https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z Criminal Punishment/Rehabilitation en-us 2020-08-27 06:19:26 UTC 2020-08-28 04:14:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701903282 Incarceration rates in the U.S. have been increasing ever since the 1970s. 150 out of 100,000 were prisoners in 1980 while in 2010, 525 out of 100,000 were prisoners.]]> 2020-08-27 06:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701903282 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701911487 Many argue that harsher punishments make it less likely for prisoners to rehabilitate, accounting for the constantly increasing rates of incarceration. Aside from legal punishments, these individuals often have to endure being treated like outcasts by the rest of society.]]> 2020-08-27 06:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701911487 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701915377 Some suggest that more enlightened approaches to criminal punishment may help with recidivism rates (approximately 3/4 of prisoners return to prison within 5 years of release).]]> 2020-08-27 06:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701915377 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701929218 On the topic of how society treats criminals, we often appear to view them as monsters as a way of setting ourselves apart from these individuals. When we take a closer look however, these individuals are fundamentally humans, just like the rest of us. What sets them apart is the fact that they have violated a moral norm/law.]]> 2020-08-27 06:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701929218 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701934911 Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment shows us exactly how oftentimes, the criminal and the victim are not as different as we would like to think. If we are able to view the world in such a manner, perhaps it is possible to lower the incarceration rates in the U.S.]]> 2020-08-27 06:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701934911 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701973029 Norway has been designing prisons in a fashion that allows for those being incarcerated to be treated in a more humane way. In 2013, Norway had a prisoner population of 72 out of 100,000 compared to the U.S. with 716 out of 100,000. U.S. prisons appear to value cost-saving more than the actual design of these prisons.]]> 2020-08-27 07:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701973029 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701977543 As stated by Cooley's looking glass self theory, the way individuals view themselves is determined/shaped by their interactions with society alongside other's perspective on them. ]]> 2020-08-27 07:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701977543 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701990846 Although design can play a factor in creating a humane prison, so do the interactions between the guards and inmates themselves. With this design, guards are forced to observe/interact with inmates face to face rather than from a distance.]]> 2020-08-27 08:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/701990846 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/702982147 Ever since the creation of the nation, the system has inherently been against black people. After the post-Civil War abolition of slavery, governments began scrambling to find ways to assist the declining economy. ]]> 2020-08-27 16:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/702982147 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/703997041 The creation of the 13th Amendment loophole was something that people began turning to as way to make money. The 13th Amendment made it unconstitutional to be held as a slave "except as a punishment for crime". Naturally, politicians and the government began exploiting this loophole, distorting the American perception of black people to be nothing more than criminals. Utilizing the people's fear of crime, governments continued to criminalize black people, associating them with criminality and menace.]]> 2020-08-27 23:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/703997041 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704001097 As seen in many cases, the more you dehumanize a person, the likelier they are to act in such a manner that fits your view of them. I was watching a show and I feel like it did a really good job of depicting this concept. In a specific scene, when an victim of crime is treated and dehumanized in the way a criminal would be, she begins to show signs of harboring ill intent. However, when one of the officers begins treating her kindly without the threat of a weapon, her level of ill intent goes down. This just goes to show how the way we treat criminals really does shape how they act.]]> 2020-08-27 23:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704001097 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704003495 As civil rights movements continued to grow, so did crime rates, making it just that much easier for politicians to link these two things despite it being a spurious correlation. Presidents such as Nixon or Reagan began ordering a "war on crime" which was essentially a war on black political movements, women's rights movements, and gay rights movements. Because of this, mass incarceration began occurring in the 1970's.]]> 2020-08-27 23:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704003495 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704012324 1970: 357,292
1980: 513,900
1990: 1,179,200
2000: 2,015,300
(878,400 of which were black)
2014: 2,300,000
