Essays on Prison overcrowding

 AbstractThe United States holds the highest frequency of incarceration in the world, of about 1 to a 100 people imprisoned, it represents a very steeply increasing trend towards crime and incarceration. While the sad part being that this increase in imprisonment is not even leading to any decrease in crime in the country, but is…

Prison overcrowding is one of the many different problems throughout the world that law enforcement faces. Prison overcrowding not only affects those in law enforcement, it also affects the taxpayers in the community as well. The problem of overcrowded prisons is being handled in many different ways. Some of these ways have been proven to…

The Shawshank Redemption “I’m telling you, these walls are funny. First, you hate them. Then you get used to them. Enough time passes, it gets so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized. ” – “Red,” from The Shawshank Redemption. We are all born as bare as a blank canvas. It is through the process of…

Today American correction facilities experience a crisis of epic proportions. United States prisons and jails house inmates in record numbers with no relief. This situation leads many to suggest that overcrowding in prisons constitutes an important issue facing American correction reform today. One way to deal with overcrowded prisons is to enforce the death penalty….

Two months behind bars and time drifting past as if there is no tomorrow. My prison cell was seven feet in length and seven feet wide. While there, I was almost stabbed by another inmate. I had no freedom, the food was poorly prepared and I always felt fear for my life. I then woke…