human beings is a primary component to living. Regardless of where humans are located‚ communication is required to survive. My interest in collaboration is further indulged when studying prisons. Every prison is different; the means of survival and interaction varies. A woman who has lived the experience a female prison is known as a survivor‚ and she is now an activist for women’s rights. Her name is Piper Kerman‚ and many people may know her as the individual who influenced the Netflix show “Orange
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Pros and Cons of Prison Privatization Prisons are institutions that have specifically been designed to handle the members of the society who are under conviction of different crimes. The people who reside in the prisons are referred to as inmates or prisoners and the time they spend in the prisons depends on the imprisonment period. This period is dependent of the intensity of the crime committed. Once in the prisons‚ the inmates undergo rehabilitation‚ incapacitation‚ retribution and deterrence
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Among them are reports of prisoners not receiving adequate food or medical attention‚ untrained and unprofessional staff‚ inadequate security inside and around these prisons‚ constant fights and violence within the prisons‚ and rampant drug trafficking and abuse inside the prisons themselves. According to the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee’s 2013 report of the Lake Erie Correctional: “Assaults‚ fights‚ disturbances‚ and uses of force have all increased in
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The Racial disparities in the US prison population has been a problem for a very long time despite only being brought to the attention of the people of America. Unable to help themselves‚ prisoners relied on others to get the word out. The word is that the way the prison system treats blacks and other minorities is prejudiced and unjust. We are supposed to help others so how is keeping minorities‚ who in most cases‚ have committed small crimes which pent up and give them a record. We need to look
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Prison Offenders with AIDS Kaplan College Abstract Offenders living behind the walls of prison with AIDS is like the big pink elephant in prison‚ it is colossal but conspicuously avoided. In other words the disease’s presence is apparent‚ but a great deal of ignorance is still pervasive. Offenders living with HIV are still unfairly treated‚ which they try keep their status concealed‚ and justifiably so due to the treatment of the guards or other inmates. Over 27‚000 people entered NYC prisons
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Cuban Prison Systems Cuba‚ the tiny island ninety miles south of Florida has faced severe hardship for centuries‚ despite it being a communist country and the trade embargo put in place against the United States‚ Cuba has one of the harshest prison systems in the world. According to the United Nations‚ there are over 294 prisons and correctional camps in Cuba that house over 57‚000 prisoners spread across the nearly 300 facilities (Jackson 1). These inmates range from political dissidents
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The Flaws and Effects of Prison In the book‚ A place to Stand‚ by Jimmy Santiago Baca‚ Baca writes about prison and how being incarcerated can have impact on a person and their family. With the most beautiful‚ strong and poetic language‚ Baca tells us the story of all the people who faces difficult times in order to find their place in the world. Baca always felt like he had no place to stand in society because‚ all of his life he was put down by his family and friends. From the age of five Baca
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positive outcome financial feasibility should be considering top priority. As stated by Schmitt et al. (2010)‚ “the financial costs of our corrections policies are staggering”. The following alternatives focuses on ways of reducing overcrowding in prisons system. Given the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives‚ this plan to assist policymakers and practitioners to tackle overcrowding in a systematic and affordable way. The results should help to ensure that incarceration is only used when
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close Close Security Prison In a close security prison‚ offenders housed here are an escape/flight risk‚ they have histories of assaults‚ and an offender may be held there because of other charges pending for a different law enforcement agency‚ the offenders in this prison never leave to do anything outside of the prison and they are supervised 24 hrs a day by a correctional officer (“State Prisons‚” 2013). These prisons are usually set up with single cells but have been doubled‚ they are divided
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began movements in prison in order to fight for the acknowledgment and deconstruction of the slave labor they produce. Those incarcerated in the United States do labor at no cost‚ or receive little compensation in conditions less than inhuman simply due to the fact that they are or will be convicted of crimes. Therefore‚ as Kinetik Justice said in Solidarity From Solitary: The National Prison Strike‚ “These strikes are our method for challenging mass incarceration. The prison system is a continuation
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