lly is. What will happen is, that when these prisoners are released, a lot of them will be much more worst and angry then before they originally went to jail.(White, Andrew. 16) Inside our prison’s walls many atrocities take place. “Terry Fitzsimmons spent nearly a decade in prisons from 1980’s and early 90’s. At first he was incarcerated for petty thievery, but after he killed a fellow inmate in a brawl his sentence was extended and he was placed in secure segregation.”(White, Andrew. !7) Things similar to this are very common occurrences in our prison system. There are many things which we can blame for this. One reason that could explain violence between inmates is, a tremendous problem with overcrowding in most prisons. This hoarding of prisoners intensifies their behavior. “From reports of other innt that involves neither cruelty nor pain but is perceived as an insult. As we continue to dehumanize prisoners we leave them with no will to behave like citizens. The more the government piles on insults like chain gangs and stunbelt, the less chance there is for a restorative process of confession, penance, and forgiveness. Our punishment and control methods need to be seriously checked. “As sentencing laws get tougher and punishment proposals get more vicious, there is a tendency toward a great wave of dehumanization of inmates.”(Hubbell, Webb. 77) This is a sign of a society increasingly out for vengeance rather then justice. “With over one million people behind bars, the United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, after Russia.”(SlamBrouck, Paul. 25) Some experts regard the growing amount of prison violence as a “logical outcome of prisons which on average, are twenty percent over capacity.” This is a cry to get non-violent offenders out of jail and placed unto house arrest or group homes were the offenders only lose t...
