There are many different levels of federal prisons in the United States, from Minimum Security Prisons at the most lax side of the spectrum to High Security Prisons as the the type with the most intense security of them all. Not only are the prisons differentiated by the security levels, they’re also diverse in the types of inmates they house and the physical set up of the prisons. Minimum Security Prisons have dormitory housing and no perimeter fencing while High Security Prisons have both multiple and single occupant housing along with multiple walls and reinforced fences surrounding the buildings ("BOP: Federal"). Although the distinct types of federal prisons are separated by their differences, one thing almost all of them have in common …show more content…
There’s proof that participants of the program have shown extensive positive changes in their previous scales of depression, hostility, and emotional numbness. The program and many others like it bring the social patterns and cultural rules of prisons into the light and can enforce a positive change on the dangerous aspects of life in federal prisons ("Houses of …show more content…
Punishment as rehabilitation as a way to decrease crime has no concrete evidence of working because most criminals don’t think of the consequences of their actions until the crime has already been committed. If they’re going to commit a crime, they’re unconcerned with what happens after. Along with incarceration being a punishment, many federal prisons in the United States also use the death penalty. Despite the risk of facing death themselves, many criminals still commit the murders that lead to their death sentence, but for reasons unknown despite all the research done, they murder even more in the states that have the death penalty (Nolen). Researchers are able to make the conclusion that punishment in any way as a course of action to rehabilitate inmates is ineffective and needs to be changed by the