The video is actually inspiring to the people of american community and whoever is watching this rise a question on his mind on how is this happening and why.This video might change minds of alot of people in committing clime in that the government still have a place to whoever committing any clime. the population as it is said i very high 6.9 is higher number to be in prison. some of this people have families that are left home struggling for the living. Drug crime is becoming more popular in united states at least large number of people are taken to jail in drug related crimes and most of them are young generations. To my opinion like she said its better to eliminate some of the prisoners from prison and nonviolent crime makers to reduce the number of population in prisons. in the other hand by doing this the federal and state will save the resources to other institutional other than spending it to mass population of people in jail.Also the point of locking the immigrants for certain period of time before deportation this is waste of time and money. instead of them staying in prison or jail that long its better for them to be released and go back to their countries on the other hand the country saves money from keeping them in prison. another question that comes to my mind when i was watching this video was, why are so many people are locked up for drug crime? According to my understanding the answer has alot to do with federal mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. judges are maybe supposed to do minimum sentencing to drug offender either give large fines or fined to probation instead of imprisoned for 5 to 20 years. The definition of sanity is doing the same thing time and again,yet expecting a different outcome. California has done the same thing with drug users for decades, while wasting billions of dollars and wrecking lives in process. Felony sentences for simple drug possession is overkill. furthermore, it is not deterrent,and like so many of the factor correction system, this felonies disproportionately impact communities of color. GUSII-789
I agree this video is inspiring idea, the idea of eliminate non violating offenses is finally making it's way around as Illinois as sentences currently being reduced by the new way of laws just passed by legislation in our state. This will change our model and as we have more success in our state as they have in other nations in the world this will change many states, as other states see the success of this method. The deportation is a waste as we have these individuals in prisons for years paying tax dollars for individuals that we deport to other countries. eagle789
This video talk about how the United States does incarceration. We, the US, do it the most in the world. We are second to none and we know the reasons why. The video explained several things but I also learned from my class. 6.9 million in the Unites States’ correctional system and with such a high number, we as a country and as a people are affected. We are affected economically and emotionally. The cost of mass incarceration has been an economic burden on the United States for years and it has definitely not gotten any better, especially with the something like mass incarceration. It is in the name of the concept. Mass meaning a larger number. Each and every one of those incarcerated cost a very large amount to house and feed. This burden is placed on the taxpayer, the state, and the government. This is all money we do not need to be putting there. We could have put this money into things like s schooling, infrastructure, medical studies, etc. A large amount of these people do not even need to be there for that are serving sentences for trivial things that are not as bad or do not need a sentence that long or tough. Charges like non-violent drug abuse and distribution, those who have gotten detained for homelessness, mental illness, etc. These are all charges that can be very serious in the eyes of the law , but upon pondering the concepts, are not really that bad and can be fixed within those people. Rehabilitation seems like a better option for these offenders than a sentence that burdens the criminals, the families of the criminals, and the economic burden on the people. These are things that we need to address and fix, the sooner we do it, the better off everyone affected will be. –TheMarshall789
An important statement made during the interview of this show stated that, the way our criminal justice use to work is that whenever someone use to violate a community norm they would put this in something that would resemble today like a current jail, instead of today’s system where we would lock up this individual for long periods of time the community would come together and come up with a creative solution in order to help or prevent this individual from offending once again. When this video mentions the justice system for places outside of the U.S this is interesting for the victim centered approach to justice as this idea focusing on restoring the victim for the crime that was committed getting them back to their former pre-victim state rather than focusing on the punishment of the offender. The interview made a clear point stating that by having both a civil and a criminal court we are establishing as a society that the focus of our system shouldn’t focus on the violation of state laws but the violation of the victim and restoring the victim to the rightful state prelanding this is a better approach as the offender is learning the personal effect that their crimes had on the victim. A statement made that was extremely eye opening was that for some offenders who commit crimes to the extent that they are punished for most of the time before committing a criminal act they’re not aware of the extent that they are punished for under the law for committing the act. Another point that was made is that the prison system in the United States was a clean way of dealing with crime this approach came from the idea that human beings can be fixed after coming into these systems in order to be better individuals in today’s societies. eagle789
