McCann1 There are many things that will affect you in prison. I’m going to give you several facts about how it will. My first topic is physical health. At the time of prison release, one half of men and two thirds of women reported having been diagnosed with a chronic physical health condition. Physical health status was assessed by asking respondents to note those conditions that a doctor or nurse had diagnosed them with. Table 3 shows full range of conditions that respondents were asked about their self-reported rates of illness for comparison purpose, these are displayed alongside national prevalence estimates for correctional populations developed by the National Commission on Correctional Health care. Asthma hepatitis infection …show more content…
One-fifth of returning prisoners reported having been diagnosed with a chronic communicable disease (i.e., hepatitis, tuberculosis, and HIV). Hepatitis B or C infection (11 percent) was most common communicable disease reported men, follow by tuberculosis infection, (5 percent), and HIV or AIDS (2 percent). Women reported similar rates of hepatitis (15 percent) and tuberculosis (4 percent), but were more likely to reported having HIV or AIDS (6 …show more content…
It was acknowledged that for some people whose lives were in chaos and who were causing serious harm to others, a time in prison could have beneficial consequences. Despite this, the WHO Mental Health in Prison Project agreed that for the majority of prisoners, imprisonment was likely to have the following effects: isolation from families and social networks, austere surroundings loss of privacy and poor physical and hygienic conditions, aggression, bullying, fear, suspicion and the attitudes of unsympathetic and uninformed staff, lack of purposeful activity, of personal control, of power to act and loss of identity; pressure to escape or to take drugs, shame and stigmatization. many times people have gone to jail for killing people, most people who kill people are crazy and are freaks. A lot of people who go to jail have mental break downs or have already had
The “pains of imprisonment” can be divided into five main conditions that attack the inmate’s personality and his feeling of self-worth. The deprivations are as follows: The deprivation of liberty, of goods and services, of heterosexual relationships, autonomy and of security.
illnesses. It is estimated that about 50 percent of prison population suffers from some sort of mental illness. The most common mental illnesses that mostly make up this population are anxiety, antisocial personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder.
To Health Service In Correctional Evironments: Inmates Health Care Measurement, Satisfaction and Access In Prisons.” Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 50.3. (2011): 262-274. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 May 2014.
Thousands of people statewide are in prisons, all for different reasons. However, the amount of mental illness within prisons seems to go unaddressed and ignored throughout the country. This is a serious problem, and the therapy/rehabilitation that prison systems have do not always help those who are mentally ill. Prison involvement itself can contribute to increased suicide (Hills, Holly). One ‘therapy’ that has increased throughout the years has been the use of solitary confinement, which has many negative effects on the inmates.
Solitary confinement is a penal tactic used on inmates who pose a threat to themselves or other inmates. Solitary confinement is type of segregated prison in which prisoners are held in their cell for 22-24 hours every day. If they are allowed to leave their cell, they will silently walk shackled and in between two guards. They can only leave for showers or exercise. Their exercise and shower are always done alone and inside. They can exercise in fenced in yards surrounded by concrete. Solitary confinement is either used as a punishment for prison behaviors, a protection method for targeted inmates, or a place to keep prisoners who are a threat to the general prison population. Many prisoners are put in Administrative Segregation for their protection. Many prisoners in this type of segregation are teenagers, homosexuals, and mentally ill prisoners. Many mentally ill prisoners are sent to solitary confinement because there are not rehabilitation services available, and prison officials have run out of options (Shalev, 2008, p [1-2]). Solitary confinement is a convenient method for prison systems, but the detrimental effects on inmates make it an unsuitable option for inmate control.
The number of individuals that are incarcerated in the United States on a daily basis has surpassed 2.2 million (Gibbons & Katzenbach, 2011). Annually, 13.5 million people at some point and time spend time in prison or jail with approximately 95 percent of them ultimately returning to society (Gibbons et al., 2011). Taking the aforementioned statement into considerations the author believes that it is safe to say that what goes on behind prison walls effects all members of society. When correctional facilities are unsafe, unhealthy, unproductive, or inhumane it affects both the people who work in them as well as the people that are living there at some point and time.
