Essays on Prisoner

Introduction

Parole refers to the release of a prisoner after they have completed their prison sentence. It occurs at some point during the imprisonment where most prisoners will be eligible for release on parole. It involves an agreement made by prisoners where they comply with certain conditions given to them before they complete their maximum sentence period. Basically, parole does not mean that prisoners have been set free or that they have completed their sentence, they are still under strict supervision and if they engage in any criminal activity they will be taken back for imprisonment. Parole however differs from an ...

Abstract

A good program for crime prevention must incorporate measures to stop the repetition of the cycle of unsuccessful adaptation by the frequent offenders. This paper will incorporate the many challenges often faced by the ex-prisoners in the course of their adaptation after release from confinement. These challenges may deter their aspirations of becoming law abiding members of the society. The paper will majorly target the aspects concerning the high risk prisoners who have a long track record of criminal involvement. The paper will also address successful crime prevention mechanisms through the consideration of the social reintegration of ex-inmates back into ...

Psychology

Summary The Stanford Prison experiment was a psychological study conducted at Stanford University to determine how becoming a guard or a prisoner in a prison environment affected the behavior of a participant. The rationale of the experiment was to critique the ‘dispositional hypothesis’, which maintained that prisoners and guards behave in typical fashions because of their inherent nature (McGreal, 2013). On August 14, 1971, Zimbardo laid down the ground rules for the guards. He made it clear that the guards could not hit the prisoners. However, they could instill feelings of boredom, frustration amongst the prisoners. The prisoners would be under constant ...

Prisons are perchance the most important instructions, second only to the court, with regards to the judicial system of any nation. Served with the chief duties of rehabilitation and punishment, there are a plethora of programs in use in the prisons to help them meet their mandate. However, it is a common occurrence that a good percentage of released prisoners always get rearrested for similar or variant crimes within three years of release. To this effect, a plethora of programs have always been devised to help in preventing released prisoners from reverting to crime (recidivate) with a good number of measures also taken with ...

CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF PLATO’S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is drawn from his tremendous works on the Republic. It is literally a conversation that takes place between Socrates and Gaucon. The conversation is categorized into three parts. The first section is the scene within the cave. According to Kernan, the second part of the discourse deliberates on the three stages of liberation and the third creates a picture of the prisoner returning to the same cave. The scene in the cave is one of gloom and darkness, with prisoner chained and unable to move around, even their heads could only face one single ...

According to Cooperation Commons (Para 1), prisoner’s dilemma is a situation in which the parties might fail to agree even when it is in the best interests of the two to agree. The term was coined by Melvin Dresher and Merrill Flood who were working at RAND back in 1950. The term prisoner’s dilemma came about because the scenario was formulated from the prison perspective where two prisoners are convicted with no proof of the crime. If they do not cooperate, they both risk having a lesser sentence. However, if any betrays the other, the one who betrays is ...

Abstract

This paper considers the various likely causes of violence and violent behavior within prisons. The causes discussed include overcrowding, boredom, drugs, the gang culture within the prison population, and sexually-originated violence. In addition, the paper discusses two theories that suggest: 1. that the violence can stem simply from the inmate’s psychological reaction to being transported into the restrictive prison environment (the deprivation theory); and: 2. that individual prisoners bring their existing violent nature and characters in with them from their former existence in the community (the importation theory). In addition to discussing the causes of the violence, the ...

Education is a right that is basic to every human being and is a requisite for the individual’s exercise of all other rights available to a person (UNESCO, 2009). It provides many benefits to an individual and usually is the key to a person’s success. Through education, a person can achieve more and can live a brighter future. But if a person commits a crime and gets incarcerated, does he retain this right? This paper will take into consideration the opposing views that several groups take pertaining a prisoner’s right to education by answering the following questions. 1. What is the extent of a person’s ...

Introduction

Human interactions can be just like games. Game theory is an approach that attempts to analyze situations the same way players in a game assess situations. We face many situations, yet we do not have rules on how to handle them. Hence we wonder, what players would do if they were faced with the same situation. In a game, players make quick and strategic decisions that will help their team win. We handle real life situations just like players. The decisions we make affects our outcomes. Since we come in contact with people, game theory establishes how we can strategize with ...