Lifetime Likelihood of Imprisonment: 1 out of 17 are white men]]> 2020-08-27 23:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704012324 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704173295 With the rise of crack cocaine, the inherent discrimination against black people would become clearer and clearer. Crack offenses, which affected the inner-city, would receive harsher punishments than cocaine offenses which were issues primarily in suburban areas. This naturally, made blacks and Latinos a bigger target for these harsh punishments.]]> 2020-08-28 01:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704173295 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704183268 In the U.S. funding for prisons prioritizes quantity over quality. In other words, at the expense of poorly designed, inhumane living conditions, prisons are able to hold a larger capacity. In 1994, the Federal Crime Bill was passed, using $30 billion to expand the prison system. Rather than using this money to try and lower the rate of incarceration, the government chose to make more room for the growing incarceration rates. The reason behind this is quite simple. Private companies and the economy make money off of prisoners. (Prison labor accounts for a large amount of products we may encounter in our daily lives.) ]]> 2020-08-28 01:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704183268 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704185867 Many argue that the reason for overcrowding can be solved by putting prisoners in house arrest with tracking devices on their wrists or ankles provided by private companies that would also manage to benefit off of mass incarceration. However, the issue with this is that American society has refused to acknowledge the wrongdoings that brought them to this point of overcrowded prisons. Rather than fix the problem at its root (the reason as to why the incarceration rates keep growing), American society has chosen to deal with the issues that stem from this problem.]]> 2020-08-28 01:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704185867 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704301787 Humans were not meant to be locked up or put in cages. If we don't treat our pets the way we would treat inmates at a prison, why would we treat a fellow human being like that? Those imprisoned receive little to no rehabilitation for reentering civil society. And once they do get released, these individuals continued to be shunned by the rest of society.]]> 2020-08-28 03:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704301787 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704305103 These individuals may be denied things such as jobs, loans, finances, and even the right to vote for the rest of their life due to a criminal conviction. Regardless of whether or not this individual was proven to be guilty, a criminal conviction still follows a person around for the rest of their life.]]> 2020-08-28 03:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704305103 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704311715 Society has a problem of labeling those with a criminal conviction with their own crime. "We make them their own crime" essentially. We refer to these people as rapists, killers, drug dealers, and so on. By doing this, we have already begun dehumanizing them. Furthermore, by making a person their crime, we make it much easier for them to believe that their crime is the only thing that defines them. Once people start believing something about themselves, they will act accordingly.]]> 2020-08-28 03:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704311715 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704316373 In the past, instead of making drug abuse a mental health issue, society instead chose to make it a criminal issue. Perhaps this is how we should be treating a lot of the crimes today, providing convicted individuals with actual rehabilitation instead of punishment.]]> 2020-08-28 03:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704316373 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704319679 The prison system seems to geared more towards punishment than actual rehabilitation. For example, about 97% of those who are locked up had a plea bargain instead of going on trial. If every individual went to trial, the system would simply shut down. In a desperate attempt to prevent this, the government has established mandatory minimum sentences according to crimes that are not in the control of the judge or jury. Out of fear of these minimum mandatory sentences, many would choose a plea bargain as long as it guaranteed them less time in prison, regardless of whether or not they even committed the crime. ]]> 2020-08-28 03:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704319679 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704329540 The prison system appears to target black/Latino males who are poor. Many of the people sitting in jail/prison are there only for one reason being that they simply are too poor to get out. At some point, the prison system began treating the rich + guilty better than the poor + innocent. The saying that no one is above or below the law is just simply false.]]> 2020-08-28 03:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704329540 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704333646 Our prison systems are a point where it is extremely difficult, impossible even, to question mass incarceration because of how heavily it has been monetized by the government and private companies.]]> 2020-08-28 03:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704333646 1038144 https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704349208 Victim and offender rarely interact each other after the offender is arrested. They are often not given the chance to work things out. The first words an offender hears upon arrest are "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law." This essentially does not allow the offender to apologize out of fear of jeopardizing their case.]]> 2020-08-28 03:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1038144/lpo5vp9p25xjsy5z/wish/704349208