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When viewing the far greater treatment prisoner inmates get in the german prison system, it begins to raise many, many questions of our own. Honestly, my first question, though based on history was how does a country, specifically one we condemn continuously, has a better prison system than America? Though the bigger question is whatContinue reading “German Prisons”

While I can understand the ideal of the “eye for an eye” stance that typically follow with support for the death penalty, someone close to you gets hurt or even killed and you want the person who did the act to feel the same way. I get that. Even though I can understand the idealContinue reading “Death Penalty; Personal Stance”

In the state of Maine, one of the longest recorded manhunts in the states history was in 1981 and was a 22 day long manhunt for prison escapee Arnold Nash (Convicted for robbery at this time) and Milton Wallace (Convicted for murder and rape), though the article doesn’t specifically say how these two inmates managedContinue reading “A Third Escape”

Putting myself in the shoes of a current prison warden, the issue of Covid-19, aka the coronavirus, and the continuous rise of its cases. As a prison warden during this time there is a genuine concern about the levels of sanitation, contact with loved ones, and connection to the elderly fellow inmates. If I wasContinue reading “Prison amid Covid-19”

The state of Maine is not a state most people think of in terms of prison rates and even population. In total the state of Maine has 15 facilities within their corrections system, within these there are 6 state adult correctional facilities, 2 state youth development, 4 adult community correctional region offices, and 3 juvenileContinue reading “Maine Correction System”

Prisons are known to be the epitome of punishment for committing crime, to make the perpetrator suffer and be deprived of all their liberties and freedoms, but when does the punishment turn into mental torture? Suicide rates in the prison systems have been a recent hot topic, the general conversation nationally about mental health hasContinue reading “Suicide and Prisons”

In the article Arrest, Release, Repeat; how police and jails are misused to respond to social problems by Alexi Jones and Wendy Sawyer, they researched into local jails and how the populations of jails and the policing are being used to respond to incidents that shouldn’t have been addressed by the police to begin with.Continue reading “Social Problem Arrest and Jailing”