Community Corrections
This is the management of offenders in the community who have already been convicted. Community corrections are an alternative to imprisonment (schamalleger, 2011). Offenders report regularly to their community officers and may be forced to participate in unpaid community work and rehabilitation programs ("community corrections"). The community corrections include probation, parole and pretrial supervision. Probation entails the release of an offender to the community under supervision, parole is the conditional supervised release from jail and pretrial supervision is the close monitoring of an individual before trial.
Community correction plays a major role in ensuring safety of the community by diverting low-risk offenders …show more content…
It shifts the burden of corrections from institutions to communities. This reduces operational costs of such facilities by reducing the number of prisoners in them. This translates to less tax being paid by the citizens to run such facilities.
Community corrections also breaks the cycle of reoffending by developing the offenders capabilities and treating those with problems such as personality disorders (McGarry, p. 7). This promotes overall safety of the community by breaking the cycle of crime. Training the individuals also prevent them from being dependent on others and therefore give them alternative sources of income.
The community corrections are an effective way to reduce crime. This is majorly through learning a close supervision of the offender. The close supervision ensures that the offender abides to the rules and regulations stipulated. The offender tries as much as possible to follow the set conditions in order to avoid jail.
Community corrections also prevents breakup of family and social relationship (schamalleger, 2011, p. 115,116). The individual is not separated from his/her family and therefore he/she is given the necessary support to change for the better. The family is therefore strong and kept …show more content…
There prisoners live in poor conditions and suffer constant violations. In some developing countries, prisoners rely on their relatives to supplement their diet by bringing food to them. Other prison systems lock up prisoners for more than 18 hours in a day.
However some other countries view prison as a correction facility and therefore they aim to teach the offenders the right path instead of causing them to suffer. The prisons in such countries are of high standards and prisoners are treated in a more humane manner. Programs aimed at training the prisoners are available and there is a lot of investment in the prisons.
Adoption of the open prison system in the USA would be beneficial to the in mates, the government and the community in general. The inmates would benefit from more freedom. They would still remain productive while still serving their sentences in the prison. They could go to work and attend school and other activities that would improve their quality of life and that of their families.
The open system would also help the government in reducing the cost of operating the prisons. This is because there is reduced supervision of the inmates therefore reducing the need to hire more staff. The prisoners who work also pay a certain amount of tax thus boosting government
This is the management of offenders in the community who have already been convicted. Community corrections are an alternative to imprisonment (schamalleger, 2011). Offenders report regularly to their community officers and may be forced to participate in unpaid community work and rehabilitation programs ("community corrections"). The community corrections include probation, parole and pretrial supervision. Probation entails the release of an offender to the community under supervision, parole is the conditional supervised release from jail and pretrial supervision is the close monitoring of an individual before trial.
Community correction plays a major role in ensuring safety of the community by diverting low-risk offenders …show more content…
It shifts the burden of corrections from institutions to communities. This reduces operational costs of such facilities by reducing the number of prisoners in them. This translates to less tax being paid by the citizens to run such facilities.
Community corrections also breaks the cycle of reoffending by developing the offenders capabilities and treating those with problems such as personality disorders (McGarry, p. 7). This promotes overall safety of the community by breaking the cycle of crime. Training the individuals also prevent them from being dependent on others and therefore give them alternative sources of income.
The community corrections are an effective way to reduce crime. This is majorly through learning a close supervision of the offender. The close supervision ensures that the offender abides to the rules and regulations stipulated. The offender tries as much as possible to follow the set conditions in order to avoid jail.
Community corrections also prevents breakup of family and social relationship (schamalleger, 2011, p. 115,116). The individual is not separated from his/her family and therefore he/she is given the necessary support to change for the better. The family is therefore strong and kept …show more content…
There prisoners live in poor conditions and suffer constant violations. In some developing countries, prisoners rely on their relatives to supplement their diet by bringing food to them. Other prison systems lock up prisoners for more than 18 hours in a day.
However some other countries view prison as a correction facility and therefore they aim to teach the offenders the right path instead of causing them to suffer. The prisons in such countries are of high standards and prisoners are treated in a more humane manner. Programs aimed at training the prisoners are available and there is a lot of investment in the prisons.
Adoption of the open prison system in the USA would be beneficial to the in mates, the government and the community in general. The inmates would benefit from more freedom. They would still remain productive while still serving their sentences in the prison. They could go to work and attend school and other activities that would improve their quality of life and that of their families.
The open system would also help the government in reducing the cost of operating the prisons. This is because there is reduced supervision of the inmates therefore reducing the need to hire more staff. The prisoners who work also pay a certain amount of tax thus boosting government