Psychology

Introduction Historically, putting a person into prison means that he or she committed an act in which the law prohibits. Ideally, imprisonment against a law offender is the way to give justice for those who were victimized or just a mere sanction because of their actions. Long ago, imprisonment was a form of punishment for those who did wrong against the society. Prisons were locked up inside the jail and being inflicted with sufferings on their bodies and in some cases, prisoners were tortured to death. However, the imprisonment concepts in our time are in contrast of what the old imprisonment concepts ...

Imagine that you’re a prisoner on death row in China; it’s the day before you’re being executed. A few prison officials bring you into a room and sit you down at a table, with a crying woman on the other side. This woman, they explain to you, is the mother of a child who needs a kidney transplant of he will die. They want to use your kidney after you are executed. Upon first hearing this proposal, you are nervous and uncomfortable – you never agreed to have your organs harvested. However, they put a piece of paper in front of your face with a ...

Individuals on probation or parole find themselves in a rather peculiar situation for even though they are no longer in prison they are nevertheless considered to be still in jail. When a person is released from jail and placed on probation or parole, they are given a manual detailing all the conditions for their probation or parole. The parole officer can then add or eliminate some of these conditions. These must be in writing. Part of the requirements for probation or parole is that the parolee must agree to an absolute waiver of the Fourth Amendment rights, which demands that ...

Literature Review

Individual Effects of Incarceration

Prisons are becoming an increasingly hostile place, which leads prisoners to undergo various psychological changes in order to cope (Haney, 2002). In particular, Haney (2002) posits that prisoners tend to become too dependent on the institutional structure and contingencies that they lose their sense of independence or self-initiative. They also tend to lose their personal value and self-worth. In addition, they tend to become hyper vigilant, suspicious, and distrusting (Haney, 2002). They tend to be too controlling of their emotions, feel alienated, or psychologically distance themselves. They tend to withdraw from other people and to ...

Rehabilitation is defined as something that inspires positive change in someone during their confinement period (Foster 2006). Rehabilitation is seen as a humane and progressive form of punishment that intends to reform a convict to lead a productive life. Rehabilitative theories believe that prison is not the ideal way to achieve corrective behavior of offenders because it seeks to isolate offenders from life’s realities which in essence they should be trying to learn how to cope with. Prisoner imprisonment encompasses drug rehabilitation behavior change and vocational training.

The origin of rehabilitation in the United States goes back to the late 18th ...

A controversial issue of human rights in the United States (US) is the question of whether or not a prisoner is entitled to rights under the Constitution. Presumably, a prisoner in the US has lesser constitutional rights due to criminal charges against him. Part of the punishment a prisoner receives from committing criminal acts is the denial of his freedom through prison detention that lasts depending on the sentence the court has issued. As per initial impression, it would seem that a prisoner has become less than a normal citizen due to his status as a legally detained individual. The fact that a prisoner has severely ...

Should prisoners be given free education?

The history of American prison can be traced back to 1791. This is the year when the first true American prison, Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia was established (Coley & Barton, 2006) The US prisons were established to achieve three main objectives: to promote public security, to enhance prisoner’s reformation and to ensure humanity of the prisoners. Based on the last two objectives, many prisons started offering basic education in the early 1880s. However, it is until the early 1960s when the US prisons started offering post secondary education to the inmates (Coley & Barton, 2006). The federal governments provided ...

Introduction

Capital punishment is one of the longest raging debates regarding punishment of criminals in the criminal justice system. Capital punishment, commonly referred to as the death penalty, is a method of retribution against capital crimes by killing the perpetrator (Mandery, 2011). The death penalty has received severe criticism in recent years from civil rights groups, activists and pro-life campaigners. The main aim of this paper is to consider a variety of methods used to execute criminals, their history, their effectiveness and peripheral matters regarding this issue. The death penalty is one of the oldest recognizable forms of punishment for capital ...

