Paranormal activity has always been a questionable topic across all cultures, however, it seems as if one location has stumped skeptics. Located in Louisville, Kentucky is the mysterious Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Briana 1). The land was purchased in 1883 by Major Thomas H. Hays (Briana 1). Waverly Hills Sanatorium is indefinitely one of the most haunted locations on Earth.…
Enfield is a small inner west Sydney suburb that is 13 kilometres from the CBD. The most popular amenities include the Olympic-sized pool, Henley Park, and the harmonious lifestyle the locals enjoy. Liverpool Road is lined with small, locally owned businesses, shops, and eateries for the residents here. If they want more than what is provided in Enfield, they are a short walk to Burwood, Ashfield, or Strathfield, where there is more than enough shopping, dining, and entertainment to engage them. Enfield was named after the London, Englad suburb of Enfield Town. Visitors enjoy the historic buildings and rich culture Enfield offers as do the locals.…
Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict who served time in nine federal prisons before earning his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison era began in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illinois, where the first “control units” were built by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Marion Experiment, written from a convict criminology perspective, offers an introduction to long-term solitary confinement and supermax prisons, followed by a series of first-person accounts by prisoners—some of whom are scholars—previously or currently incarcerated in high-security facilities, including some of the roughest prisons in the western world. According to Richards, the act of holding children in solitary confinement has been a fundamental component in the process…
Howardsville, a quaint little city, nestled in the foothills of the Putney Mountains located forty miles southwest of Charleston, West Virginia, had its own dark history. Having lived his entire life in the two–story house on the outskirts of town, Ernest Cassidy was familiar with the myths, legends, and lies about his city and was always quick to defend it. The mysteries began years earlier when Dr. Ronald Hackney; a surgeon at General Hospital in Charleston came up missing. One morning, he didn’t arrive at the office, his nurse called the home. Up on finding his car in the garage and his keys in the garden his wife, Lily called the police. The volunteer rescue squad searched for several days and found no trace. It was as though he had disappeared.…
Entering the prison, one would never know of the tales that lie within its walls without extensive research beforehand. From supermax to medium security, and lockdowns to prison camps, Marion Penitentiary has experienced it all. Each year that it’s offered, I will continue to go back and learn as much as I can before graduating and eventually applying the knowledge to my career. What is seen as an old building holding bad people to others, is a museum comprising of individuals that are building character to be given a second chance in the future, to me. Marion Penitentiary is a historical facility that has expanded structural and programming wise to accommodate its prisoners and continues to reshape America’s…
Penitence over Punishment: Reforming America’s Prisons From the New Deal to the Great Society, America has developed many government programs meant to benefit the American people. Dorothea Dix, one of the first famous prison reformers from America's’ Antebellum period from 1840-1860, saw that there were many problems in America’s prison system that she had to stand up for. Before her work, prison was viewed purely as a source of punishment and showed very little mercy to its captives. This strict disciplinary approach led to the disturbing disaster in Auburn Prison where 80 men undergoing strict solitary sentences either suffered from mental breakdowns or committed suicide(“Prison”) Through Dorothea Dix’s hard work and leadership, she reformed…
When you think about what has changed between now and the 1800’s there are endless possibilities to mention. Most of the time however these changes have been for the better. When you come across something that hasn’t changed much one can’t help but wonder why. The similarities between institutionalism now and in the 1800’s are eerily similar. “In the 1830’s jail was an all purpose solution for a lot of issues” (Campbell, 2014). Intentional or not I still feel like this is still the case. The people in prison who are confined in solitary either have mental issues, which caused them to end up in solitary confinement, or they made a bad decision causing them to end up in solitary. Whatever the primary mental state of the prisoner, the majority…
The reconstruction era was the period after the civil war when the United States was trying to repair the government. William Mason Grosvenor, an abolitionist and commander to a unit of African-American soldiers, wanted a radical and harsh reconstruction (Dudley 7). Herman Melville, a writer from the North, wanted a lenient reconstruction (Dudley 8). Therefore, he did not want the reconstruction to be spiteful (Dudley 9). The reconstruction should have been a peaceful way to restore the broken country and reunite the North and South.…
The two readings Band of Brothers and A Message to Garcia, were insightful into what it takes to be a good Soldier, and leader. The underlying theme of Band of Brothers is that of brotherhood, hard work, and the importance of doing what needs to be done regardless of how difficult it maybe. While A Message to Garcia, brings up of the importance of work ethic and how that is an uncommon trait that everyone values but few have. Both texts tell how the importance of discipline, focus, and the courage it takes to over-come overwhelming odds. They both speak about life lessons that will guide me towards what I hope to accomplish and become over my military career.…
Prison experiences are shared by those who spent much time behind the bars and most of the experiences shared exemplify how cruel the prison system really was showing that no rehabilitation was occurring due to an excess in punishment. The Los Angeles Times published an article, “Cruel and Usual Punishment in Jails and Prisons,” in which ex-prisoners were interviewed and shared stories of their time in prison, many of which showed how corrupt prisons have truly become. The stories described prisons as appalling and cruel, one prisoner describe being handcuffed every day to his bunk while he had to remain only in his underwear, another prisoner described how it was to live in a cell located directly under broken toilet pipes for weeks resulting…
Would you believe me if I told you that prisons were originally built to reform prisoners? With they way the criminal justice system works and how high the rates of mass incarceration are, in today's day and age, I, myself, would not believe that prisons were built with a positive outcome in mind. If someone would have told me that in the eighteen hundreds prison were used as a place to reform individuals, I would have given them a nasty looking face full of disbelief. But now that I have this information, the question is, what changed? Why is this method still not being practiced in today’s society? However, while asking these question, I realize that it is absolutely amazing the way things change and how easily things are tainted.…
Throughout the centuries, both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries, prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place, where criminals were held, rather than a means of punishment. In fact, criminals, at that time, were publically punished, rather than imprisoned, in the most torturous ways such as whipping, and slaughtering. However, in the 18th century, people in charge decided to put an end to these cruel methods of punishing. They came up with new methods of punishing instead of using torture in punishing criminals. In fact, the incarceration with hard labor was the new method of punishing criminals. Thus, the prison itself became a tool of punishment.…
Supermax prisons are considered effective because they consolidate the most violent criminals and allow for other prisons to function more safely and more normally for both staff and inmates. However the inmates cannot just be consolidated and held to the same standards as regular prisons, as was revealed at Marion in 1980 when the “operation began to show clear signs of the underlying stresses of using this quasi-normal system to deal with such aggressive offenders” (Hickey pg. 164). In response, a new and more sophisticated facility was created to cater to the high-security needs of a prison with extremely dangerous inmates. These newer facilities were created to “control the inmate’s behavior until they demonstrate that they can be moved back to a traditional open-population penitentiary” (Hickey pg. 165). While incarcerated at…
The state prison systems of today were founded on the nineteenth-century penitentiary, which was itself based on the legal reforms of the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment (Foster, 2006). Most of the states actually begin with one state prison and now each state consists of more than 20 state facilities the state of Texas consist of 100 facilities. In the beginning of the state facilities they were based on the Auburn model and then proceeded on to have special needs which were woman and the younger offenders. The State facilities also had halfway houses for the offenders that were addicted to drugs and alcohol and these houses helped the offenders through hard times.…
In 1790 came the birth of the Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The penitentiary was different than other systems in that it isolated prisoners, “ …isolated from the bad influences of society and one from another so that, while engaged in productive labor, they could reflect on their past miss-deeds…and be reformed,” (Clear, Cole, Reisig). The American penitentiary and its new concept was observed and adopted by other foreign countries.…