Although people are sent to correctional institutions as punishment, he/she must not suffer pains beyond the deprivation of liberty no matter what the reason is for incarceration. Prisoners must always be treated humanely and in accordance with his/her behavior (Peak, 2007). Although punishment, by definition, involves the infliction of pain, the incapacitation itself is the punishment. Inmates are deprived of their liberty, and therefore incarceration is painful to those who value their liberty. Imprisonment may also lead to psychological punishment, which occasionally leads to mental and moral deterioration. The benefits of imprisonment include deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation or
Many male and female elderly offenders, ages 50 and older, are facing a lot of health problems like Cancer, blindness, mental disorders, heart disease, and aging. For instance, “Prisons in the United States contain an ever growing
The overall goal of correctional facilities can be broken down into three main functions which are retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation of the inmates. Today, there is much debate on rather private or public prison admiration is best to suit those goals. In a private prison the inmates are contracted out to a third party from either local, state, or federal government agencies (Smith 2012). Public prisons are where the government themselves house and supply the inmate’s basic needs with no third party involved. However, a large portion of the argument of private verses public prisons is over, which is best in achieving those goals more efficiently.
It’s inevitable for jail and prison to have negative mental and physical effects on people. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration out of any country in the world, and most of the people locked up in prison and jail right now are nonviolent offenders. There are over four times as many Americans incarcerated right now as there were in 1980.
The prisons methods of rehabilitation only makes the prisoners dead or very ill. On page 114 of WLFS it stated, “At least five had died from “consumption” and forty-one were ill.” According to the prison’s physician, “several had apparently gone insane.” Prisons are not suppose to cause illness nor death while using their methods. Consumption illness is infected lungs which makes the person have a very hard time to breathe. This method does not help these prisoners to normal life, it’s more of a punishment. Alexis de Tocqueville visited Eastern State and stated, “Thrown into solitude... [the prisoner] reflects. Placed alone, in view of his crime, he learns to hate it,” Alexis de Tocqueville goes on and states “where remorse will come to assail him” Being alone in a solitary confinement will cause many different illness. For example, hallucationation, panic attacks, overt paranoia, difficulty with thinking, concentration and memory, and many more. As these few illness will come from solitary confinement, many will still have trouble with the illness after their release to be with others or even back into society. In conclusion, prisons methods does not restore health, prisons creates health
An estimated 650,000 offenders are released from prisons each year. Most generally leave with only a few dollars, some clothes, and possibly a bus ticket. Release practices like this are common and can be especially disastrous for mentally ill inmates. If immediately released without access to health care, the mentally ill will suffer from interruption of continuity of care. In prison, they may have been receiving medication, therapy, or other forms of treatment. Interruption of care could lead to excelled deterioration in their mental health. This tends to lead to a higher rate of recidivism among mentally-ill former prisoners. (Hummert, 2011.).
Prisons exist in this country as a means to administer retributive justice for those that break the laws in our society or to state it simply prisons punish criminals that are to receive a sentence of incarceration for more than one year. There are two main sub-cultures within the walls of prison the sub-culture of the Department of Corrections (which consists of the corrections officer, administrators, and all of the staff that work at the prison and go home at the end of their day) and the actual prisoners themselves. As you can imagine these two sub-cultures are dualistic in nature and this makes for a very stressful environment for both sides of the fence. While in prison, the inmates experience the same conditions as described in the previous
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and widely viewed, health is a state of full physical, social, and mental well-being and cannot become restricted to the mere absence of disease. This widely excepted theory is what make health a foundational right all human beings, and one everyone should absolutely possess without limit. Accordingly, solitary confinement infringes on all of these health aspects. Mostly, it involves seclusion of an inmate from the rest for a minimum of 22 hours a day, for at least one day if deemed necessary (Shalev, 2012). This type of confinement has deleterious social, mental and physical health effects, particularly in youth, something that has been recorded by researchers and practitioners. Accordingly,
This paper examines the phenomenon of the most commons infectious Diseases in Prison/Jails which is one of the most significant controversies in our correctional systems. HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis (C, B, D, and A), and Tuberculosis are most like to appear in prison than the general population. Half of all the inmates have a history of being infected either with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C or Tuberculosis; this paper Explains how diseases are transmitted from one inmate to the others, and some technical use in prison to prevent infectious diseases from spreading to the general prison population. The study suggests that medical care provided to inmate must be adequate, inmates and prison staff should be given more medical attention, they need to get tested before entering to prison and before releasing from prison because it is a risk for both correctional systems and the outside world.