Prisoners During Reintegration

Outline

Introduction
Background of the prisons
Lifestyle prisoners spend in there

Behavior of Past Criminal
The behavior of prisoners after getting free
They perform shameful acts

Discussion
Covers problems of criminals who integrate with the society and the justice they get

Problems
Overall situation that criminals face during reintegration
There are more people who find difficulty settling down

Restorative Justice
The justice that people get during reintegration with the society

Conclusion
The closing of the paper
Highlight the importance of successful reintegration
Abstract
This paper highlights the overall problems faced by the prisoners when their given punishment is fulfilled by them. However, it also provides an aspect on the justice system that provided to these past prisoners who are ready to reintegrate with the society. Although, it is a very difficult phase that
they have to tackle, but most of them fail to spend a life of a reputable citizen. However, there are important aspects on the behavioral pattern, of these criminals and how they become a problem for the society. This paper also shows how inmates depend on the system to live and form a pattern within that system. Without those for wall in the system they cannot operate correctly. In the end the inmates show that after being locked up within those walls it sometimes takes too long to readjust to the free world, causing sometimes for the free inmates to find a way to reenter the walls they became to depend on.

Analyzing the Stance of Criminal Reintegration
Introduction
Since ancient times, the word prison is known by all as a place of detention for the purpose of punishing and to charge the crime.
Yet even at the end of the detention sentence is still there. Indeed rehabilitation was considered late. It was not until 1791 to hear the words "Rehabilitating much as punish." Was the motto of the founders of the modern prison? Reintegration has a very specific meaning: it is inserted; reintroduce someone in the company in a group. For these words are of value to people and mark their minds, it would be easy to illustrate our subject by a very simple example: when a student comes three months after the start it must adapt to new methods of teaching and it makes its way through the class since there are groups already created. Similarly, an individual who is ten years in prison and cut off from the world will do the same job but at a higher level. Is it so easy to win as such? We must add that 60% of inmates released unemployed and about 25% have less than two dollars at the end, which brings us to about a recurrence in three (Braithwaite,
1989).

