothly and efficiently. Without these facilities, there would be no place for criminals to serve their sentences, and no one would really be safe. Although prison and jail seem to be interchangeable words, they actually mean two different types
were over 4,400 woman arrested for petty crimes. My topic is the prisons and how life was in. Life in prisons was horrible to in and they treated them bad men women and kids sleep together. I think that crime was really bad back then. Crime was really bad back then. There were over 4,400 women arrested for petty crimes. “Examples include Elizabeth Murphy”, a 19-year-old Elizabeth was sentenced to five years of hard labour in prison and seven years of police supervision for stealing an umbrella
rape in prison and how much is it going unreported. Does the public like at rape in prison as seriously as maybe we should. With the ones that are getting reported what comes from it. What happens to the inmates, guards and the victim? Male rape in prison is somehow more except and joked about, some even see it as that you had it coming to you like you deserve whatever happens to you in prison because you are in prison for a number of reasons. What kind of person is coming out of prison after