Sentencing Kids to Adult Prisons Is Like Throwing Them to the Wolves By Megan Newell Kids who commit serious crimes should not go scot-free. If society doesn’t recognize them as adults until the age of 18‚ why do kids suddenly become responsible as an adult when they commit a crime? Children have as much business in a prison as they do a bar. Yet‚ twenty-three states have no minimum age. Two‚ Kansas and Vermont‚ can try 10 year old kids as adults. An adult tried and convicted of first-degree
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Violent behavior among prison inmates continue to rise. There are certain prison rules that are set by the more dominant inmates and when those rules are broken by the less dominant inmates‚ there are consequences that must be suffered. These consequences include acts of violence being carried out against the “perpetrators.” With dominance being so important to inmates‚ there are often fights to prove who is more dominant. Once the dominance has been established‚ everyone else is expected to submit
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The War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding David Turner CCJ 1020 October 06‚ 2012 Overcrowding is one of the most difficult challenges that prison administrators face in the United States. There are many factors that that affect the constant flow of people being processed into today’s prisons. The “war on drugs” has led to more arrest and convictions that any other crime. The money spent on the prohibition of drugs and the law enforcement presence to stop drug trafficking raises high into the
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Prison Reform in the 19th Century So‚ every time I re-read a source or try to write‚ I keep thinking back to what I am actually trying to argue. I’ve finally figured out my argument: Hawthorne portrayed Hollingsworth as a failure because he did not believe in the prison reform efforts of the time. I came to this through looking at a lot of parallels in my sources‚ and finding different reasons for why my hypothesis is true. The two types of prison reform in the early 1800s were meant to reform
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The Penitentiary System in The United States Introduction: It seems that prison causes more problems than fixing them nowadays. American Prisons are considered to be very large institutions that are mainly composed of black American and other people of color; blacks‚ Hispanic and a bit of white people. It is weird since 60% of the American Population is white. Each year new rules are implemented to make inmates life harder than before. The majority of them are mainly people of color. These inmates
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I believe it is a great thing for the prisons to offer vocational certificates‚ and different trades to the inmates. It help in so many ways‚ really more than people would think it do. People that have to go into prison; having to do a lot of time already at times feel worthless‚ and may even feel what do they offer in this world. Only thing on their minds at that time of coming in is trying to make sure that they don’t get raped‚ or mistreated. On the other hand‚ with these vocational certificates
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Most administrators support building‚ and feel new prison construction will improve inmate living conditions and perhaps relieve overcrowding; however‚ many observers have concluded that it will be impossible to solve the prison crowding problem by capacity expansion. Institutions generally have a long lead time between the point when policy makers approve their construction and the date
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Luis Valdez and Peter Malae on Prison Industrial Complex Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance‚ policing‚ and imprisonment as solutions to social‚ economic‚ and political problems. Angela Davis is a journalist and American political activist who believes that the U.S practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than any system of criminal justice. She defines the PIC as biased for criminalizing
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2013 Juveniles in Prison All over the world teenagers are in prison for stealing‚ drug use‚ and sexual abuse. The teenagers that are in prison‚ here in Malawi‚ don’t receive a good enough health care‚ justice system‚ and help they need for when they are released. Most prisons and jails are going to be overcrowded and unsanitary. The youth in Malawi are overlooked‚ they are underprivileged and no one ministers to them. Now imagine‚ if you can‚ how many of the youth in prison are receiving less
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handled by correction officers and are all usually treated the same way. This in fact places great punishment on these individuals who in most cases do not deserve it. In the article‚ “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey”‚ prisons and jails are referred to as the “new asylums” and goes on to state that mentally ill individuals have the right to receive proper medical care for mental illness just as individuals that suffer from diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and HIV
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