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The Education of American Prison
Mark McGuire
01 January 2011
Prison Education Reflected in American Movies
Abstract
Education is the most important work of every prison. Its main purpose is to give an opportunity to the prisoners as or just like the community. Prison itself is a means to reform and re-education those people that broke the law, in order to make them to have the ability to live a new life and I’d like to call them “perfel person”. In this thesis I will analysis two American movies and elaborate the cognition I learned. This thesis mainly focuses on the prison education reflected in American movies; use the adult education principle of pedagogy,
introduce the prison education system reflected in American movies and further discussed. At first, we will start at the early age of the American prison, analysis its early chaos situation and system; and then introduce its development, operation conditions and a series of status caused by system; then based on the prison education situation of federal system of capitalism, and expounds its present running status and main achievements. Finally through the introduction and analysis of the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” and the movie “The longest yard” we can study their main teaching program, and finally we can enhance the prison management and education of our country. As the indispensable authority of every country, prison is concerned by a lot of people. Our nation is still very young, and is in a initial stage in this inspect, this article through the study and discuss of the world’s most developed country’s prison movie, by using the Andragogy, investigate deep into the development process and the present situation of their prison, find out it transforms from both spiritual hierarchy and physically two aspects at the same time. And its citizens cooperate with them very actively. After a period of teaching, finally the criminal can transform into a “perfect person” that have the ability to live a normal life independently.
And finally we can come up the conclusion: Prison education is a very important part of American. With the popularity of English in China, as the very outstanding country for its social security issues last century, its prison education caused a lot concern and attention in our country. Through the study in this article, we can know that contemporary American prison education is not completely depend on the government’s education and reform, and the prisoner have a strong ability to rebuild themselves the national authority provide them an opportunity to learn and improve themselves. The criminals can be in the society after the efforts of transformation and create wealth once again. From this we can see the national institutions to respond for its citizens and its rich cultural deposits, although our country has founded in a rather short time, through the study of these countries our country can achieve a higher level soon.
American has the highest crime-rate in the world, and the prison also has the most people all around the world. To put people in the prison is a representative punishment, and American use it from colony age till now, it has a very close relationship whit it’s economic, culture and the change of penalty idea, let us know its characteristic of diversified. Under th
e influence of innovative and the challenge American prison institutions reform and develop continuously, improve their prison legal system and management system, and take new measures to adapt the new request of the society to correct the criminals.
American has the highest rate of the population in the prison; there is one criminal in every thirty-four person in the country. By the time of 12.31, 1999, the number of prison in American is 1.983 million, and it has beyond 2 million to become the largest in the country. And the number of prisoner has occupied almost 25 percent of the entire world.
According to the statistics, 12 percent of the population in American are black, but it will be 50 percent in the jail, a lot of black in the prison are because of the drugs and smuggling, we all know that a lot Americans take drugs, but most of the drug trafficker are black, because it’s harder to find a job for them, if them can’t bear the manual labor then the only way to make a living is sell drugs. Maybe you will say they can go to school, but it is all the same there, the black is still not get the right their god have given them.
I think nobody was born to be a criminal, and nobody wants to go to jail if they can feed the
mselves. But it is not fair everywhere, one person cannot just complain for the unfair situation, anyone has two hands and two legs, this is fair for us expect the disability, as an “ability person”, we must do the things right, we have no reason to break the law, maybe bad things happen to you but good things happen to others, it is called fate. You cannot act as Beethoven to chock the throat of fate, then you may lose everything, the only thing you can do is to get a job and work hard so you can get something to eat later.
When people see this topic, they will say this is a waste of time, cause everyone know that American prison is a place full of violence and disease, people in there are out of their minds, they are all crazy, they kill others without blink their eyes, and someone always stir-up-trouble, if there is anything wrong, a fight is inevitable, you may say if you self-surrender every time then there will be nothing wrong, but sometimes things happened, and not like what you imagine, you can’t always be a coward. About this I can tell you, fight is a way to solve the problem between men, and there is another way, that is use your heart to treat others, you may hurt during this period, but at the end of this, you may find under your influence, people around you will be very cute, just like the movie ‘the longest yard’, the gu
ard want to admonished a criminal because they are afraid of the prisoners’ team, the warden want to win the game by no means, but when the guard treat the boy unfairly once more, the boy obvious know that the guards want to beat him, but every time he do the work well and always smile to them, finally the guards let him go without any hurt, so what’s that mean? If one person can treat anything unfairly equally, he will success at the end.
So what I want to say is things are not like some people said, when we look at something, we can’t just see the bad aspect, if we change another angle, then it will present us the beautiful things. 
The history of American prison education is very long, and also have a very long history all around the world, in this chapter I will introduce you the prison from three aspects, they are general condition of a prison, improvement of the prison and today’s American prison.
We all know that a prison was build to hold those people who broke the law, so this thing appears under some circumstance that is what I want to talk in this part. Mr. Zhang Dongping mentioned that:
Education remodeling is the basic work of constructing modern civilized prison, and it is also an important part of prison work. Education remodeling can advance modern civilized prison's construction process and the construction of modern civilized prison opens up more space for its deep going development. The two sides relate, require and complement mutually. Modern civilized prison construction demands education remodeling work in many aspects and this article demonstrates the ways to modern civilized prison

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