The reason why I want to exam these mental states of criminals is because I want to show how unstable they are, after all, the main reason we keep those criminals in jail for a relatively long period of time is because we want them to learn from their past mistakes, but the poor supports for those criminals who just get out of jail will only cause them to do the same thing once again. And in many times, if we choose to not help those criminals who just get out of jails, they are more likely to miss the days in jail rather than hate it. There are great quotes about jail in the movie "The Shawshank redemption", "Red: These walls are funny. First you hate them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. Heywood: Shit. I could never get like that. Ernie: Oh …show more content…
The part that counts, anyway." (1994,"The Shawshank Redemption"). These criminals, spend so much time in jail that they do not even remember how to be a free person, how things work in prison become the only thing they know, and in jail, they spend time with other prisoners, in the society, you spend time with free people, some of them do not treat people who committed crimes before equally, in jail, the government provides them with food and bed, outside the prison, you are on your own. Why some criminals will miss the days in prison, because the way to live inside a prison is the only way they know to live a life. Also as Kimberley Brownlee mentions in the article "A Human Right Against Social Deprivation", "The thrust of my argument for the human right against social deprivation is as follows. We have a human right to those conditions that are necessary for the realisation of a minimally decent human life. Having minimally adequate opportunities for decent or supportive interpersonal contact and social inclusion is both a necessary condition for a minimally decent human life and a constitutive part of such a
" With violence affecting so many lives, one can understand the desire driven by fear to lock away young male offenders. But considering their impoverished, danger-filled lives, I wonder whether the threat of being locked up for decades can really deter them from crime" (305). Hopkins is definitely not our stereotypical prisoner. Most generally, our view of prisoners is not that of someone who has this profound use of wording and this broad sense of knowledge.
Abuse is a subject that should be considered important. There are about 960,000 abuse incidents reported annually. 85% of them are reported by women. The resting 15% are reported by men. In Fried Green Tomatoes, abuse is a recurring part of the book, Fannie Flagg does an admirable job in describing in detail the abuse incidents that happen throughout the book. Ruth is a character that receives abuse from her husband, she believes she deserves everything he does to her, even push her down the stairs. She finally takes the decision to escape from the abusive relationship she is in when her near death mother advices her to. Along the way characters develop some effects caused by abuse. People who suffer from abuse may develop fear, low self-esteem, or strength.
Clarence Darrow’s speech Crime and Criminals, “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” is a very unique speech with a different look at crime and criminals. Throughout the speech he states many important facts, but what he cannot seem to stress enough is the factor of circumstance. Darrow states that his view of crime and criminals is different than most peoples; he does not view people as good or bad, but rather sees them as people that have been brought up in different circumstances. Those people living life well-off have been introduced into this world on the side of wealth, while there are those who either live in poverty or in prison. It is said by Darrow that he believes jails should not exist and that everyone should be given fair chance at a successful life. Instead of leaving the justice of these individuals in the hands of affluent people, and allowing them to throw the unfortunate in prison, Darrow thinks that we should be giving them a chance to succeed.
Throughout his novel, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire, author and professor Robert Perkinson outlines the three current dominant purposes of prison. The first, punishment, is the act of disciplining offenders in an effort to prevent them from recommitting a particular crime. Harsh punishment encourages prisoners to behave because many will not want to face the consequences of further incarceration. While the purpose of punishment is often denounced, many do agree that prison should continue to be used as a means of protecting law-abiding citizens from violent offenders. The isolation of inmates, prison’s second purpose, exists to protect the public. Rehabilitation is currently the third purpose of prison. Rehabilitation is considered successful when a prisoner does n...
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.
Jails as Mental Hospitals. A joint report of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and
There are some inmates in jails and prisons that have a mental illness. It has been estimated that 10% to 16% of at adults in U.S prisons and jails have some kind of a mental illness (Mackain and Messer. p.89). It was calculated that 10% of male and 18% of females have a serious mental disorder (Mackain and Messer. p.89)...
Screening and evaluations for mental illnesses can help to identify individuals who could potentially hurt or endanger themselves and others. Screenings would also help determine if an inmate is able to function in the prison system or not. If the inmate cannot function in the prison system, then it could help to see if he should be transferred to a mental health facility. Mental health and substance abuse screenings are beneficial for many reasons and need to be put into prisons and jails. Although, some prisons do have rehabilitation programs for the inmates that need it, the therapy sometimes does not help.
The most common disorder reported after being in jail for an extended amount of time was Post Incarceration Syndrome (Gorski). Post Incarceration Syndrome can be defined as “a set of symptoms that are present in many currently incarcerated and recently released prisoners that are caused by being subjected to prolonged incarceration in environments of punishments” (Gorski). It causes the prisoner to have a difficult time connecting and coping with normal daily life. This can be due to the PTSD or antisocial personality traits that the prisoner gains with this disorder (Gorski). It can also cause the victim to become addicted to drugs and alcohol (Gorski). This disorder often causes people to struggle once they are released from prison, causing life on the outside to be a difficult one. This was illustrated in the case where one of the prisoners who suffers from this disorder said, “ It’s not to the point where you want to commit suicide,” he said, “but sometimes, I’m at the point that I’d be wanting to write the judge and say, ‘Just give me the death penalty. Just give me the death penalty, man” (Goode). To add to the problem 73% of prisoners reported chronic depression while 78% said that they felt “emotionally flat” (Goode). Depression is a huge problem in the correctional system because the prisoners often do not receive the care they need. This can also lead to jail suicide and self
I wanted to look more into mental illness within prison walls because this affects me personally. I have a family member who suffers from bipolar disorder and similar to from what I have read in these articles, she has had numerous run ins with the police due to her illness. None of these encounters have resulted in her being arrested and sentenced, but numerous of these run ins have lead to the cops bringing her or suggesting to the family to bring her into the psychiatric centers. Now taking this course I have realized how lucky she is for not being arrested. As we have talked about in class women and hispanics are the the fastest growing population in prisons and she is both as well as having a mental disorder.
Prison brutality, corruption, and escape are illustrated in the movie “The Shawshank Redemption,” as well as a flawed panoptic structure. The movie starts out with the sentencing of innocent Andy
When watching the movie The Shawshank Redemption there are many signs of The Pains of Imprisonment. The Deprivation of Liberty comes to mind when talking about this movie. Andy experiences this when Tommy pleades for him because he knows he is innocent because the guy that killed Andy’s wife and the golf pro told Tommy that he killed them. When the warden of the prison comes up and confronts Tommy about if Andy is innocent he ends up killing Tommy because he does not want Andy to be a free man. Andy did so much for the prison and he could never really get let go he just kept getting thrown in the hole again and again. Another thing that comes to mind is the Deprivation of goods and services. This happens in this movie for the good and the
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
Many people idealized the relevancy of living in a civilized world, where those who break the law are reprimanded in a less traditional sense of punishment in today’s standard. Instead of just doing hard time, programs and services could and should be provided to reform and rehabilitate prisoner. Despite standard beliefs, many individuals in prison are not harden criminals and violent offenders, many of these people suffer mental illness and substance abuse Hoke
The mass media uses prison life as the source for movies and television shows. Over the years there have been many movies written about prison but the most prominent in my mind is Frank Darabont’s, The Shawshank Redemption. Throughout the film there are many examples of the falsities of prison life. There are some elements of truth but they are out weighed by the misconceptions. Numerous prisoners are allowed to walk around the prison and the prison yard with no guards in sight. In actuality there are always guards around, especially on the inside. The prisoner’s movement through the prison is highly restricted.