Prisoners Argument found in 13th:Politicians and police are biased as the African-American race is largely proportioned in prisons; racism. Agree: 2.4 million people are currently imprisoned in the United States of America. Forty percent of the prisoners are black males. This is no coincidence. Politicians have manipulated the government to target African Americans; racism never ended with slavery. For instance‚ Birth of a Nation created an image of the black race as being rapist and savages. This
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being released from prison. According to the course text‚ although that research has shown that providing inmates with employment and other economic assistance will dramatically reduce the possibility of recidivism‚ majority of the prisons systems are not willing or unable to assist inmates (Austin & Irwin‚ 2012). In my opinion‚ I don’t think this is fair because when the inmates are released from prison‚ then he or she does not have a money or a job. Therefore‚ I think that prison should provide some
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The premise of the film is a revered and distinguished Army general has pled guilty to disobeying orders‚ from the President. He is sent to a military prison to serve his sentence. General Irwin‚ meets the warden of the prison‚ Colonel Winter‚ who he ultimately discovers is cruel and murderous. Even though the inmates of the prison are criminals‚ they are also military personnel and still possess a self-respect and discipline. Which is against the warden’s wishes‚ the General helps institute a rank
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The United States sends more people to prison than any other country in World. The state of Kentucky has also been having a jail problem. The Kentucky police has been locking up more inmates than they have ever before. The jails are overpopulated and the state is trying to figure out a solution to this jail problem. The video “Prison State”‚ a documentary by PBS Frontline‚ shows the problem Kentucky has with more inmates in jail. The states spends a lot of money to lock up prisoners. The state alone
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The Prison Industrial Complex in America The main goal of private prisons is to make profit disregarding the necessities of the inmates. Privatization provides bad health services to the inmates‚ lack of opportunities to get an education‚ undertrained staff‚ insecurity‚ and a high recidivism rate. The United States has the largest incarceration rate in the entire world‚ and this is due to the prison-industrial complex (PIC). The more defendants are sent to private prison‚ the more profit they and
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The Stanford Prison Experiment The stanford prison experiment is one of the infamous experiments conducted in the history of psychology. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University in August‚ 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. The basic premise was to find out and determine what happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil‚ or does evil triumph? Does the system that we inhabit and are a part of start to control our
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From 1980 to 2016‚ there has been a total increase of over 2‚100% in the Bureau of Prisons’ budget. • Over 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated in the United States. • More than 65 million Americans‚ or roughly one in five‚ have a criminal record. • Today‚ there are nearly 4‚500 federal statutory crimes‚ up to 300‚000 administrative code provisions that carry criminal penalties‚ and Congress is enacting new crimes at a rate of 57 per year. • While crime in America continues to decline‚ an
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guards in a spurious jail is a peculiar way to determine roles in society. Philip G. Zimbardo was the mastermind of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ which was a psychological experiment that determined the roles of members in a society that became a fiasco (“Philip G. Zimbardo” 1). The experiment left emotional and mental scars on mock-prisoner lives. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) illustrates the way a person changes when a label and power is all of a sudden given to hoax guards in order to
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In today’s society‚ the topic of private prisons being more effective than federal prisons can often lead to an controversial discussion because not many can agree on which one is most effective. A private prison company named‚ the Correction Corporation of America is one of the largest private companies owning 51 facilities in 16 states (Brian Kincade‚2017). It is believed that one of the biggest contributions of the CCA is the money that it can save the United States in the long run. As reporter
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There are numerous differences between men’s and women’s prisons in the United States. Differences in men’s and women’s prisons are a result of a variety of different factors including differences in physiology‚ brain chemistry‚ and differences in brain structure. According to Jantz (2014)‚ “females tend to have verbal centers on both sides of the brain‚ while males tend to have verbal centers on only the left hemisphere.” These structural differences result in vast differences in how males and female
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