The Penal System In Robert A. Ferguson's Broken System
David Lee Vazquez
Dr. Micah K. Donohue
ENG 104
3/6/18
The Broken System The penal system is the method in which people are punished for violating the legal system. In Robert A. Ferguson’s book Inferno, he sates and question are very view over how are system is functioning “is it ignorance or a more knowing disregard that explains the deplorable conditions in our penal system?” (Ferguson 17) In American society there is this believe in justice as to where a person paying the price for their mistakes has been judged and punished fairly to the offence they have done toward society, but as lately the American penal system has taken a rash tern. Harsh punishments have been brought down on nonviolent crimes. The Eighth Amendment of the United …show more content…
You see there is multiple effects prison can have on a person. While the goal of incarceration is to rehabilitate the person to follow laws, the result is often isolation and loss of valuable time and moment they lose of work and resources that a person needs to maintain a positive role outside the prison system which after words is almost financially impossible to keep. Many people are affected by the incarceration of a person, from the family, to the community and employers, to society in general. Children are the worst effects by incarceration. You see Politician's role in the prison system is to sell the idea to the public that prison makes society safer a better place. Prison is an appropriate punishment for those that are truly a danger to society making them thinks that they should never be released. Prisons don't work because they don't focus on the person's growth in prison. Most people don't even know how it is to survive in prison completely knocking down inside that the importance of the institution in not to help you but punish you for making an offense towards a society that is considered your peer. Change is uncommon in prison because rehabilitation and educated people rarely occurs in this survival game we call prison. Prisoners become accustom to surviving. What is the true aim of our prison system rehabilitated or punish the offender? Many would state that its main goal is to punish those who have committed wrongs. Yet many have never experienced prison and its after effects yet should this be the secondary function of the penal system. The most important function must be to rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders into society so prisons can have a positive effect on inmates and their society. The roots
Dr. Micah K. Donohue
ENG 104
3/6/18
The Broken System The penal system is the method in which people are punished for violating the legal system. In Robert A. Ferguson’s book Inferno, he sates and question are very view over how are system is functioning “is it ignorance or a more knowing disregard that explains the deplorable conditions in our penal system?” (Ferguson 17) In American society there is this believe in justice as to where a person paying the price for their mistakes has been judged and punished fairly to the offence they have done toward society, but as lately the American penal system has taken a rash tern. Harsh punishments have been brought down on nonviolent crimes. The Eighth Amendment of the United …show more content…
You see there is multiple effects prison can have on a person. While the goal of incarceration is to rehabilitate the person to follow laws, the result is often isolation and loss of valuable time and moment they lose of work and resources that a person needs to maintain a positive role outside the prison system which after words is almost financially impossible to keep. Many people are affected by the incarceration of a person, from the family, to the community and employers, to society in general. Children are the worst effects by incarceration. You see Politician's role in the prison system is to sell the idea to the public that prison makes society safer a better place. Prison is an appropriate punishment for those that are truly a danger to society making them thinks that they should never be released. Prisons don't work because they don't focus on the person's growth in prison. Most people don't even know how it is to survive in prison completely knocking down inside that the importance of the institution in not to help you but punish you for making an offense towards a society that is considered your peer. Change is uncommon in prison because rehabilitation and educated people rarely occurs in this survival game we call prison. Prisoners become accustom to surviving. What is the true aim of our prison system rehabilitated or punish the offender? Many would state that its main goal is to punish those who have committed wrongs. Yet many have never experienced prison and its after effects yet should this be the secondary function of the penal system. The most important function must be to rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders into society so prisons can have a positive effect on inmates and their society. The roots