This video really helped me to understand how different countries throughout the world view criminals and how each one of them carries out the consequences for them. For example, some countries use actual physical force like punching or throwing things at the accused to punish them for committing certain crimes. Other countries already have the exact prison time for specific crimes set. If someone stole a car, let's say the amount of time in prison would be 5 years. Regardless of the person, the action of stealing a car results in 5 years in prison, no question. The action of murder may result in an automatic 25 years in prison, every crime has a set, specific amount of time that comes along with it that has to be served in prison. Other countries have adopted the method of restorative justice. With this method, no punishment is given out or has to be served by the offender. This is entirely community based and has both the victim and the offender workout their problems without any violence or punishment. One thing I learned from the video was that other countries like and are beginning to adopt the U.S.'s idea of super-max prisons. This means that these countries are building extremely expensive, gigantic prisons that house around 200 of some of the most dangerous inmates. Not only that, but these prisons do not focus on rehab at all. Nearly 23 out of 24 hours in the day, each inmate will be alone and not receive any help for their problems. This is not necessarily a good idea to bring these super-max prisons to other countries because the thought that punishment is key, and rehab is a small option will begin to spread throughout the world, leaving a majority of the prisoners virtually helpless. -Fozz789
The video was great! The U.S. is all about incarcerations. We lock people in prisons because that’s what the correctional system is only good at. I think they know, and yet they don’t do anything about because the correctional system doesn’t want to wrong and be looked like fools. Some of the people, who are getting locked up for a dime of marijuana or whatever, are sentenced for several years. Half of those people are probably not bad people, they probably only committed a dumb mistake. The U.S. is the worst one globally. I believe that the United States could be consider a role model to other countries, aren’t doing that. Instead other countries are adapting to the U.S. system by building even bigger prisons. Believing that this will solve all issues and everyone is happy. Whatever happened to rehabilitating people? I am self-aware that it cost money, by helping these ‘so called prisoners’ they don’t have to come back to prison, they can be part of society, and our prisons would be little less empty each year. It only benefits prisons? Depending on the crime, people are just getting locked up for carious years. In other countries, is highly likely becoming worse than the United States. These ‘so called prisoners’ are being punished, and being looked in disgust, and being treated inhuman, and its completely unprofessional. The U.S. has a lot to do, if they really want the successes to a much better habit by helping these people being put in prisons. This correlates with immigration as well, they as well are bing locked up for several years for like 10 years or so, and than being sent back to their country. These immigrate who came for a better life, only want to be with their family and live in peace. But no, the U.S. has to treat them like dogs, like animals, because the U.S. wants to show off to the world to prove whose the top dog. Very unprofessional manner to handle the situation, and its not called improving, but punishing individuals for the correctional system own benefit. Not very helpful! I am kind of disappointed how everything is turning out to be, and kind of scared for out future because I am starting to be convince that it can only get worse since I am not seeing any improvement in out correctional system. - LILPUMP789
The video was great! How different countries throughout the world view criminals and how each one of them carries out the consequences for them. A few example, some countries use actual physical force like punching or throwing things at the accused to punish them for committing certain crimes. Other countries already have the exact prison time for specific crimes set. If someone stole a car, let's say the amount of time in prison would be 3 years. Regardless of the person, the action of stealing a car results in 3 years in prison, no questions asked. Then the action of murder may result in an automatic 25 years in prison, so every crime has a set, specific amount of time that comes along with it that has to be served in jail or prison. Some of the other countries have adopted the method of restorative justice. With this method, punishment is given out or has to be served by the offender. This is entirely community based and has both the victim and the offender workout their problems without any violence or punishment. For instance the offender would have to clean up walls around the community for graffiti. I learned on cool thing from the video was that other countries like the idea of super max prisons that the U.S. came up with and want to adopt it in to there own way of use. This means that these countries are building extremely expensive, gigantic prisons that house around 200 of some of the most dangerous inmates. Not only that, but these prisons do not focus on rehab at all. 23 out of 24 hours in the day, each inmate will be alone and not receive any help for their problems. This is not necessarily a good idea to bring these super-max prisons to other countries because the thought that punishment is key, and rehab is a small option will begin to spread throughout the world, leaving a majority of the prisoners virtually helpless. The U.S. is all about incarcerations. We lock people in prisons because that’s what the correctional system is only good at, and thats because the U.S. does not fund the prison system like they should not only incarcerating them but rehabilitating the along with it trying to make them produce members of society. JeepGuy789
Before I watched this video I was always told something similar when there was a threat whether it was a shooter or a violent person where I was. After I watched this video I came to realize there are other things I should do before I do what I was always told to do. If there would ever be a incient like a active shooter I think I would panic and try to remember what the video has said to do. I never knew that running would be the first thing to do. I always use to think that hiding and making sure the intruder could not get into the area where you were hiding. In the video when they started to barricade the door I noticed a student put his belt on the top part of the door to keep it from opening. I thought that was a very smart move to keep the intruder out of the room. Toward the end of the video when the gentleman stated what you should do now when you walk into a building room or just walking around the school was very true. I feel like this video was very informative and it showed what you should do because many people do not believe things like that will happen where they go to school. -jw789
