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 different severities which the prisoners are to serve. Some prisons are meant to break you as to others which only serve as rehabilitation facilities.
The United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country. As of 2006, a record seven million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. Of the total, 2. 2 million were incarcerated. The People’s Republic of China ranks second with 1. 5 million. The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. ” (Vincent J De Maille) The growing number of incarcerations in the US is the reasoning for the overpopulation of inmates in the prisons.
Many people are attempting the think outside of the box to solve this dilemma, one of these people, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has successfully made a new type of prison which consists of a city of tents. There are many different types of prisons, theres minimum security, close security, maximum security, supermax, and federal prisons. Each of these prisons widely verry by the amount of interactions with other prisoners to the security which is present. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a long history of law enforcement.
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He served in the army 1950-1953, was a police officer for nearly five years, was a federal narcotics agent, and ended his career as the head of DEA of Arizona. He runs a prison which is one of a kind, it is made of tents and is nicknamed “tent city”. Tent city was established in 1993 and has a maximum capacity of 2000 inmates. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known as “America’s toughest sheriff” because of the work he puts his prisoners through. He runs a famous chain gang which goes to nearby towns to clean the streets.
Every prison should have a chain gang that cleans the streets of nearby towns because it will save the town a lot of money. This would also make the inmate work for their stay in prison instead of having the government pay for their food and rooming. If this were to become a law for every prison then taxes would go down significantly. The prisons average meal is 15 cents and they are fed twice a day which also helps the prisoners to pay of their stay in prison. He also is famous for making his inmates wear pink clothing. He does this because if someone were to escape people would know by the pink clothing that they are prisoners.
After he began forcing the prisoners to wear pink he realized that their personalities changed and that they acted less masculine. This lowered the amount of violence and disputes at the prison. Prisons can greatly vary by the daily routine which they go through. ADX Florence is a supermax prison built in 1994 which is located in Florence, Colorado in the shadows of the rocky mountains. It holds some of the most notorious inmates throughout the United States. Nobody has ever escaped from the prison which is due to its incredibly high security which is necessary because 500 of the countries most dangerous criminals are held here.
It is one of the 31 supermax prisons located in America but ADX Florence is the biggest and most famous. The punishments which are used at ADX Florence are far different than the punishments used at “Tent City”. ADX Florence and many other supermax prisons are often accused of cruel treatment of inmates. The inmates at ADX Florence spend 22 plus hours of their day inside their cell which is 10 feet wide and 15 feet deep and includes a bed, shower, toilet, and sink. The only time the prisoners are let out of their cell they are put in a large area which is almost like an empty pool which allows them no way to escape.
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They can only see a small piece of the sky from this pool which makes it impossible for the prisoners to know their location preventing prison escapes and often drives inmates crazy. While in “Tent City”, which is located in the Arizona desert the temperature can reach heat of well above 100 degrees. Despite the intense heat Sheriff Joe Arpaio argues that the temperature in Arizona is no hotter than the heat our troops face every day in the Middle East. Michael Santos wrote about his prison experience. He said that while in prison he did a lot of lifting and running.
Once he was out he noticed many changes since before his prison sentence which consisted of 20 years at a prison camp in Atwater. He explains that there are many new technologies which weren’t around before his prison sentence for example the internet and cell phones. He even mentions that metal forks and spoons taste odd to him. He says that the style has changed dramatically and that the clothing that people are wearing now are much more revealing. This is what it is like for many prisoners who have served long sentences which is a part of the psychological effect which prison provides.
The psychological effect which is caused by time in prison is shown in the Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. There were 24 college students, all males, who were accepted to volunteer for 15 dollars per day. They were all tested and passed tests which checked for a history of drug use, crime, medical disabilities, and physiology problems. Half the students were made prisoners and the other half of students were made guards. The prisoners were given a full body search naked and were issued stocking caps to simulate their heads being shaved to limit their individuality.
They were also issued uniforms with their id numbers on them which they were called by. Their legs were shackled so they wouldn’t be able to escape the feel of prison even when they were asleep. To create a prisonlike feel they removed the doors on the classrooms and inserted special doors with metal bars and prisoner numbers. The results were recorded with hidden cameras and their cells were bugged. The guards were untrained and were told to do whatever they thought was necessary to gain the respect of the prisoners within reason.
