There is a wide range visitation policies throughout the United States. Reviewing these policies enables a state-by-state comparison throughout a group of customary classifications of visitation-related policies. This study presents a summation of the findings from prison visitation policies in fifty of the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in the US and in the system of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). It focuses on policy directives, administrative regulations, and facility-specific rules. This study summaries how the visitation policies impact recidivism, how the policies effect inmates and their families’ quality of life. It also reviews the effects on public safety, prison security, identifies interconnections and differences in the
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South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado, provide extended family visitation in some facilities. California, Connecticut, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and, Washington permit a form of overnight family visitation. The state of Tennessee permits for outdoor visits such as cooking and picnicking for lower security inmates, or extended visits with families in monitored visitation rooms, they do not permit overnight visiting. The state policy directives do not provide adequate elements for a significant comparison of the overnight visitation program. Participation in extended and or overnight visitation program could prove to be an incentive for compliant behaviors of inmates. This type of visitation can also strengthen family ties thus facilitating uncomplicated transition from incarceration to home and the …show more content…
It is thought that additional research tracking the language in policies referring to children, gender, and marital status is needed. Researcher should analyze the methods in which children male/female, and married/unmarried individuals are specially controlled in the environment of prison visitation. Another study could examine the distinct methods that visitation policies define the term family, and how family members are granted distinctive privileges.
Conclusions
Comparing visitation policies to other advanced democracies in the United States suggests that American incarceration is about more than the numbers. Incarceration in the United States is qualitatively distinct. Operating visitation programs that are characteristic of reducing recidivism in the United States would reduce the overcrowding the Department of Justice is encountering. If the goal is to reduce recidivism and bring incarcerated individuals home to stay, then a progressive visitation policy is an excellent place to
South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado, provide extended family visitation in some facilities. California, Connecticut, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and, Washington permit a form of overnight family visitation. The state of Tennessee permits for outdoor visits such as cooking and picnicking for lower security inmates, or extended visits with families in monitored visitation rooms, they do not permit overnight visiting. The state policy directives do not provide adequate elements for a significant comparison of the overnight visitation program. Participation in extended and or overnight visitation program could prove to be an incentive for compliant behaviors of inmates. This type of visitation can also strengthen family ties thus facilitating uncomplicated transition from incarceration to home and the …show more content…
It is thought that additional research tracking the language in policies referring to children, gender, and marital status is needed. Researcher should analyze the methods in which children male/female, and married/unmarried individuals are specially controlled in the environment of prison visitation. Another study could examine the distinct methods that visitation policies define the term family, and how family members are granted distinctive privileges.
Conclusions
Comparing visitation policies to other advanced democracies in the United States suggests that American incarceration is about more than the numbers. Incarceration in the United States is qualitatively distinct. Operating visitation programs that are characteristic of reducing recidivism in the United States would reduce the overcrowding the Department of Justice is encountering. If the goal is to reduce recidivism and bring incarcerated individuals home to stay, then a progressive visitation policy is an excellent place to