Behavior of Past Criminal
Shaming has long been associated with methods of social control throughout the world 's history. All three of the major components of the criminal justice system; policing, the courts, and corrections have played a part in this social process, particularly the correctional system; and the courts, from which many of the shaming methods were promulgated. The earliest human shaming elements were much less formal and often involved society 's citizens policing themselves in this manner.
In the United States in the 1970s, shaming measures again became popular as tougher penal sentences began to be perceived by the courts and citizens as ineffective. Judges across the country doled out sentences that incorporated shaming in the punishments; though they were less severe and incorporated less physical pain, they still relied on emotional pain. Wearing signs or clothing that reveal past criminal activity, affixing bumper stickers that disclose a drunk driving charge, advertising crimes in newspapers, and other measures have become the new shaming penalties (Braithwaite, 2000).
Many people advocate shaming sentences as they are viewed as an effective way of deterring crime, especially if used along with apologies and informal means of restitution within the larger context of a system of justice that focuses on reintegration of offenders as well as victim 's rights. Others feel that shaming methods are overly punitive, debasing, and are basically holdovers from the days when public displays of shaming punishments simply created a label that offenders were unable to live down. The debate over shaming as an effective means of punishment continues in the United States and globally (Braithwaite, 2000).
Discussion
There are various problems attached to the prisoners who leave the prisons and try to reintegrate with the society. They are normally, not in good condition, however, this area will cover the two aspects of criminals who are trying to integrate with society. There is a positive notion for them provided by the justice for them to have a better control over the judicial problems face by the past criminals who are trying to reintegrate with the society. On the contrary, they will also be looking into the negative facts that the past criminals have to face when they are going through the reintegration period.
Problems
On leaving, the prisoners are struggling to find an organization and a life without constraints particularly in the areas of labor and housing but the state was still quite involved in this cause. Organizations are intended to help former prisoners reintegrate into society. They bring them great support because it is always difficult for an inmate to return to "normal" life. Shelters and Social Reinsertion are the most common solutions to the problems of housing for people in great difficulties. Reception in nursing homes, private or public is at present the bulk of assistance to released prisoners. In addition to their release, the prisoner must go to the fund family allowance for housing benefit. Add to this Housing Solidarity Fund the ascetic can pay the security deposit for housing, and buy some furniture. However, the membership of this system implies acceptance of monitoring to assess social inclusion. In other words, the state contributes strongly to support for housing for former inmates. The work is also a very big problem for inmates but also in this area, the state provides assistance, however, small. First of all it holds more and more training inside the prison that will be useful to prisoners for entering the workforce when they leave and they need to seek employment (Steiner, 1999).
Family and friends are of fundamental importance in the rehabilitation of a former inmate. Indeed they appear as a moral force, a real support and sometimes even as a financial and emotional. Again, there are many cases relatives do not accept the fact a family member is going to prison so the prisoner is left alone with himself. Therefore, the prisoner has a lack of support due to some misunderstanding or shame of family. So for the latter the only solution is total indifference. Unfortunately, this lack of attention is often the cause of recurrence: ex-prisoners receiving no aid for the release sink back into the offense. Similarly, for example, a person who was imprisoned for one year for drug trafficking received no attention from his family leaving. They said he chose an armed robbery to be noticed by his family, but the offense has earned him three years in prison. In addition to the family and friends, the eyes of others are to tell passers-by, strangers, employers who unfortunately, knew the inmate 's criminal history was very important and often very negative (Steiner, 1999).
Restorative justice
Restorative justice also seeks to provide opportunities for offenders to be accountable for these harms; to make amends to those they have harmed, when possible; and to reintegrate into their communities after they have made amends. Finally, restorative justice seeks to include local communities into justice processes to the extent that they may help support victims, provide opportunities for offender reintegration, and when possible, participate in the shaping of justice policies and community approaches to crime.
Restorative justice literature was regularly identifying several problems in justice practices, specifically (1) the exclusion of victims from participating in and having knowledge of their cases, (2) the failure of criminal justice systems to provide or allow for meaningful redress for victims, (3) the re-victimization of victims by policing and prosecutorial agencies, (4) the problems in adversarial forms of justice that discourage offenders from taking responsibility for their offenses, (5) the lack of means by which offenders could take responsibility and make amends to those they have harmed, (6) the lack of successful offender reintegration, and (7) the forging of justice policies that excluded and often harmed local communities to the benefit of the state.
Western justice systems do little to afford offenders any concrete means by which to make amends to those they have harmed, and to reintegrate into the communities where trust has been broken. The work was the concept of shame, which he argued is present in both informal types of social control as well as within formal criminal justice practices. Western societies, Braithwaite argued, had effectively uncoupled shame and punishment to the degree that today, punishment practices are essentially private ones that seek to restore order and social homeostasis through rehabilitation, or through the administration and application of the pain away from public view. In either case, however, be it rehabilitation or punishment, there is too little emphasis on setting forth specific and concrete requirements by which an offender may cross the line back into conventional behavior and group acceptance (Ward, 2004).
However, people got their recognized that while some crimes were so heinous as to require “special handling,” and some offenders so dangerous that they must be removed from society, he argued that such cases had, in fact, set the norm for how Western societies approached crime control on the whole. In the vast number of cases, he argued, there was ample opportunity for a new, normative set of guiding justice principles centered on the questions of how particular programs might repair harm done to victims, support the ability of offenders to make amends and reintegrate, and address community needs and obligations surrounding crime (Ward, 2004).
People are also face questions of whether or not the benefits to those who participate victims, offenders, and community members can realistically begin to address structural patterns of inequality that have created a bifurcated system of justice. In places where questionnaires has been used, research suggests that it has provided marked improvement over more traditional justice interventions.

Conclusion
In conclusion, the reintegration of inmates into society is very important because if it goes well, the inmate will not be tried again. Indeed, if they feel the margins of society, it will not be what to do. The stay in prison is not used as a way to cut the world a person who has made a mistake but to make him aware of the seriousness of it. Justice is a way from his old life for it to start in another. However, rehabilitation is difficult indeed, although the surroundings and all aid are relatively large, it is necessary that the prisoner has really wanted to face the new life that awaits him. Personal investment is, therefore, essential. However, the company also plays an important role. It is true that it is difficult to consider an inmate as an innocent person. Their eyes were impressive. In addition, the presence of seven policemen to monitor only two detainees has even more caution (Weisheit, 1996).
It is, therefore, necessary to be less suspicious because inmates feel it and it does not encourage them to fight to get a new place in society. Also, when they leave prison they must integrate into a new life, accustomed to the new rules of society and especially to the rules of life as a person falling into a coma or returning from a long trip would have to do. They were cut off from the world, and return to life is difficult. They face many difficulties in order to rehabilitate and reintegrate. Therefore, the word rehabilitation is not limited to the field of prison; it is very meaningful to many of us. Whether for a move, a long sleep or long trips reinsert remains a problem more or less serious in our society (Weisheit, 1996).

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