Prison reform

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8th December 2008

Prison Reforms

Prisons as often been indicated , are in the sense that much of the aspects of an individuals life is out of his or her control . Within prisons , the human life as we know it is subjected to numerous constraints which include spatial confinement impacting on the freedom of movement . It has often been stated that prisons adversely affect the normal development and growth of individuals as the aging process is normally accelerated . Prisons take physical toll on an individual 's

body as it has been estimated that an inmate doing any amount of time will look ten years older than their actual age (Cordilia , 1983 . However , one certain fact is that prisoners are doing time . This is a phrase normally used to refer to the human suffering characteristic of individuals and their life within the confines of the prison . Statistical evidence show that correctional officers suffer from all types of conditions related with stress due to their conditions and state within the prisons . Such include serious alcohol abuse , depression , heart attacks , hypertension and ulcers

According to Silverman and Vega (1996 , an individual 's life expectancy is reduced by more than eighty percent when serving any amount of years in the prison . This points towards prisons being hard ' places where human life as we understand it is reduced to something indescribable . As much as prisons are meant to deter crimes , more often that not , they emerge as...