The Boston Photograph’s By Nora Ephron’s Photos of Abu Ghraib

The first amendment to the constitution of the United States had enforced in the year 1791. The amendment imposes certain limitations on congressional legislators' terms of making laws about the established religion and people's right to a free exercise of religion. It, further, asserts prohibition of any laws that condense the freedom of speech or violate the press freedom, hinder a peaceful assembly or prohibit US citizens entering into litigation for a governmental redress of grievances. The first amendment took effect in December 15, 1791 is one of the ten amendments formulating the Bill of rights. The law reference to the ...

Questions

1. What lessons does the reader learn as he travels with Marlow down the Congo River? In Joseph Conrad’s he reader learns the lessons that the line separating “civilization” from “savagery” is much thinner than Marlow suspects in the beginning. The further he goes down the river, the further he moves away from civilization. But while the physical moving away form civilization is obvious, it is the mental, internal moving away which is most interesting to the theme of the novel. Marlow learns that it takes little for a person to lose touch with the civilization that they ...

DEFINING DETERMINATE SENTENCING

Determinate sentencing is a when one is incarcerated for a definite length of time, i.e. five years or more. The jail time is fixed and cannot be altered by any parole board or agency. An example is when one is entitled to jail time of one-year. The prisoner will serve in the prison walls for one whole year. If the prisoner behaves well, he or she is given sometimes off as a token of appreciation. The maximum time for a determinate sentence is four years. Above that it becomes an indeterminate sentence. Judges are responsible for determining the period the prisoner will ...

Keeping Prison Drug Treatment an Option

Keeping Prison Drug Treatment an Option

Introduction

Understanding the social benefits of keeping prison drug treatment an option as part of prisoner rehabilitation engages increasing support in the ongoing debate about its efficacy. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of the 211,150 total prison population, over 50 percent have drug related convictions (2013). From 1990 and well into the first decade of the 21st century, America's controversial "war on drugs" contributes to the continued overcrowding in the nation's prisons (VanderWaal, Taxman, & Gurka-Ndanyi, 2008, p. 127). According to van Wormer and Persson (2010), " A large percentage of inmates ...

Short and Long-Term Policies: Prisoner Overcrowding 3

Prison Overcrowding Reduction Policy Stakeholders 4 Prison Overcrowding Reduction: Short-Term Goals and Solutions 5 Prison Overcrowding Reduction: Long-Term Goals and Solutions 8 Creation of Jail Capacity Management Boards and Oversight Committees .8 Alternatives to Incarceration .9 Private For-Profit Prisons 11 Conclusion 12

References .13

Short and Long-Term Policies:Prisoner Overcrowding Overcrowding in jails and prisons is a complex problem that is difficult but imperative for the nation to solve. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world; while countries similar to the U.S. have an average rate of 100 prisoners per 100, ...

Constitutional Standards

Deliberate indifference refers to act that is more than mere negligence but one that is less than a specific intention to harm inmate or inmates. It also refers to an act of reckless behavior without considerations of the consequences of one's actions. For prison officials to be accused of deliberate indifference, they must have prior knowledge towards the security status of an inmate, and they fail to act upon discovering that an inmate’s security is under threat and facing substantial harm. Failing to take steps to overcome this is an act of deliberate indifference. Some inmates may require particular ...

Introduction

Since 9/11, the specter of terror attacks has turned US terror policies upside down. Legislations that broadened the scope of government ability to detain terrorist as well as an extensive overhaul of government departments ensued. The US, long known for its adherence to due process, immediately gathered and arrested terrorist suspects detaining them in a military prison facility outside of the country taking liberties that it would not have ordinarily done or allowed to do under ordinary circumstances. The handling of terrorist suspects is one of the most debated issues in recent times. On one hand, the government wants to ...

Involuntary Medication for Defendants and Prisoners

Involuntary Medication for Defendants and Prisoners Involuntary medication occurs when an individual is subjected to a medical procedure or treatment against their will and without their consent (Roesch & Zapf, 2013). The majority of cases involving involuntary medication arise from psychiatric treatment that is normally administered to patients who do not have the capacity to consent to the treatment. The holding in Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210 (1990) was that mentally ill are normally considered to be a threat to themselves and to other individuals who they may come in contact with thus necessitating the need for the treatment (Roesch & ...

