In the United States, one in three black males is expected to go to prison at least once within their lifetimes. To understand why the Justice System is failing, we need to look back at Black Codes fr…
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If someone was told to think of three environments where male and female inequalities were present, most people would give the examples of children and professional sports, the office place and the bu…
Barno et al. (2020) conducted a study to investigate the impact of Pretrial Assessment and Release Supervision (PARS) Program on the release rates and the possibility of FTA (Failure to Appear) among …
Oxford Dictionary defines dehumanization as: a deprivation of positive human qualities; "brutal management methods and fear can dehumanize people". Solitary confinement is a dehumanizing restraint tha…
How can solitary confinement be so great for some people, but the worst thing to others? Solitary confinement has been around for a few centuries and is still in use today. It is used for highly super…
The word "convicted criminal" paints a picture in many peoples' minds of a psychotic murderer who has done a horrific crime as depicted in the movies. One of the biggest problems in society is the sup…
In the novella "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption" written by Stephen King, the two main characters exemplify qualities which are beneficial to the other prisoners at Shawshank State Peniten…
The United States has a prison problem that came about during the "war on drugs" in the 1970s. People were being arrested left and right, now it's come to bite the U.S. in the butt. The prison system …