The word correction basically means to correct people behaviour and then let them go about their ways. The united states though, has turned it into not correction it but just punishing them and keeping them in prison without helping them. They started to come down hard in the early 2000’s on drugs and sentencing, like the video said. This did nothing but overpopulate the prisons and they did nothing to rehabilitate them. If you look at other countries, they are starting to follow our footsteps a little bit and crack down on drugs a lot harder. They were almost forced into this because the U.S. needed everyone else to kind of support them in this war on drugs. Other countries also loved the way we incarcerated people because they saw it as a human and justice way of doing things. The way they saw it, the video gave the example of it being a human factory were these people would go to get fixed and change. It just seemed very appealing to other countries. They looked at it as though America ad it all figured out, when in reality we were having a problem with incarcerating way to many people for things that should not have even been a problem. The whole point of coming down harder on drugs was to solve the epidemic of it. Instead what it did was catch all the small guys that were just buying personal drugs, and the big guys that were running to operation did not get caught. One thing I thought was odd about a type of “open prison” in another country. It lets the prisoners come and go as they please on weekends but then they come back at night. This does not really settle well with me. Some of the people who have done bad murders or something could be coming and going as they please. Maybe they have restrictions on who is allowed this privilege, but it just seems kind of odd to have that happen. Overall I think this video has good information and gave a little different perspective. - ST789
The first thing that kind of stood out to me was the fact that this video even gives a certain history behind how the modern criminal justice system came about. In very early times they were still jail cells or holding cells however, these were only used until the community figured out what to do with the offender. Granted these things weren’t always humane but people didn’t just sit in jail cells. In the 19th century in Europe people started talking about making prison the punishment of a crime rather than capital punishment for example. That was when the person start resembling what they look like today. American then adopted the same principles from Europe as we begin to grow as a nation. I thought it was interesting that in the video they referred to the thought that in the 19th century prisons were in a tent for many nations to become more evolved. Also early sentencing in America was often influenced by religion in the fact that they would sevens offenders and give them a Bible and the sentence would be however long it would take them to repent for their sins. Another thing that really stood out to me was that man western civilization in General were doing more of community-based rehabilitation or retribution. I thought that was very interesting because people in western civilization we have always thought that we were more civilized and had better quality of life and give people more freedoms. The irony however is that we were putting people away instead of them making amends with the community or getting them help. This video of me was interesting mainly because I have never really thought about what other corrections sisters other countries have or even thought about the history of how we got our modern correction systems. -RHB789
Corrections should be about correcting those who have made mistakes within their lives and committed crimes, and we should be committed to helping fix their mistakes and making them prepared to thrive in the real world. The United States, however, has twisted this to point where we are just imprisoning people instead of helping them to become better after they have committed crimes and have done things that our country has deemed illegal. We have the highest incarceration rates in the world even though our crime rates have been decreasing for the last 25 years. It is pretty insane to think that even though our crime rates have been decreasing, the amount of people that we stick behind bars is steadily increasing. This was mainly caused by get tough on crime campaign, where w would imprison anyone for committing very small and stupid crimes, such as possessing a small amount of weed for example. This movement spiked our incarceration rates by a ridiculous amount. It has also contributed to a bigger issue, which is privately-owned prisons who’s only real goal is to make money off of incarcerating more and more individuals. Because prisons like private prisons are paid to house individuals that will not fit within the crowded state prisons, they often do not focus at all on rehabilitating inmates, solely so that they do not improve socially and will revert back to crime and get imprisoned again, thus making more money for the people who own these private prisons. Not to mention that this also puts a financial burden on us, the taxpayers, because paying to house inmates is paid for with our tax dollars. It costs roughly about $50,000 to house one inmate for a year, this number is astounding and quite high. It places a very big burden on the normal citizen. Pack789
I also agree that correctional facilities should be separate from prisons, but I think that most people should either go to one or the other instead of both. Punishing those who commit crimes because of mental illnesses and substance dependencies does not accomplish anything and is a further waste of time and resources. I think that these people should be rehabilitated as soon as possible and reintegrated into society after being rehabilitated. I do however believe that punishment facilities should be set up for people who choose crime in the absence of mitigating circumstances. People like Bernie Madoff and Jordan Belfort are not violent criminals or beyond controlling their actions. These people selfishly choose to hurt other people financially in order to better themselves. If these people were only sentenced to a correctional facility, there would not exist a proper incentive not to engage in criminal behavior. In short criminals should either be punished or treated not punished then treated.
