Similarities Between Prison And Prison

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The Difference and Similarities between Life inside a Prison and Life on the Outside for the Convict and Ex-convict certainly has its ups, downs, highs, and lows. Convicts that have been incarcerated for quite some time continue to live life on the outside of prison as if they were still behind those walls. From going to bed early, waking up early, and even eating some of the same foods they ate while being in prison. One man made it through his entire jail sentence by committing himself to exercising every day and was released and kept his exact exercise routine. Throughout my research I have concluded that the similarities outweigh the differences, although there are plenty of both when you are a convict incarcerated and when you are an ex-convict and you are in the free world.
For the convict that is incarcerated, they are told what to do at all times. From being told to go to bed, wake up, when they can eat, when they can call and have visitation almost like kids at a daycare but they are grownups. Inmates can also attend church services, go to the library, depending on their crime they can do programs such as work release where they can leave the prison attend a job and be brought back to the prison while being …show more content…

You cannot do close to anything that you do on the outside as you do on the inside. Besides eating and sleeping and you can only do that inside of a prison when you are told to. You cannot have a social life inside of prison unless you are mingling with people who committed similar or worse crimes then you did. Although you can attend school while being incarcerated it is nothing like attending a regular class with people and interacting with classmates and professors. Research states that the labeling theory comes dangerously close to claiming that the main causes of crime do not matter. Once you are labeled there is no turning back from what they have stamped on your

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