A rising issue within the United States judicial system is the inability of women to be provided with adequate support mechanisms that can assist them in being reintroduced into society. Furthermore, these programs become a necessary part of any prison as female prisoners are easily institutionalized within prisons and face...

The debate of the effectiveness of criminal justice system in deterrence of crime has received a number of attentions from different scholars that included activists, law professors, attorneys, etc. Some scholars share the same subscription but for entirely different reasons and arguments while other different in the whole context. John...

Violence in prison systems across the world stem from a multitude of problems and there is not a “magic bullet” to fix it either. It is not as if prison violence is a recent phenomenon, violence in prisons can probably be traced back to the earliest known prison systems in...

In the present day, courts and civil society have noted the need to recognize the prisoners do have right and they need to be upheld. Notably, the courts also recognize that the prisoners' rights are also limited and they forfeited unlimited right when they committed a crime. Both the courts...

The issues revolving around female inmates have raised heated debates in the recent years. Not only has the cases of incarceration of females increased but also the time spent while serving their sentences has shown steady rise. According to Nedim (2017), the period between 1995 and 2002 saw the imprisonment...