The topics addressed in this video are very important. It is necessary to view the United States criminal justice system on a global level in order to see both aspects in which we are ahead of other nations and more importantly, aspects we are behind. In many countries, criminals are subjected to physical pain and humiliation. Neither of these treatments are humane or productive as they do not right any wrongs or decrease the likelihood of further wrongs being commited. Restorative justice is another idea discussed heavily in the video. Restorative justice is the attempt to cure the criminally insane instead of distributing punishment. Restorative justice is only appropriate when the aggressor is both criminally insane and curable. If the aggressor is not criminally insane, treatment would do very little for him or her as that which is being treated is not the cause of the aggression. If the aggressor is not curable, or is so criminally insane that it would not be responsible to reintegrate him or her into society, restorative justice also has little place. The video also pointed out the difference between civil and criminal court. In a civil court, a plaintiff makes the case the defendant has wronged him or her in such a way that necessitates a financial payout. People who choose to wrong others in the absence of criminal insanity should be subject to both criminal court payouts and or prison time. The punishments would deter masses from committing such crimes, provide consequences to transgressors, and in some instances provide relief to victims. While it is certainly apparent that the criminally insane cannot fully control their actions, it can still be irresponsible to allow them to reenter society. Pedophiles and Psychopaths are examples of the individuals to whom I refer. People like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are better off being kept in detainment as risk of innocent people being murdered outweighs the reward of them regaining their freedom. The detainment of these individuals is also well worth the taxpayer money that it costs. The video also covers how the United States is an example to other countries. It mentions that other countries have begun to erect supermax prisons likely after being influenced by the United States. While I do not necessarily believe that the United States necessarily has the responsibility to set a good example for other nations, I do believe that improvements the US makes to its justice system could cause similar improvements globally. I believe that other countries may have practices in place from which the United States would be wise to learn. Conversely, some countries show how much worse the justice system could be. I also believe that a justice system should not only give one type of punishment as different crimes and different criminals warrant different responses. -Rudedogg789
The video about incarceration was truly interesting. It helped to display and inform how various countries internationally view and deal with criminals. In one country, a criminal may be sent to seven years in prison for an act he committed. In other countries, some criminal consequences involve physical violence. For example, some crimes in middle eastern countries come with the consequence of a horrific and painful death. An instance of this is a unfaithful woman in that location of the world. While this may not constitute as an actual crime in the US, in Iraq the woman would be beat to death for her crime. In North Korea, you may see someone executed by a firing squad for speaking their opinion. Some countries have set prison terms for specific crimes. For example, just say theft results in 6 years and murder results in 25 years in prison. That is the set term for the crime regardless of the person or their track record. It is also seen in the video that some criminals can be let off the hook in a way with no actual punishment. It is known as a form of restorative justice, where the accused and the victim work out their differences with lack of violence and true punishment. Lastly, many countries have taken a liking to the US idea of max prison systems. Personally, I do not feel this is a good idea. The concept of prison is to rehabilitate inmates. To nobody’s surprise, the prison systems of today do not rehabilitate inmates. Instead, inmates are exposed to violence and brutality. If the prison system did not result in the fear of losing life, then yes it would be successful operation, but it is not. Also, many of the wrong people are incarcerated and filling the jail cells. Why should taxpayer money go towards the fact that a twenty year old kid got locked up for selling weed? Marijuana dealers and distributors get more time than murderers and rapists in some occasions, and that is wrong. The federal prison system is flawed, and perhaps one day this problem may be fixed. Hollywood789
