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The Injustices Inflicted On Nonviolent Offenders In The U.S. Correctional System, Carly B. Ouellette
The Injustices Inflicted On Nonviolent Offenders In The U.S. Correctional System, Carly B. Ouellette
Pell Scholars and Senior Theses
This thesis explores the U.S. correctional system in order to determine its most serious problems and call for a change in policy in order to eliminate the injustices within the system. Prisons are not benefiting inmates, correctional officers, or society. The goal of rehabilitation of inmates is a failed one. Inmates are destroyed in prison; they lose connection with the outside world, they suffer from the harsh realities of prison life, and they return to society worse off than when they entered prison. Current prisons are degrading the inmates through its dismal atmosphere, its extreme violence, and its culture. Society …