The central claim of this paper is: the movie Million Dollar Baby is a cinematic argument containing the central thesis of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave from Republic and Aristotle’s moral philosophy from Nicomachean Ethics. First, the allegory of the cave will be explained as well as Aristotle’s theory of virtue. The paper will give examples from Eastwood’s film to back up the thesis, along with possible counterarguments. The story of the cave is Plato’s argument for how knowledge begins in darkness and ascends towards truth (517a). The ascent to knowledge is gradual. Darkness ...

Introduction

The right to suffrage is accorded to every citizen of a nation given some of the limits dictated in the constitution. When limits are discussed, these pertain to restrictions awarded to an individual that deters their free participation in the process of appointing the rightful individuals who would take office a seat in a public office. This makes the right to vote one of the supreme and basic rights of individuals. However, as mentioned earlier, this can be suspended as deemed necessary by law or as previously decided by the drafters of the constitution or legislation warranting sufficient basis for the decision. ...

Introduction

In the current world that is rapidly changing, the need for efficient management in prisons as well as other similar institutions is becoming greater. An effective prison management has been linked, both in practice and in theory, to sustainable economic development. In addition, effective prison management is credited as the key to the development of modern prison principles and systems. There have emerged various individuals as well as criminal rights groups asking for a complete overhaul of the current prison management systems to pave way for new systems. These individuals have also been calling for various changes to be instituted ...

Parole is the act of releasing prisoners after they have served their complete jail sentence. It is a practice in many countries as a way of reforming corrective measures applied to prisoners. The parolees are not allowed complete freedom, but parole officers monitor them. This corrective measure extends to prisoners under conditions that they reform and restrain from drugs, engage in constructive work and constantly keep in touch with the authorities. Failure to honour the terms of release would lead to withdrawal of parole and the parolee taken back to prison (Petersilia, 2003, p 122). This concept originates from the prisoners ...

Introduction

Georgia Department of Corrections is one of the agencies of the government which is tasked with the responsibility of operating prison systems within the state of Georgia. Georgia is one of the states of the United States. Currently, the headquarters of Georgia Department of Corrections is found in Tift College. This college is situated at a place that is known as Forsyth which is found in Atlanta. Initially, the headquarters of the Georgia Department of Corrections was located at the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building. This specific building is also found in Atlanta. The headquarters of Georgia Department ...

This book is the work of Frankl after he was thrown into the Nazi concentration and extermination camp. He survived by a miracle. The book does not outline on how Frankl suffered in the camp but rather accounts on the source of his strength to survive. He says that a man who has a reason to live can go through any pain. He tries to describe the prisoners who committed suicide and says that they totally lost hope in life thus; they saw no need to stay alive. Lack of food or medicine was not a major cause of death than lack of ...

In our everyday lives, we all are faced with one thing-power over something or someone whether it is our children or over our parents as to what nursing home to put them in or let them come and live with us. Generally, it might seem normal to get a little abusive with our so called power and let it go to our head to the point of letting that power take us over because we feel that being drunk on it is not a crime. Nevertheless, given the standard prison study, I can say that I do indeed have some ethical ...

The U.S. Department of Corrections is reeling with a multitude of issues that are caused by the overflowing prison population. A little over ten percent of the nation’s population languishes in prisons across the nation. Despite harsher laws being passed often, career criminals keep pushing their luck and eventually end up right where they started. It is advocated that the core issue for recidivism is lack of education, drug abuse and poverty. However, there have been examples of people who gave up crime and were successful. The common characteristics in these extraordinary former inmates is that they chose to ...

The right to privacy can be limited for security purposes. For instance, a prisoner does not have a right to toilet doors which can be locked from the inside (Citizens Information 1). The decisions of the Court have established that prison officers can properly monitor as well as record conversations of prisoners provided that the prisoner and his or her visitor have been cautioned that this will be carried out (The Free Dictionary 1). According to John (1), in prison, there is deprivation of security. When imprisoned, a prisoner is placed into prolonged closeness with other convicts who in many instances ...