The video is actually inspiring to the people of american community and whoever is watching this rise a question on his mind on how is this happening and why.This video might change minds of alot of people in committing clime in that the government still have a place to whoever committing any clime. the population as it is said i very high 6.9 is higher number to be in prison. some of this people have families that are left home struggling for the living. Drug crime is becoming more popular in united states at least large number of people are taken to jail in drug related crimes and most of them are young generations. To my opinion like she said its better to eliminate some of the prisoners from prison and nonviolent crime makers to reduce the number of population in prisons. in the other hand by doing this the federal and state will save the resources to other institutional other than spending it to mass population of people in jail.Also the point of locking the immigrants for certain period of time before deportation this is waste of time and money. instead of them staying in prison or jail that long its better for them to be released and go back to their countries on the other hand the country saves money from keeping them in prison. another question that comes to my mind when i was watching this video was, why are so many people are locked up for drug crime? According to my understanding the answer has alot to do with federal mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. judges are maybe supposed to do minimum sentencing to drug offender either give large fines or fined to probation instead of imprisoned for 5 to 20 years. The definition of sanity is doing the same thing time and again,yet expecting a different outcome. California has done the same thing with drug users for decades, while wasting billions of dollars and wrecking lives in process. Felony sentences for simple drug possession is overkill. furthermore, it is not deterrent,and like so many of the factor correction system, this felonies disproportionately impact communities of color. GUSII-789
ReplyDeleteI agree this video is inspiring idea, the idea of eliminate non violating offenses is finally making it's way around as Illinois as sentences currently being reduced by the new way of laws just passed by legislation in our state. This will change our model and as we have more success in our state as they have in other nations in the world this will change many states, as other states see the success of this method. The deportation is a waste as we have these individuals in prisons for years paying tax dollars for individuals that we deport to other countries. eagle789
DeleteThis video talk about how the United States does incarceration. We, the US, do it the most in the world. We are second to none and we know the reasons why. The video explained several things but I also learned from my class. 6.9 million in the Unites States’ correctional system and with such a high number, we as a country and as a people are affected. We are affected economically and emotionally. The cost of mass incarceration has been an economic burden on the United States for years and it has definitely not gotten any better, especially with the something like mass incarceration. It is in the name of the concept. Mass meaning a larger number. Each and every one of those incarcerated cost a very large amount to house and feed. This burden is placed on the taxpayer, the state, and the government. This is all money we do not need to be putting there. We could have put this money into things like s schooling, infrastructure, medical studies, etc. A large amount of these people do not even need to be there for that are serving sentences for trivial things that are not as bad or do not need a sentence that long or tough. Charges like non-violent drug abuse and distribution, those who have gotten detained for homelessness, mental illness, etc. These are all charges that can be very serious in the eyes of the law , but upon pondering the concepts, are not really that bad and can be fixed within those people. Rehabilitation seems like a better option for these offenders than a sentence that burdens the criminals, the families of the criminals, and the economic burden on the people. These are things that we need to address and fix, the sooner we do it, the better off everyone affected will be. –TheMarshall789
ReplyDeleteAn important statement made during the interview of this show stated that, the way our criminal justice use to work is that whenever someone use to violate a community norm they would put this in something that would resemble today like a current jail, instead of today’s system where we would lock up this individual for long periods of time the community would come together and come up with a creative solution in order to help or prevent this individual from offending once again. When this video mentions the justice system for places outside of the U.S this is interesting for the victim centered approach to justice as this idea focusing on restoring the victim for the crime that was committed getting them back to their former pre-victim state rather than focusing on the punishment of the offender. The interview made a clear point stating that by having both a civil and a criminal court we are establishing as a society that the focus of our system shouldn’t focus on the violation of state laws but the violation of the victim and restoring the victim to the rightful state prelanding this is a better approach as the offender is learning the personal effect that their crimes had on the victim. A statement made that was extremely eye opening was that for some offenders who commit crimes to the extent that they are punished for most of the time before committing a criminal act they’re not aware of the extent that they are punished for under the law for committing the act. Another point that was made is that the prison system in the United States was a clean way of dealing with crime this approach came from the idea that human beings can be fixed after coming into these systems in order to be better individuals in today’s societies.
