The Inmates

much valuable variety of services to the inmates. I also got the understanding that detainees are not criminals, but they are individuals who made a wrong choice. During the tour, the officer who guided us through the tour explained that the jail is responsible for the custody of male and female’s inmate who have been sentenced to eighteen months or less…

Life After Prison: Do Education and Work Programs Really Work? Randall Lee Church is someone who thought a little differently than other inmates after being released. Church was locked up for murder in 1983 at the age of 18. Twenty six years later he was released, but he could not adjust to the real world (Ulloa). "Everything had gone fast forward without me", he said in a recent interview at Bexar County Jail (Church). Ninety six days after his release Church committed another crime just to go…

so that to protect themselves and other inmates from further harm, as well as being able to effectively control inmate mobility. In common areas within a facility staff is able to isolate areas in which physical altercations are occurring, reducing the ability of other inmates to join into the physical altercation. When inmates are placed in a large gymnasium, the staff has no ability to isolate inmate’s mobility within the gym or to prevent other inmates to freely join into the altercation. The…

correctional facilities. The access to past criminal history of patients being treated in correctional facilities is said to be primarily responsible for the poor treatment they tend to receive when seeking medical attention as inmates. Despite efforts to separate an inmates’ criminal past from those responsible in providing medical care; criminal history of individuals is publicly accessible and difficult to restrict. Society as a whole tends to hold a bias toward specific types of crimes…

percent of prison inmates have not graduated from high school and most individuals in that group are racial minorities” (Nally, 71). Since this majority of inmates have not graduated from high school, they obviously lack the educational skills to attend college and therefore lack the skills needed in the workplace. In this economic environment, obtaining a job is a struggle and requires a college education, specific job-related competencies, and skills. The 68 percent of inmates without…

Statement of the Problem: Is the act of subjecting someone to the death penalty an ethnical and economic form of punishment or not? Many studies have been conducted in hopes of answering the age old question on if sentencing people to capital punishment is ethical. The foundations of law are often said to be linked to those of religious beliefs. The term “In God We Trust” is often thrown around when debating on if a person should be sentenced to death is reasonable or not (Keane, 2008).…

the number of minority inmates and young adults getting sentenced to jail or prison has increased. In result, of all these high number of inmates getting booked in jail; has made our jails and prisons overcrowded. 2. Most of the local county jails do not offer special jail-based treatment programs, for the reason that inmates stay there for a small amount of time. In the other hand, bigger facilities such as prisons do offer special programs to the inmates. Since, inmates in prison are…

anything to lose. The person with a minor crime is sent to a correctional facility with hundreds of dangerous inmates who could easily snatch his/her head in a heartbeat. They could cut their throat with special knife they make to stab with no mercy. Some inmates kill because it is in their nature and is what they know but they also have inmates who dislike guards for no particular reason. Some inmates oftentimes start problems because they want to punish the officers for revenge. “Hard Rock…

Shawshank Prison, I saw an unidentified inmate enter the laundry room. That inmate was later identified as Dufresne (37927/E112). I saw two other unidentified inmates come from behind the laundry barrel; one inmate was later identified as Boggs (31804/B234). The second inmate, was later identified as Conroy (31428/B234). I saw that Dufresne took a step back with a startled look on his face so I used my radio to call in a possible Code Yellow (inmates fighting). Dufresne pushed off the lid…

inmate’s live and surveillance. Besides, his difference within the inmates and his impact on them allow us to picture the moral career of McMurphy. In the movie, several characteristics of total institution could be observed. First, it is reflected that in total institution people will do everything in the same place, within a defined area and some of the things could only happened…