According to Albert Camus in his work The Myth of Sisyphus, man is engaged in a futile search for meaning, as the world itself is completely devoid of significant and universal truths. He compares life to the myth of Sisyphus, the Greek figure who was doomed to roll a boulder up a mountain, only to never reach the top. Instead of giving up and embracing oblivion, however, Camus believes that "The struggle itselfis enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy" (Camus 1955, PAGE). Sisyphus becomes the embodiment of Camus’ absurd hero – a man who attempts to persevere in a world that ...

Prisoners' Right to Vote in the UK and the Need for the Current law Reforms

Voting is the most common way of choosing leaders in the continents. Voting rights are the privileges given to those who have acquired the requirements to vote, for example, attaining the required age of eighteen years. However, restrictions are placed on some people as prisoners and ex-members of parliament. A case in point is observed in the UK where prisoners are denied the right to vote. This may be a major setback to the social life of those citizens behind bars, but may also act as a control measure for security reasons in the state of UK. Issuing the inmates with a ...

In March 20th, 2003, America started on of the longest wars in the world. The American forces invaded Iraq without warning and triggered the beginning of the war. There were claims by the United Kingdom and the United States of America that, Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WPM) and thus was a threat to their security and to the coalitions in the region (Blair, 2002). The United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission (UNMOVIC) had conducted a thorough search and verification in Iraq prior to the attack to ascertain this claim. They found no evidence of ...

A society can’t live without law because it imposes rules that make people in order. If somebody breaks a law, then there is a place that is intended for him or her – jail. America is renowned as the land of the free because of its laws that govern people in order. However, justice and mercy are sometimes not working in harmony. Some captive prisoners are actually innocent and some people of lesser assaults are still on the streets because of the use of money. However, the numbers of prisoners in the United States still reach in million. Government is allocating ...

INTRODUCTION

Understanding human beings, their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors has always been a fascination of society. While human beings, as animals, are dependent upon a certain number of biological imperatives; the most basic needs, wants, and desires. Psychology looks not solely at the physical but the psyche of human beings. They seek to understand why some people react differently to differing situations and are some behaviors able to be triggered based on a scenario or created environment. Psychology has always simulated environments in order to gauge people’s responses or to see if certain responses could be recreated. That is exactly what was ...

Solzhenitsyn's first novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in 1962 after a round of intense, routine scrutiny by Party officials. (Biography of A. Solzhenitsyn) It is autobiographical: ‘Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who spent 11 years (1945-56) in various prisons, concentration camps and places of forced exile in the Soviet Union because of some disrespectful references to Stalin in private correspondence with a friend, caused a worldwide sensation in November 1962 when his first novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," was published in the magazine Novy Mir.’ (Kramer) There Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his masterpiece. ‘The tale involves a ...

Abstract

The Rehabilitation of Prisoners is a widely discussed and argued topic. There are two different methods in which prisoners are rehabilitated. One is a punishment approach to rehabilitation by forcing inmates to tasks such as community service and parole, whereas the other method is by education and psychotherapy. Although there reasons for both of the methods as outlined in this paper, the better and cost effective approach is the second method that includes education and psychotherapy. In this paper I will argue that this is the much better method for the rehabilitation of prisoners. The rehabilitation of prisoners is a highly ...

Philosophy

Plato has Socrates portray a crowd of people who live chained in a cave of their lives while facing a plain wall. These people watch the shadows on the wall by the objects that pass in front of a fire behind these people and begin to assign shadow names. Socrates starts by asking Glaucon to visualize a cave occupied by prisoners who were imprisoned since childhood in a way that their necks and legs are fixed, which they unable to move their heads so they are forced to stare at a wall in facing them. Behind them is a fire, and between the prisoners and the ...

Project number: 50176000

Current date Ethical Dilemma 1: Gun Rally After reception of a tip concerning a potential illegal gathering scheduled, it must be decided what is the appropriate course of action, having in mind your own maintenance in the assignment of the gathering, and your responsibilities and commitments to defend the regulation. The appropriate course of action in this situation is to assign a subordinate officer to identify the frontrunner or the organizer of the gathering, and notify them wholly of the license requirements, local laws, and laws of the municipality, which relate to municipal crowds. `` A meeting of three ...