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This video really helped me to understand how different countries throughout the world view criminals and how each one of them carries out the consequences for them. For example, some countries use actual physical force like punching or throwing things at the accused to punish them for committing certain crimes. Other countries already have the exact prison time for specific crimes set. If someone stole a car, let's say the amount of time in prison would be 5 years. Regardless of the person, the action of stealing a car results in 5 years in prison, no question. The action of murder may result in an automatic 25 years in prison, every crime has a set, specific amount of time that comes along with it that has to be served in prison. Other countries have adopted the method of restorative justice. With this method, no punishment is given out or has to be served by the offender. This is entirely community based and has both the victim and the offender workout their problems without any violence or punishment. One thing I learned from the video was that other countries like and are beginning to adopt the U.S.'s idea of super-max prisons. This means that these countries are building extremely expensive, gigantic prisons that house around 200 of some of the most dangerous inmates. Not only that, but these prisons do not focus on rehab at all. Nearly 23 out of 24 hours in the day, each inmate will be alone and not receive any help for their problems. This is not necessarily a good idea to bring these super-max prisons to other countries because the thought that punishment is key, and rehab is a small option will begin to spread throughout the world, leaving a majority of the prisoners virtually helpless.
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The video was great! The U.S. is all about incarcerations. We lock people in prisons because that’s what the correctional system is only good at. I think they know, and yet they don’t do anything about because the correctional system doesn’t want to wrong and be looked like fools. Some of the people, who are getting locked up for a dime of marijuana or whatever, are sentenced for several years. Half of those people are probably not bad people, they probably only committed a dumb mistake. The U.S. is the worst one globally. I believe that the United States could be consider a role model to other countries, aren’t doing that. Instead other countries are adapting to the U.S. system by building even bigger prisons. Believing that this will solve all issues and everyone is happy. Whatever happened to rehabilitating people? I am self-aware that it cost money, by helping these ‘so called prisoners’ they don’t have to come back to prison, they can be part of society, and our prisons would be little less empty each year. It only benefits prisons? Depending on the crime, people are just getting locked up for carious years. In other countries, is highly likely becoming worse than the United States. These ‘so called prisoners’ are being punished, and being looked in disgust, and being treated inhuman, and its completely unprofessional. The U.S. has a lot to do, if they really want the successes to a much better habit by helping these people being put in prisons. This correlates with immigration as well, they as well are bing locked up for several years for like 10 years or so, and than being sent back to their country. These immigrate who came for a better life, only want to be with their family and live in peace. But no, the U.S. has to treat them like dogs, like animals, because the U.S. wants to show off to the world to prove whose the top dog. Very unprofessional manner to handle the situation, and its not called improving, but punishing individuals for the correctional system own benefit. Not very helpful! I am kind of disappointed how everything is turning out to be, and kind of scared for out future because I am starting to be convince that it can only get worse since I am not seeing any improvement in out correctional system. - LILPUMP789
ReplyDeleteThe video was great! How different countries throughout the world view criminals and how each one of them carries out the consequences for them. A few example, some countries use actual physical force like punching or throwing things at the accused to punish them for committing certain crimes. Other countries already have the exact prison time for specific crimes set. If someone stole a car, let's say the amount of time in prison would be 3 years. Regardless of the person, the action of stealing a car results in 3 years in prison, no questions asked. Then the action of murder may result in an automatic 25 years in prison, so every crime has a set, specific amount of time that comes along with it that has to be served in jail or prison. Some of the other countries have adopted the method of restorative justice. With this method, punishment is given out or has to be served by the offender. This is entirely community based and has both the victim and the offender workout their problems without any violence or punishment. For instance the offender would have to clean up walls around the community for graffiti. I learned on cool thing from the video was that other countries like the idea of super max prisons that the U.S. came up with and want to adopt it in to there own way of use. This means that these countries are building extremely expensive, gigantic prisons that house around 200 of some of the most dangerous inmates. Not only that, but these prisons do not focus on rehab at all. 23 out of 24 hours in the day, each inmate will be alone and not receive any help for their problems. This is not necessarily a good idea to bring these super-max prisons to other countries because the thought that punishment is key, and rehab is a small option will begin to spread throughout the world, leaving a majority of the prisoners virtually helpless. The U.S. is all about incarcerations. We lock people in prisons because that’s what the correctional system is only good at, and thats because the U.S. does not fund the prison system like they should not only incarcerating them but rehabilitating the along with it trying to make them produce members of society. JeepGuy789
ReplyDeleteBefore I watched this video I was always told something similar when there was a threat whether it was a shooter or a violent person where I was. After I watched this video I came to realize there are other things I should do before I do what I was always told to do. If there would ever be a incient like a active shooter I think I would panic and try to remember what the video has said to do. I never knew that running would be the first thing to do. I always use to think that hiding and making sure the intruder could not get into the area where you were hiding. In the video when they started to barricade the door I noticed a student put his belt on the top part of the door to keep it from opening. I thought that was a very smart move to keep the intruder out of the room. Toward the end of the video when the gentleman stated what you should do now when you walk into a building room or just walking around the school was very true. I feel like this video was very informative and it showed what you should do because many people do not believe things like that will happen where they go to school.
