Stanford Prison Experiment and American Prison System Overview
Words: 1069 Pages: 4 4833Conrad Black once said, “All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.” Although the United States prison system was established to demonstrate equality and justice, in the last decade it seems to be demonstrating something else (Kilgore, 2015). As in March of 2018, 10.6 million people each year enter the prison systems of the United States (Wagner, & Sawyer, 2018). The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, […]