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    Education In Prison Essay

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    be afforded the opportunity to gain any extras while serving time for unlawful acts they committed. The question then remains‚ is prison for punishment only‚ or is the main goal to rehabilitate the prisoner to be a productive member of society upon their release? Most individuals that enter prison are undereducated. Studies show over half of the individuals in prison have a reading level of a fourth grader. Many have not finished high school or have even earned a G.E.D. Lacking a high school education

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    Does Prison Work?

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    Does Prison Work? Since the beginning of recorded history‚ imprisonment has been used as a method of punishing those who have broken societies laws. However‚ the nature of prisons has changed throughout history to adapt to societies norms. In recent years‚ our custodial facilities have been questioned more and more as a form of state punishment. In this essay I will attempt to answer the question of whether imprisonment is really an effective form of punishment in terms of it being a deterrent

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    U.S. Prison Costs

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    U.S. Prison Costs After reading the essay‚ “A Homemade Education‚” an autobiography of Malcolm X‚ I became quite curious about how many dollars America spends toward the prison system and how it affects our society. The autobiography itself covers how Malcolm X gained a homemade education simply by reading books while serving time in prison. He claimed‚ “I don’t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did…prison enabled me to study far more intensively…sometimes as much

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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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    Prison Observation Paper

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    cope will prison life‚ how well they interact with others and how they are able to cope once release from prison. This study will be a longitudinal study with a three-year reevaluation period giving the participants enough time to absorb their situation and to see if any changes occurred during those three months. Participants in this study will consist of a sample of 200 juvenile male individuals who are between the ages of 14 to 18 years of age who are to be sentence to an adult prison. All participants

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    Historical Prison Eras

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    Throughout the years the way prisons are run has changed. Changes include social roles‚ informal behavior norms‚ and social solidarity. Prison history has three major eras the Big House‚ the correctional institution‚ and the contemporary prison. In The Big House era criminals were known as “convicts” and the guards where known as “hacks” and they were both supposed to keep distance from each other. To make their time easier in the Big House‚ convicts developed their own social roles‚ informal codes

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    Wearing your pants below your waist hold other meanings and is measured to be a signal for gay men. Originally sagging came from prison where the criminals were not issued out belts. Prison issued clothing tends to rather baggy‚ especially the pants that tend to fall off. Majority of men who sag will tell you they are following “the trend” or that it’s “cool”. However in prison this fashion was used for inmates looking for gay sex. Therefore Government and school officials should police what teens choose

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    Prison: Punishment or Vacation. Three hot meals a day‚ free education‚ and shelter from the elements‚ does this sound good to any one? I bet it does‚ especially to the 737‚304 homeless people who according to the human rights record of the United States in 2005‚ have none of these thing that are given daily to murderers‚ rapists‚ and drug dealers. I think it is great that people who kill other people get sent to prison. I do not think it is great that convicts are given the opportunity to obtain

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    Overcrowded Prisons Imagine being trapped in a small room‚ with four other people who are all criminals‚ that’s what comes to mind when people think of overcrowded prisons. It probably reeks of odder and sweet from being in the cell all day. It’s so overcrowded because so many crimes are being committed that there is not enough room for all of the people. It effects of over crowdedness may be tax payers money‚ the behavior of the inmates may change‚ staff problems‚ and just being in the prison is constantly

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    Professor Philip Zimbardo‚ leader of the Stanford prison experiment considered three questions before initiating one of the most significant experiments to human phycology. He asked; ‘What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does the situation outside of you come to control your behaviour? Or do the things inside you such as your attitudes‚ your values and your morality etc. allow you to rise above a negative environment? The experiment was intended to last two weeks‚ but was terminated

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