Essays on Prison

Prison classification is a method of assessing inmate risks that balances the security needs of the institution with treatment needs the individual. Effective classification can reduce prison infractions and create a safer environment of both inmates and staff. External classification places an inmate at a custody level that will determine where he or she will…

In 1973, Zimbardo carried out an experiment to investigate how readily people would conform to new roles by observing how quickly people would adopt the roles of a guard or prisoner in a simulated prison. Zimbardo took healthy male volunteers and pain them $15 per day to take part in the two-week simulation study of…

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…

From August 14 to August 20 of 1971 researchers at Stanford University in California funded an experiment that took regular untrained students and placed them in a prison type setting. Twenty four were chosen, some were designated as prisoners and others as guards. The experiment lasted only six of the planned fourteen day because a…

Letters from the Inside is a fiction novel written by Australian author John Marsden published in 1991. The novel follows letters exchanged by two fifteen-year-old girls Mandy and Tracey who begin writing after Tracey places an add in a magazine. Mandy soon discovers that Tracey has been lying to her whilst writing about her ‘perfect…

Rather than asking “are prisons Obsolete” what it seems Angela Davis is asking is “are prisons really necessary? ” Davis is quotes that more than “two million people out of a world total of 9 million now inhabit U. S. Prisons, jails, youth facilities and immigrant detention centers. And also brings up the issue of…

Introduction In the book Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis, she argues for the abolition of the present prison system. The book outlined the disturbing history behind the institution of prisons. Davis traced the evolution of the prison system from a slave camp to today’s multimillion industry serving the interests of the chosen few….

This control 01 was exhibited primarily through leases, as states leased prison systems to private entities. Private entities gene rated profits primarily by using prison labor to manufacture goods or to provide services. As the nineteenth century came to an end, the use of the private sector to ho use prisoners was rapidly declining, and…

In Andrew Hood’s Now Watch This, the strange setting represents the contrast between the father and son. The ominous-looking correctional facility is placed right next to the beautiful and calm pond to bring out the potential for violence the father has discovered within himself. Near the beginning of the story when the father and son…

The summer of 1830, following the organization of the Church, brought further particularly for the Smith family. Joseph Smith, Sr., father of the Prophet, was one of his On one occasion that fall, he was at home with his wife Lucy, and had been “rather ill.” A neighbors came to call, mostly critical of the…