SOC309Y1 Chapter : Prisons
Document Summary
Spread by drug use, sex for money, rapes. Increasing rate of imprisonment in the us system. Costs a lot of $, social failure. y y. Some stay in jail simply because it s a better lifestyle government takes care of their sickness, diet, laundry, etc. Selling drugs as a better lifestyle than flipping burgers at mc donald s saw it as a way out of low slum lifestyle. Basically: became a drug dealer at age 14, and found out was infected with hiv after being sentenced to prison. Ex-lovers accused him of being giving them hiv, but he did not know. Aunt: talks about arkansas s river of blood scandal harvested blood from prisoners and sold it in the us. Used extremely dangerous and inhumane procedures, sold at high profit margins. Rape is common in prison places 21% of inmates (from a 7 prison study) experienced at least 1 episode of pressured/forced sex.
