Federal Bureau of Prisons; Flaws, Failures, and solutions

Abstract

With over 200,000 individuals within the Federal Bureau's prisons and many more entering the system every day, comes cause for concern. Out of those 200,000 inmates currently in the Federal system, 7 of 10 of those prisoners will be rearrested after being released and 3-4 of those 7 rearrested will end up being reincarcerated. Most of those individuals who enter the system, however, will either be rearrested, reincarcerated, spend life in prison or get killed by in-prison violence. Hardly few individuals become successful within the free society after release. Clearly, there is a problem in prisons that runs way deeper than just higher crime rates. There is a broken and flawed system. Understanding the pathways those take after incarceration and the lengths of an individual's success or failure is the focus of this research. Most of the existing research on prisons, focus on one specific section. This review uses qualitative research to consider how the Federal Bureau's administration and actions are directly contributed to a flawed prison system. This review summarizes, analyzes and assesses what is known about 10 different categories that have been found to influence prison life in a harmful way. It is concluded in this review that the health, living conditions, mental health, reincarceration, rehabilitation, nutrition, family, sexual assault, and unfair punishment issues of inmates are less-than humane and do not meet the stated goals and philosophies the Federal Bureau of Prisons, claims to achieve.