Prison Essays

Critical Medical Anthropology focuses on the prison population within America’s Criminal Justice System, highlighting the urgent need for improved attention to prisoners. It applies anthropological theory and methods to study health, disease, and healing in order to address health disparities and structural violence among prisoners. The specific focus is on infectious diseases and healthcare disparities […]

Choose a societal establishment ( i.e. household, instruction, faith, prison, economic system, aggregate media ) and explicate it utilizing the three major sociological positions: Functionalist Perspective Conflict Perspective Interactionist Perspective Sociological Positions 3 Abstraction The societal establishment that I chose is prison ; I chose the prison system because I wanted to see how captives […]

The origins and character of inmate codification have not been unanimously agreed upon in the academic domain (Wellford, 1967) and are commonly interpreted in the literature using two opposing positions: the ‘deprivation’ and ‘importation’ models (Grapendaal, 1990; Gover, Mackenzie & Armstrong, 2000). The deprivation model takes a functionalist approach to the development of the inmate […]

Prison trades with captives from all sorts of backgrounds. Every captive has different jobs and there are a scope of services on offer to assist them while in prison to fix them for their eventual release. Prison is a topographic point used for parturiency of convicted felons ( Gaines, & A; Miller, 2009 ). Aside […]

Introduction Prisoner Abuse is a critical problem faced by societies worldwide. It affects numerous countries and encompasses various forms of mistreatment against incarcerated individuals. Sexual maltreatment, overpopulation, and drug abuse are prevalent forms of mistreatment in prisons. The gravity of sexual abuse is heightened by the fact that both inmates and prison staff can be […]

According to Amendment 26, Section 1 of the Constitution in the United States, individuals must be at least 21 years old to legally consume alcohol. However, at the age of 18, people are considered adults and have various rights. These include voting without age-based limitations, getting married, driving vehicles, taking out loans, paying taxes, buying […]

Bring Back Flogging This essay by Jeff Jacoby illustrates an authors use of ironic sarcasm otherwise known as satire to defend and illustrate his platform on his position. Jacoby uses in this essay verbal irony (persuasion in the form of ridicule). In the irony of this sort there is a contrast between what is said […]

Despite society’s continued dissatisfaction with efforts to tackle illegal drug smuggling, use, and distribution, there is a lack of consensus on the most effective approach. The increasing rates of drug use and associated crimes have led some Americans to view the existing drug laws as being too lenient towards offenders. Society is grappling with the […]

Electronic Monitoring Today Electronic monitoring has emerged as one of the most popular forms of community corrections in the United States today.Electronic monitoring began and/or was first used in approximately 1984. Today, approximately 12,000- 15,000 offenders or participants are being monitored on a daily basis. The electronic monitoring equipment used today allows us to determine […]

The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice have funded many studies to try to better understand the connection. One such study was done in Baltimore on heroin users. This study found high […]

Although Young was such a fantastic agriculture writer he is most known for his social and political writings. Young was not very successful with the land from the start; however, after inheriting the land around his home after the death of his mother and through a series of failed farming attempts elsewhere in England, he […]

The American criminal justice system has adopted punitive measures of varying degrees, the harshest of them being capital punishment. Over the recent decades, the judiciary has decidedly moved toward incorporating more restorative measures in its sentencing. This is not applicable across the length and breadth of the country, as the conservative South is still differentiated […]

In this paper we will discuss some descriptions of jail’s place in corrections and its role throughout history on most of these offenses come with a sentence of a year or less and anyone with over a year sentence is usually sent to a prison facility (Seiter, 2011). On the other hand, prisons have an […]

The death penalty has been used throughout history; it has evolved from being stoned to death, to being hanged and finally being injected with 3 substances that will kill the victim without pain. Many ideas have developed over the years on how to take a criminal’s life and the lethal injection seems to be the […]

“The word tattoo reportedly is derived from the Tahitian word “tatu.” (Walker 1999 -2010 p. 1). The main idea of this paper is to identify where tattoos have gone wrong through culture over the years of mankind. By justifying the background and history of tattoos with their meaning and their original culture to help identify […]

The punishment for a convicted criminal may require one or a combination of diverse aspects of consequence, including community service, compensation to the victim, probation or imprisonment. If imprisonment is imposed, the offender’s release is contingent on the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, in addition to the nature of the crime committed. In addition, the convicted […]

Reading James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” one can see the unspoken brotherly bond between the narrator and his younger brother Sonny is illustrated through the narrator’s point of view. The two brothers have not spoken in years until the narrator receives a letter from Sonny after his daughter dies. He takes this moment as an important […]

From the year 2002 to the year 2012, reports of illegal drug use and addiction to illegal drugs have risen in the Philippines, as explained by Tom Banas the Task Force Commander of the Anti-Illegal Drug and Special Operation Task Force or AIDSOFT. The Philippine government in response to these reports sanctioned the formation of […]

From the historical perspective, the reason for noncitizen detention has been supported with several notions, namely: detention secures or prevents labor relationships with immigrants, immigrants will attend hearings, and they will cooperate with authorities. However, at the same time detention puts immigrants out due process and criminal justice protections. David Cole, constitutional law expert, points […]

Unfortunately, wrongful convictions are a part of the failures of today’s judicial system. People have always been too quick to believe that the accused is guilty, even if there is no sufficient evidence to prove it without reasonable doubt. This translates to misplaced perspective of justice, and many innocent people are imprisoned for this carelessness. […]

Criminologist and politicians have debated the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation programs since the 1970’s when criminal justice scholars and policy makers throughout the United States embraced Robert Martinson’s credo of “nothing works” (Shrum, 2004). Recidivism, the rate at which released offenders return to jail or prison, has become the most accepted outcome measure in corrections. […]

The Stanford Prison Experiment, which took place more than four decades ago, demonstrates the importance of ethics in psychological research and testing. This study continues to be a topic of controversy, revealing ethical concerns surrounding the investigation of human behavior. In this paper, we will define ethics and explore the concept of risk/benefit ratio. Furthermore, […]