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The word correction basically means to correct people behaviour and then let them go about their ways. The united states though, has turned it into not correction it but just punishing them and keeping them in prison without helping them. They started to come down hard in the early 2000’s on drugs and sentencing, like the video said. This did nothing but overpopulate the prisons and they did nothing to rehabilitate them. If you look at other countries, they are starting to follow our footsteps a little bit and crack down on drugs a lot harder. They were almost forced into this because the U.S. needed everyone else to kind of support them in this war on drugs. Other countries also loved the way we incarcerated people because they saw it as a human and justice way of doing things. The way they saw it, the video gave the example of it being a human factory were these people would go to get fixed and change. It just seemed very appealing to other countries. They looked at it as though America ad it all figured out, when in reality we were having a problem with incarcerating way to many people for things that should not have even been a problem. The whole point of coming down harder on drugs was to solve the epidemic of it. Instead what it did was catch all the small guys that were just buying personal drugs, and the big guys that were running to operation did not get caught. One thing I thought was odd about a type of “open prison” in another country. It lets the prisoners come and go as they please on weekends but then they come back at night. This does not really settle well with me. Some of the people who have done bad murders or something could be coming and going as they please. Maybe they have restrictions on who is allowed this privilege, but it just seems kind of odd to have that happen. Overall I think this video has good information and gave a little different perspective.
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The first thing that kind of stood out to me was the fact that this video even gives a certain history behind how the modern criminal justice system came about. In very early times they were still jail cells or holding cells however, these were only used until the community figured out what to do with the offender. Granted these things weren’t always humane but people didn’t just sit in jail cells. In the 19th century in Europe people started talking about making prison the punishment of a crime rather than capital punishment for example. That was when the person start resembling what they look like today. American then adopted the same principles from Europe as we begin to grow as a nation. I thought it was interesting that in the video they referred to the thought that in the 19th century prisons were in a tent for many nations to become more evolved. Also early sentencing in America was often influenced by religion in the fact that they would sevens offenders and give them a Bible and the sentence would be however long it would take them to repent for their sins. Another thing that really stood out to me was that man western civilization in General were doing more of community-based rehabilitation or retribution. I thought that was very interesting because people in western civilization we have always thought that we were more civilized and had better quality of life and give people more freedoms. The irony however is that we were putting people away instead of them making amends with the community or getting them help. This video of me was interesting mainly because I have never really thought about what other corrections sisters other countries have or even thought about the history of how we got our modern correction systems.
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Corrections should be about correcting those who have made mistakes within their lives and committed crimes, and we should be committed to helping fix their mistakes and making them prepared to thrive in the real world. The United States, however, has twisted this to point where we are just imprisoning people instead of helping them to become better after they have committed crimes and have done things that our country has deemed illegal. We have the highest incarceration rates in the world even though our crime rates have been decreasing for the last 25 years. It is pretty insane to think that even though our crime rates have been decreasing, the amount of people that we stick behind bars is steadily increasing. This was mainly caused by get tough on crime campaign, where w would imprison anyone for committing very small and stupid crimes, such as possessing a small amount of weed for example. This movement spiked our incarceration rates by a ridiculous amount. It has also contributed to a bigger issue, which is privately-owned prisons who’s only real goal is to make money off of incarcerating more and more individuals. Because prisons like private prisons are paid to house individuals that will not fit within the crowded state prisons, they often do not focus at all on rehabilitating inmates, solely so that they do not improve socially and will revert back to crime and get imprisoned again, thus making more money for the people who own these private prisons. Not to mention that this also puts a financial burden on us, the taxpayers, because paying to house inmates is paid for with our tax dollars. It costs roughly about $50,000 to house one inmate for a year, this number is astounding and quite high. It places a very big burden on the normal citizen. Pack789
ReplyDeleteI also agree that correctional facilities should be separate from prisons, but I think that most people should either go to one or the other instead of both. Punishing those who commit crimes because of mental illnesses and substance dependencies does not accomplish anything and is a further waste of time and resources. I think that these people should be rehabilitated as soon as possible and reintegrated into society after being rehabilitated. I do however believe that punishment facilities should be set up for people who choose crime in the absence of mitigating circumstances. People like Bernie Madoff and Jordan Belfort are not violent criminals or beyond controlling their actions. These people selfishly choose to hurt other people financially in order to better themselves. If these people were only sentenced to a correctional facility, there would not exist a proper incentive not to engage in criminal behavior. In short criminals should either be punished or treated not punished then treated.
