Prisons

ln Transfer of juveniles to Adult Court: Effects of a Broad Policy in One Court by Edward R Mulvey and Carol A. Schubert, the authors bring to light how when adolescents are put in the adult system versus juvenile, it teaches these adolescents that the “demand for proportional punishment has trumped the goal of individualized…

Ethiopia has a harsh prison system in where they would beat and torture their prisoners. According to the Association of Human Rights in Ethiopia their has been many testimonies of torture and other inhuman and illegal treatments of prisoners in many undisclosed areas. Belayneh Alemneh, a 29 year old at resident of Amhara Regional state…

According to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, prison is an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses. Throughout history, most societies have built places in which to hold persons accused of criminal acts pending some form of trial. The idea of confining persons after a trial as punishment for their crimes is relatively new….