male college students who would later be convinced that they were prison inmates and prison guards in less than 24 hours. This study was voluntarily cut short after only six days due to the unexpected results which were found. Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment of August 1971 quickly became a classic. Using realistic methods‚ Zimbardo and others were able to create a prison atmosphere that transformed its participants. The young men who played
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Reflection: Arts in Prisons The Arts in Prison organization teaches arts and culture to the Lansing Correction Facility. It strives to create a positive environment where the inmates can be educated while also building self-confidence. Program manager Lynsey Becher‚ has volunteered and worked with the program for many years. She believes that having a “nonjudgmental environment” for the prisoners lets them grow and gain self worth. When the inmates are released from prison they have developed in
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Just Keep Taxes Low Even though privatizing prisons is considered morally wrong by many people‚ these prisons are supervised by the state‚ have the government’s permission to operate‚ and they exist because public jails cannot handle the number of prisoners. The main reason I support prison privatization is because they reduce taxes. First‚ since they are not part of the government’s property citizens don’t have to pay for them to operate and more money could be used to build other things such as
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sentences with the possibility of no parole along with counseling and rehabilitation. Many believe that putting an adolescent in prison with a life sentence is a cruel and unfair punishment. In the past couple of years‚ the law changed to place underage delinquents in rehabilitation centers or juvenile hall for no more than a year rather than prison. Placing a youth in a prison is said to have a negative affect on the child‚ making parents afraid to have their teenagers locked away‚ even after committing
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Hospitals‚ prisons and other community service agencies‚ in addition to being landing pads for those with mental illness‚ also contribute to the problem of homelessness through mounting debt and inadequate discharge planning. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy and contributes to housing instability in 27% of people struggling with medical bills (Pollitz et al. n.p.). Even among individuals with private health insurance‚ those with “out-of-pocket medical expenses that exceed five percent
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Sexual Assault in Prisons Intro: Sexual assault in prisons has been a problem ever since prisons have been established. Whether it’s the guards assaulting the inmates or the inmates assaulting the other inmates it is still a problem. Every person who ever enters a prison facility will either witness someone being sexually assaulted or will engage in the act of sexually assaulting someone. Thesis: Sexual assaults in prison are a problem because they can lower the self esteem of the victim and
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Running Head: PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 1 Steven Schultz CJA/ 314 October 21‚ 2014 Anita Gopaul- Alexander PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 2 Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal I am a criminologist advisor to a member of the state legislature. There will be a bill‚ that will be voted on and if passed it will double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. My boss and other members of the legislature knows that
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about to speak on. As a former correctional officer working with both juveniles and adult offenders‚ I could see very little difference in their thought patterns. Prisons and detention facilities are supposed to act as a deterrent to criminal activity. I mean being unpleasant‚ potential offenders are suppose to be afraid of going to prisons. However‚ I found out that it doesn’t work that way. The criminal mind
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been programs implemented in some prisons such as extended visiting programs in prison and programs that allow parenting while incarcerated. Programs that allow for mothering in prison aim to offer new alternatives for families who get split apart as a result of incarceration. This paper will utilize the article “Motherhood as Punishment: The Case of Parenting in Prison” as a way to analyze a fairly new program called Visions that promises to offer mothers in prison a way to be in their children’s
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Does prison make the inner demon come out in the prisoner/guard or is the prisoner /guard already wired that way? The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. This experiment was led by a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo‚ he had the help of a team of researchers. The purpose of this particular experiment was to induce disorientation‚ depersonalization‚ and DE individualization in the participants. After a period of time
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