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All the guards wore khaki uniforms and wore a whistle around their neck with clubs which were borrowed from police they also wore special sun glasses preventing anyone from seeing their eyes or being able to read their emotions. There were three prisoners in each cell at all times and three guards on duty working eight hour shifts. For punishment the guards would force the prisoners to do pushups which at first was looked at as a minimal punishment but upon further research they discovered that push ups were a usual punishment by the nazis at concentration camps.
On the second day of the simulation the prisoners rebelled against the guards by removing their stocking caps and barricaded themselves inside their cells and taunting the guards. When the next shift of guards came in and the prisoners were still rebelling the guards blamed each other for the behavior of the prisoners. To handle this the night guards stayed to help the morning guards and the guards on call came in to help to. They decided to treat force with force and they used the fire extinguishers to back the prisoners away from the bars.
After the rebellion the guards stripped the prisoners of their clothes, removed their beds, and threw the leaders of the rebellion into solitary confinement then proceeded to harass the prisoners. The guards realized they didn’t have enough numbers to prevent the prisoners from rebellion again so they decided to set up a privilege cell. The cell was for the three prisoners who were least involved in the rebellion and they were granted special treatment. After the rebellion threats the guards took the “good” prisoners and put them in the “bad” cells and the “bad” prisoners into the “good” cells.
This confused the prisoners and the leaders of the rebellion began to believe the “good” prisoners were informers and there was a lost of trust within the prisoners. According to the ex-convicts who helped to set up this experiment the same tactic is used by real guards in prisons. The rebellion also made the guards think of the prisoners as a threat and caused to guards to increase their control. The guards actually began to limit the amount of times the prisoners could use the bathroom. Less than two days into the experiment the rebellion leader began to suffer from emotional disturbances, uncontrollable crying, and rage.
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The rebellion leader was released early from the experiment because he was suffering from so many disturbances. The next day there were rumors of an escape plan. A guard overhead a prisoner saying that the rebellion leader who was let out the day before was planning on breaking the prisoners out of the jail with his friends. Their plan to foil the escape was to chain and blindfold the prisoners and move them to a different floor of the building. When the rebellion leader and his friends entered they would be told the experiment was over and the prisoners were home.
It turned out that the escape plan was only a rumor and the plan to foil the escape was a waste of time. The guards increased their punishments greatly and began forcing the prisoners to scrub their toilets with their bare hands. After the experiment the prisoners were told to talk to a priest and all of them did except for prisoner #819 who had hardly ate while in jail and was crying uncontrollably. He had been labeled a bad prisoner and was convinced he needed to stay in the jail but upon being told the whole thing had been an experiment he came to his senses and left the jail.
The day after the prisoners got out of jail they had a parole board meeting to decide whether or not the prisoners could leave. They asked the prisoners if they could take the money they paid them to participate in the experiment and most said yes and returned to their cell after the meeting to wait for their ruling because they felt powerless to resist. They realized there were three types of guards during the experiment. There was the fair but tough guard. There was the nice guy who would do small favors for the prisoners and rarely punished the prisoners.
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Then there was the mean guard who enjoyed the power and would often punish the prisoners and harass them on a regular basis. The experiment helped to show the effects that prison has on the inmates physiologically. It showed that when you are given large amounts of power (guards) there is a good chance you will act differently. Just like if you had all your power taken from you (prisoners) you become depressed due to your lack of control over the situation. After an interview with Adam Ellis, an ex inmate from Anamosa prison, a lot of personal experiences were addressed.
He explained that prison changes you in both good ways and bad ways. Some of the things he saw while in prison consisted of fights and rape. He says that after seeing these events he will never be the same he mentioned how disturbed some of his fellow inmates were. While he was there he roomed with an inmate who was in for life for murder. During the interview he was constantly mentioning that the prisoners who were in for life were the ones to look out for. He says that this is because they know they won’t be getting out on good behavior, they know they are stuck in jail and getting time in the hole is the least of their worries.
He discussed with me how slowly time went by in prison because of the lack of time outside. The most brutal and disturbing thing he told me about was the overwhelming hate which every prisoner shared towards child molesters. He said that child molesters usually ended up either killed or severely injured. Once he got out of prison things were a lot different for him, there wasn’t much technology change being that he was only in prison for a year but he mentioned his distance from friends and family who he had hardly seen in a year. (Ellis)