Paper Topic:

Corrections

p Corrections

Introduction

An intensely shattered personality lies within the four walls of the prison and his psyche needs constant care . Moreover , upon release , he has to restart and rebuild life amidst the mainstream of society that is not likely to assimilate him easily and willingly . Whether guilty or not guilty , whether a convicted prisoner or an acquitted one , the prison-stamp shall remain forever on him . The social world of prison is entirely different from the world outside . Also prison population is of various pros . There are people from rural , urban

and metropolitan areas illiterate , literate , petty thieves , intelligent cheats murderers , smugglers , drug peddlers and many innocents too . All of them have to fall in line to the uniform rules as prescribed in the Jail Manuals . The Manual is fixed and rigid . The officials that are in charge of implementing those regulations change , new officers take charge due to administrative exigencies . What is the rapport and attitude of the prison-official and how he responds to the human aspirations of the prisoners is the moot point . Donald Clement , a correctional Officer at Menard Penitentiary , a prison for men in Illinois , in his book The Prison Community , describes the various ways through which inmates assimilate to the social world of the prison . He terms the process as prisonalizaion . Illinois prison had a fairly big population of 2300 prisoners

Explain the issue

How the Officials in charge and the prisoners connect , is the core issue . Prisonization of America is considered as a shameful social problem . The more the number of prisons , the more `sick ' is the society One of the prosperous countries in the world , from the materialistic achievement standards , USA is the leading prison country in the world American prison population increased by a whopping 500 between 1970 to 2000 .Two millions people are locked up in the American Prisons . The statement that American Politics nurtured this prison-nation is not jut a platitude . It is backed up by well-researched facts

Discuss ways prisonization might be lessened for inmates and staff and why this would be desirable

Prisonization is the assimilation process in prison where inmates take on in greater or less degree . the folkways , mores , customs , and general culture of the penitentiary (Clemmer , 1940 ,

. 299 ' Broadly speaking , there are two types of inmates in the prison the criminals and the innocents . One more category may be added to the former - the die-hard criminals . Such individuals are not only criminals they propagate criminality . For them criminality is a way of life , a trade-and any trader wants his business to flourish . They get sufficient coolant within the prison to chalk out their future crime-projects Moreover , all laws , just because they are the laws of the land , are not faultless aphorisms . A difficult law implemented in a worst manner is the ultimate calamity for the under-trial . California 's Three Strikes " law , is an example . As per the legal interpretation of this law , a three-time offender even for minor offences gets long prison terms and he...

4 pages

37.5 KB

Free sing-up