Category: Prison

Argumentative Essay on Felons Voting Voting Rights for Felons On November 8, 2016, an estimated 6.1 million citizens were barred from engaging in casting their votes because of felony charges (Cheung). This disenfranchised population included people currently in jail and also millions of people under parole or probation, and those who had completed their sentence.…

Essay on School to Prison Pipeline Literature Review The School-to-Prison Pipeline is an incessant trend, particularly within urban schools in America. It has increasingly been influenced by discriminatory policies causing disproportionate effects on certain adolescent groups and families on the basis of color. The implementation of a zero-tolerance policy has further mitigated the cause. Consistent…

Essay on Punishment Vs Rehabilitation Society and Crime The purpose of this paper will serve to provide an overview of how the impacts of crime affect public policy, sentencing, practices, and operations of correctional institutions, along with a societal response to those impacts. We will attempt to examine why there is a need for punishment…

Should Felons Be Allowed to Vote: Essay In comparison to the rest of the developed world, the United States of America has one of the most punitive prison systems. The government claims that its prisons focus on rehabilitation, yet on average, 60 percent of all inmates will return to prison (Chung). Felons lives are thereby…

Should Prisoners Be Allowed to Vote: Essay Can you imagine what it would be like to be dumb? Not being able to express your opinions because no one cared to pay attention to your gibberish. For many inmates, disenfranchisement, which is the act of depriving ones right to vote, is identical to being democratically dumb.…

Why Felons Should not Be Allowed to Vote: Argumentative Essay Franchising felons from voting has an impact on elections, silences the voice that felons have, and strips them of a right that they should have. In the 2016 elections, many states were close, with some winning by only a small margin. Florida was within 120,000…

The Problems and Ways of Improvement the Prison System in the UK In England and Wales, the prison system is in crisis. Self-harming in prison has reached a record high of 61,461 cases in the past 12 months up to September 2019; compared to the previous 12 months thats an increase of 16% (Government, 2020).…

The Peculiarities Of Prison Officer Work Previously the role of a prison officer was merely a turnkey, expected to ensure that prisoners were behaving in a disciplined manner and safety was kept (Bennett et al., 2008). In the late nineteenth century and beyond, the role of the officer developed and changed, to a moral reformer.…

Prison Reform Essay: The Reasons And Significance Introduction to Prison Reform It is a proven fact that once someone from a family is imprisoned, family connections and relations become weaker. This means that every time someone is imprisoned, their family will not necessarily disperse, but grow apart. Prison systems in the United States should be…

The Reasons, Types And Effects Of Drugs In Prison For decades, illegal smuggling of drugs has been a severe problem in England and Wales prisons. According to Alex (2018), approximately 40% of incarcerated individuals test positive for drugs. Prisoners who use drugs suffer from mental and physical health complications, and their likelihood of recovering are…