Essays on Ex-Convict

Great Expectations is a coming of age story written and set in England during the period of the Industrial Revolution. With the endowment of a secret benefactor, the main character, a country orphan named Phillip “Pip” Pirrip, sets out to attain the necessary accoutrements of Victorian gentility; education, money, and social acceptance. The novel exposes the immorality and hypocrisy of the Victorian Era’s socio-economic class system. When viewed through the author’s depiction of prevalent social issues such as child welfare and development, criminal justice, and social mobility, Great Expectations’ is a poignant indictment of the corruptive influence of money on moral ...

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Returning to prison for paroled inmates: Introduction

The prison population in the United has steadily risen over the past three decades. Since 2008, the prison population has slowly been decreasing; however, as of 2012, there were still more than 2 million confined in US jails and prisons. The report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) aver that since 1990, more than 590,000 convicts are discharged yearly from the correctional system in the Federal and state jurisdictions, and more than 5 million former inmates are under community based monitoring programs. It is expected that upon release from prison or community based programs, these will ...

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The conflict between the rights of the victim and that of the defendant has elicited a lot of problems in the course of administering justice. The law covers both the defendant and the victim’s rights, but if the rights of the victim and defendant result in a conflict, the case judge often has difficult decision to make -after hearing the opinions of each party. According to the law, the judge should apply the principle of ‘presumptio innocentiae’, whereby the victim is always treated as innocent until proven guilty by the rule of law (Groenhuijsen 167). However, according to the nature ...

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The paper reviews the extremely high rates of prison population per capita in the U.S. compared with other countries (e.g. in Europe) and the equally high recidivism rates that see the U.S. prison population growing, whereas other countries are able to bring their inmate numbers down. Evert (2010) – an ex-correctional officer – describes previous mistakes made in U.S. rehabilitation policies and methods, but sees rehabilitation as of utmost importance. Miceli (2009), having analyzed rehabilitation programs in Rhode Island, concludes that under-funding and lack of resources have hampered the effectiveness of rehabilitation to date. Ward et al. (2013) draw comparisons between ...

The convicted felons deserve a second chance in the society as they have already paid for their crimes in the prisons. The sources of this paper focus not only on the proportionality and fairness of punishment, but include the means by which the ex-convicts can be helped to avoid the stigma of their criminal records and blend well in the society. Millions of people in the United States have been imprisoned for conviction crimes and the rates of incarceration have been increasing. Every year, thousands of people all over the United States confront their personal and social challenges that ...

Reginald Rose was born on December 10 in 1920 and died on April 19 in 2002. He was an American screenwriter, and was known for addressing contentious subjects through his work. The Museum of Broadcasting Communications states that Rose was “one of the major players in one of the outstanding television playwrights to emerge from the "Golden Age" of television drama anthology series” (Reginald, 2011). Just like his equally successful peers, such as Paddy Chayefsky, Tad Mosel, and Rod Serling, Rose will be remembered for years to come as a key influence on American television (Reginald, 2011). Rose was ...