Introduction

According to Travis, Solomon and Waul (1), federal and state prisons release an estimated 600,000 prisoners annually; this transforms to about 1,600 individuals in a day. They find ways of living in harmony with the new community; this is a gradual transition from prison to community life. The transition is not smooth in most cases; the freed prisoners experience difficulties in adjusting. It occurs in terms of; finding employment, adjusting to family life, and society in general (Gaynes, 8). The amount of time spent behind bars leaves most people unprepared for the life outside. If not helped, the prisoners ...

Within

USA Correction System Abstract The principal objectives of punishment in the correction system of America are to prevent crimes and although it has the right objectives they are not working. The only objectives that work are incapacitation and deterrent and they only work because the culprits’ ability to commit crime is taken away.

Analysis of the Principal Objectives of Punishment within the USA Correction System

It does not matter how small a community is, one of the first item on its agenda after choosing its government, is an institution that represents law and order. In the United States there are different branches of the judiciary system; however they share the ...

Abstract

Introduction According to Thomas (2005), the crime rate in 2003 was almost the same as it was in 1973, but the number of people in prisons grew sevenfold. This is a real public policy puzzle because if the number of offenders did not change over the period, it would be appropriate to question the cause of the number of inmates to rise from 300,000 to nearly 2.3 million. The increase media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s of high profile cases, and law and order demagoguery by politicians all played a part, of course. Nevertheless, the main ...

Introduction

Throughout history many battles and wars have been fought, but many people and societies never realized that there are other effects on the soldiers and other victims apart from the physical effect. To this end it has been observed that mental effect is another result of the war with several researchers dedicating their time to look at the phenomenon in detail. Though a number of soldiers have had the strife of facing these difficulties which remained in continuity for the rest of their lives, it has been found that they have only recently received their answers along with the ...

Introduction

Life in a prison at a glance looks haunting and horrifying that comes along with an added burden of issues related to esteem, mental disorders, financial constraints and exposure to high risk behaviors. United States has two major types of prisons; the state and the federal prison where each of them have different security levels depending on the severity of the crime, punishment and facilities provided to the offenders. Although the reason behind incarceration differs from one individual to the other, imprisonment leaves a lasting adverse effect on the life of the prisoners. The life before imprisonment completely changes when a person is ...

Report on Prisons and Contemporary Issues

Prisonner's Rights to DNA Testing

A person convicted of a crime would nonetheless lose his constitutional rights for freedom. The objective of court trials is to weigh the evidence that all parties have presented to justify arguments of innocence or guilt. A court trial is the best time for any accused to prove his innocence of a crime and he should maximize that opportunity to do his best to defend himself. However, trials are not just about facts and evidence it's also about possibilities. Possibilities that the accused is actually innocent, despite the evidence pointing at him. As soon as the ...

‘Stubborn Husband, Stubborn Wife’ – Traditional Persian Tale

‘The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses’ – Bessie Head

An Interpretative Analysis

These three texts differ greatly in many ways. The dates of their composition are separated by many years and the social context in which they were written is greatly different. Trifles might be said to be a proto-feminist work in the way it describes the marriage of John and Minnie Wright, and in the way that Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters understand why Minnie Wright killed her husband and conspire to keep the truth from the police in sisterly solidarity with Minnie Wright. ‘The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses’ is set in South Africa ...

English Literature

On the Texan Death Row, how many inmates have expressed sorrow and remorse, and how many of them have expressed anger.

Understandably, if the prisoner is aware of their innocence or guilt, then they are far more likely to act accordingly: if an innocent man was charged and sentenced to be placed on death row amongst the absolute scum of the Earth, it would be understandable for him to express a lot of anger. However, for the prisoners who have been charged and their innocence not proven, some express remorse whilst others express anger anyway. The purpose of this essay ...

