Being incarcerated for as long as 10 years can definitely have an effect on your life, especially when leaving the prison. If I was incarcerated for ten years and was recently let out on parole, I feel like the biggest obstacle I would face would be acceptance back into society. For example, like finding jobs …
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Prisoner Restrictions
While I definitely agree that inmates shouldn’t have the same amount of rights people do that weren’t convicted of crimes, I do think they should have some. The reason I think so is because it will keep them from going insane while they are incarcerated. We see many videos in class about people not being …
Solitary Confinement
I definitely would disagree with courts not viewing long term solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment. The idea that someone is locked up in a very small area with no contact, no communication for 23 hours a day seems to me as terrible form of punishment. I can see why some inmates may have …
Ear Hustle: Episode 13
I always really like listening to the Ear Hustle podcasts, each episode consist of a completely different story. No matter the story you know it will be interesting. One episode that I recently listened to made me feel all different kinds of emotions. Episode 13 would be most memorable to me, it’s the one about …
Ear Hustle Review
I personally really like the whole idea of Ear Hustle and how interesting the producers make each podcast. It’s beneficial to the listeners because it gives you real life stories from prisoners, where you can feel their emotions by the way they are talking. This is something you can’t really find anywhere else unless you …
Are Transgenders Being Kicked Out Of Prison? Or Are Officals Making The Right Call
Michelle- Lael Norsworthy was charged with second degree murder in 1987, and denied parole each time it was requested since then. So what changed the mind of the judges following Norsworthy long fight for reassignment surgery? Many believe the connection isn’t a coincidence. Reassignment surgery can go to about $20,000, with this being said the …
Delaware’s Prison System
I decided to look up the Department of Corrections for Delaware, being such a small state it only has 4 facilities. The first facility that opened was The Sussex Correctional Institution which opened in 1931. The other institutions are relatively old as well most opening in the 1970s to the late 1980s. Out of the …
Suicides in Jail: A Problematic Part of the Jail System that Needs to Change
O One part of the jail system that may be most problematic and in need of a change to me would be the way they handle suicides, and their preventative strategies. There are more suicides in jails than in prisons or in the general population. Almost half of the suicides occur in the first week …
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How the ADA Helps Inmates in Prison Control Their Addiction
Beth Schwartzapfel wrote an article shown on The Marshall Project called, “When Going to Jail Means Giving up the Meds that Saved your Life.” In this article many cases are brought about individuals who needed certain medications to survive their addictions but weren’t provided them. For example, the first individual they talk about is Geoffrey …
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