Prison Essays

Everyday that a correctional makes the decision to go to work could be the distinction between life and death. Many people do not realize the unseen dangers lurking behind the stereotypes of the job. Watching over inmates and criminals a person must be ready for anything. At any second throughout …

Prison overcrowding is a major problem in our criminal justice system and it continues to be a hotly debated topic as to how we should address the problem. One of the main reasons our prison systems have a problem with overcrowding is drugs. More specifically, the “war on drugs” started …

Malcolm X and Helen Keller lived in different eras. Both of them fought different battles. How can these two individuals have in anything in common? Though their hardships were totally different, Keller being blind and Malcolm X being imprisoned, they both won their battle with the English language and enjoyed …

People sometimes undergo difficult situations when they are forced to carry out orders by authority. George Orwell’s “A Hanging” is a descriptive essay about capital punishment. The setting of this essay is placed in an early twentieth-century prison in Burma, a country ruled by the British Empire. Considering that George …

Coleridges poem This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison teaches us that through an imaginative journey, you can broaden your mind and spirit. Imaginative journeys arent bounded by physical barriers and obstacles. They allow the power of imagination to achieve mental, spiritual and emotional freedom. Coleridge communicates this idea through the use …

The history of community corrections shows that many changes have occurred in the criminal justice system regarding punishment of offenders. Shortly after the creation of the penitentiary community, many people came to the view that incarceration was not an appropriate response to address all offenders. As a response to this …

The punishment for alcohol related offenses during 1970’s and the early 1980’s was limited to no more than a fine or a night in jail. With so many victims of such a preventable offense, many Canadians were left wondering whether a drunk driver should have the right to still get …

“The Reader”, by Bernhard Schlink is set in postwar Germany and tells the story of fifteen-year-old Michael Berg and his affair with a woman named Hanna, who was twice his age. After some time, she disappears. When Michael next sees Hanna, he is a young law student and she is …

“Measure twice cut once…” is what most carpenters go by, but it can also be used for a guideline for ones life. What I mean is when someone is going to make a decision that is going to affect their life in a big or small way They should think …

Put in the right circumstances, every human being has the potential to be a sadist. In “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, Phillip G. Zimbardo examines how easily people can slip into roles and become sadistic to the people around them, even going so far as to develop a sense of supremacy. …