Ethics and Zimbardo

An important aspect of any psychological study is to assess how it will affect the subjects’ well-being. These considerations are referred to as ethics; and the British Psychological Society has strict guidelines to follow when designing your study and considering its ethical implications. In more recent decades, ethics have been much more widely measured as a result of human rights laws becoming more and more prevalent. In social psychology, it is generally more difficult to uphold ethical considerations because it sometimes detracts from the natural reaction required to ensure the study is as close to real life as possible. However, ...

Plato’s “Myth of Cave” is a very famous allegory, also known as “Allegory of the Cave” was used in Plato’s work “The Republic”, which is written in the form of Socratic dialogue. “Myth of Cave” is considered to be the best work that shows Platonism and objective idealism in general. Plato’s “Myth of Cave” is a symbol of metaphysics, epistemology and dialectics also it is the symbol of the whole Plato’s philosophy.

People live in a cave, in the cave with the entrance directed to the light that illuminates the entire length of ...

Bryans Post

The post appreciates the fact that Malesko had a case and was valid. In fact, in the response to the question of whether Malesko could have succeeded if it was a private organization, the post is in concurrence that Malesko indeed had a case with a chance of success. However, the post attempts to divert the liability of the correctional facility by asserting that the Malesko did not exhaust the alternative remedies. In addition, the post recognizes the fact that due procedure was not followed and that Malesko needed to have forwarded his complaints to the agency first. Moreover, the post claims that ...

Introduction

The correctional system has many problems and challenges. These problems are brought on by many factors such as corruption, negligence and lack of funds. There are many reforms that need to be established by the next government. These reforms will help in implementing other alternatives other than incarcerations, improve the conditions of the prison wards and implement an effective penal system. These facts could help in reducing crime rates or help curb released prisoners from committing the same crimes. In looking at history, it is quite clear that there are many reasons that have caused many offenders from repeating ...

In the game theory, it is assumed that there are several players who are rational. They are interested in their gain in the entire process and the choices they make are geared towards their self-fulfillment. The classical example of the game theory is the prisoner’s dilemma. Two prisoners are held by security officials for a serious crime. There is no judicial evidence. Their conviction is based on both or either of the prisoners confessing to the crime. If one confesses, he gets immunity from prosecution while the other prisoner is jailed for a long time. If they both confess, they ...

There has been an ineffective penal system for punishing criminals. The government should aim at getting tough on criminal activities to ensure that the society becomes safe and comfortable in a criminal free environment. However, there has been conflicting influences in the penal system that has proved to be inefficient in protecting people from crime. Law makers have tried to raise issues to solve the problems within the penal system but with less success because the criminals have always been given less punishments. For a penal system to be effective, it should focus on reasonable principles and should serve the purpose ...

The book offers diverse tools to identify loopholes in an argument which will be utilized to address the arguments in the howling man. In the Howling Man episode, the imprisoned devil claims that he has been imprisoned against his will by the members of the hermitage, while the conclusion drawn is that the members of the hermitage are mad and insane. Alternatively, the same arguments can also be presented as the claim that the members of the hermitage are made and insane leading to the conclusion that they have imprisoned an innocent person (devil) through an irrational act. Brother ...

HUM 71

What composes the soul of a man? Is it his life experiences? Is it his origins? Is it the choices he makes? It is perhaps a combination of all those notions. Nothing is singular but rather an amalgamation. In the confines of a dark passage, human beings have a capacity to rise above adversity or fall prey to it. In The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Andy Dufrane’s quest to keep his humanity intact makes a film a modern classic. Directed by Frank Darabont, the film deals with virtues of friendship, hope and the consequences of choices people make in their life. Prison sucks the ...

Camus's "The Guest" (pp. 1580-97). As the story ends, Daru seems to be threatened with a consequence he doesn’t deserve. Is this just? Is there any way he could have created a good outcome? Why do you think Camus chooses to end the story this way? As it has been indicated in the post, Daru’s situation is one that portrays the diverse view through which the society perceives an individual. In the need to seek to establish a good rapport with the society, Daru lets the prisoner decide on which way to go-the escape route or the way ...