ReplyDeleteThe topics addressed in this video are very important. It is necessary to view the United States criminal justice system on a global level in order to see both aspects in which we are ahead of other nations and more importantly, aspects we are behind. In many countries, criminals are subjected to physical pain and humiliation. Neither of these treatments are humane or productive as they do not right any wrongs or decrease the likelihood of further wrongs being commited.
Restorative justice is another idea discussed heavily in the video. Restorative justice is the attempt to cure the criminally insane instead of distributing punishment. Restorative justice is only appropriate when the aggressor is both criminally insane and curable. If the aggressor is not criminally insane, treatment would do very little for him or her as that which is being treated is not the cause of the aggression. If the aggressor is not curable, or is so criminally insane that it would not be responsible to reintegrate him or her into society, restorative justice also has little place. The video also pointed out the difference between civil and criminal court. In a civil court, a plaintiff makes the case the defendant has wronged him or her in such a way that necessitates a financial payout.
People who choose to wrong others in the absence of criminal insanity should be subject to both criminal court payouts and or prison time. The punishments would deter masses from committing such crimes, provide consequences to transgressors, and in some instances provide relief to victims.
While it is certainly apparent that the criminally insane cannot fully control their actions, it can still be irresponsible to allow them to reenter society. Pedophiles and Psychopaths are examples of the individuals to whom I refer. People like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are better off being kept in detainment as risk of innocent people being murdered outweighs the reward of them regaining their freedom. The detainment of these individuals is also well worth the taxpayer money that it costs.
The video also covers how the United States is an example to other countries. It mentions that other countries have begun to erect supermax prisons likely after being influenced by the United States. While I do not necessarily believe that the United States necessarily has the responsibility to set a good example for other nations, I do believe that improvements the US makes to its justice system could cause similar improvements globally.
I believe that other countries may have practices in place from which the United States would be wise to learn. Conversely, some countries show how much worse the justice system could be. I also believe that a justice system should not only give one type of punishment as different crimes and different criminals warrant different responses. -Rudedogg789
The video about incarceration was truly interesting. It helped to display and inform how various countries internationally view and deal with criminals. In one country, a criminal may be sent to seven years in prison for an act he committed. In other countries, some criminal consequences involve physical violence. For example, some crimes in middle eastern countries come with the consequence of a horrific and painful death. An instance of this is a unfaithful woman in that location of the world. While this may not constitute as an actual crime in the US, in Iraq the woman would be beat to death for her crime. In North Korea, you may see someone executed by a firing squad for speaking their opinion. Some countries have set prison terms for specific crimes. For example, just say theft results in 6 years and murder results in 25 years in prison. That is the set term for the crime regardless of the person or their track record. It is also seen in the video that some criminals can be let off the hook in a way with no actual punishment. It is known as a form of restorative justice, where the accused and the victim work out their differences with lack of violence and true punishment. Lastly, many countries have taken a liking to the US idea of max prison systems. Personally, I do not feel this is a good idea. The concept of prison is to rehabilitate inmates. To nobody’s surprise, the prison systems of today do not rehabilitate inmates. Instead, inmates are exposed to violence and brutality. If the prison system did not result in the fear of losing life, then yes it would be successful operation, but it is not. Also, many of the wrong people are incarcerated and filling the jail cells. Why should taxpayer money go towards the fact that a twenty year old kid got locked up for selling weed? Marijuana dealers and distributors get more time than murderers and rapists in some occasions, and that is wrong. The federal prison system is flawed, and perhaps one day this problem may be fixed.
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