A Murderer in Jail
When a murderer goes to jail and he is already sentenced a life-time in jail what exactly goes through his mind? Do they regret things they have done in the past, or maybe they would never have done anything differently and just wish they never got caught. Since they have a life-time in jail maybe they think that they have nothing to lose so they might kill another in prison. What exactly goes through the minds of these twisted murderers? Whatever goes through their head, we can only wonder when the next time they are going to take away a innocent life. The main problems with keeping a killer alive in prison is they have nothing to lose if they have a lifetime in jail, their mental state is not stable, and the prison guard to prisoner ratio is significantly different.
In the minds of these murderers, in most cases than not, they are thinking about the next victim that will fall into their trap. Maybe they want to get back at the officers for catching them in the first place and will kill a prison guard. The guards never know what the prisoners will do next. Maybe they think they have nothing to lose but to kill another cellmate, or maybe their mental state is never going to change. They think that it is alright to kill five people then they are most definitely sick in the mind. The prison guard to prisoner ratio is a big difference and prisoners could take on the prison guards if they had others join with them.
The Term Paper on Life in the Prison System
Connor Moroney Mr. Heitz College Writing 6 May 2013 Life in the Prison System Prison is a place that nobody wants to be. Its a place which can hold anyone who has committed a crime no matter how serious. There are many different crimes that can land you in prison and unfortunately so many people have committed these crimes that our prisons are becoming overpopulated. These prisons all have ...
In the summer of 1999, New York opened a state-of-the-art jail which made seventy jails that were in New York. This prison was built for the aggressive prisoners who rebelled everywhere else. They would leave the prisoners in their cell alone for 23 hours out of the day never seeing a classroom or the cafeteria. Sometimes the guards switched it up and put two cell mates together in a cell for 23 hours. Well this had made Donnell Brunson go to the extent he had gone. It was May 12, 1999 at 2:45 a.m. and Brunson was reading in his cell with his bunkmate, Jose Quintana who was charged for killing another man. Quintana asked for Brunson to turn off his light but Brunson did not and kept the light on. Then it broke out into a huge fight, punches flying everywhere and blood all over their faces. One of the prison guards came running over after he heard all the commotion. Brunson now had Quintana on the bottom bunk while Brunson was kicking him in the face and punching him. After more than thirty minutes of this intense fight Brunson finally gave into the wishes of the guards and backed off. Quintana was rushed to the hospital and later that morning was pronounced dead by blunt force trauma (Gonnerman, pg. 1-23).
Through 1996 to 1999, there have been more than five murders reporting a murder inside of a prison. (Gonnerman, pg. 2) Which are too many murders in the minds of many Americans. If a murderer kills another cellmate and thinks nothing of it, while he has killed many others in the past, is not it proof enough that this man should not be on this earth? While the person he murdered might have been in jail for a minor crime and was in the place at the wrong time, while the murderer took it out on him. The government needs to realize that being in jail is not punishment enough for the acts of these relentless murderers. Does keeping them alive constitute the lives of all the others who had died under the wrath of himself?
The prison guard to the prisoner’s ratio is a very big difference. It is about one prison guard to 125 prisoners (Fields, pg. 1).
The Term Paper on History Of The American Prison System
The history of U.S. prisons from the late 1700s to the late 1800s was marked by a shift from a penitentiary system primarily concerned with rehabilitation to one concerned more with warehousing prisoners. The failure of reform minded wardens to justify rehabilitation caused state legislatures to set economic profitability as the new goal for prisons. This resulted in a worsening of prison ...
So the chance of prisoners coming up against a prison guard is very likely if not almost one hundred percent guaranteed. Why keep murderers alive and well in jail that are capable of killing another?
More times than not, a murderer kills someone because of the mental state that they are in. They might have got raped as a child, abused by their parents, or something that traumatized them when they were younger (Martin, 2).
Someone who has had that happen to them scars them for life and it is very difficult to suppress that wound. Then they have a mental state in their mind that it is okay to rape another because of what happened to them in earlier years. When they are in jail and are never going to change, that is when it becomes a problem and they start taking other lives while they are in prison.
Whatever the reason murderers kill another, one thing is for certain; they do not deserve the benefit of living on this earth that many noble people have lived on. No matter how much it may seem like they have changed, most likely they will always stay that way. Although in some cases many people have changed and ceased killing others, most of them are never going to change. America needs to quit letting these murderers have the gift of life, which is the greatest thing a person can have.
