Correctional Facility

In the United States, a prison is a building where people are legally held as a punishment for the crimes one has committed or while one is awaiting trial. A jail is a place for the confinement of people who are accused or convicted of a crime. A correctional facility is a term that may be used when referring to a jail, prison or another place of incarceration by government officials. Although a prison, jail and correctional facility all have different names their purposes are the exact same. All three 3 edifices main purpose serves to confine and rehabilitate prisoners, while one is being punished for their crimes. Sadly, this isn’t the case in America. Every year there is over 2.4 million people in prison and out of that around 688,000 are …show more content…
One is not only dealing with adjusting but also dealing with finding a job that will accept felons. Then you those who have been in prison so long and when one is released they have to learn about the new time period. Basically, the culture has changed since one has been in jail and one has to adjust to the new sayings, new swag, new technology, and the new things going on in this period of time. One also has to learn how to follow the laws set by congress again. Since prisoners go through so much in prison the risk of reoffending and reentering society is always hard for them, because of this issue almost 70% of people who have been incarcerated are arrested again within three years. One is so unstable and unable to operate efficiently after being in prison, once back into the real world things are so foreign to them that one has basically no choice but to go back into the dangerous lifestyle one is used …show more content…
This comes from one having to endure so much while in there. Every day is a constant fight for not only one’s life but one’s overall safety and sanity. Prisoners have fight off each other while trying to stay true to one’s self. Every day is a constant struggle of trying to avoid corrupted cops and tainted prisoners. While trying to keep the thought of “one day I will be out of prison and back to my normal life” prisoners soon lose that hope because of the harsh reality. This leads to one getting anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other mental health conditions. Sadly, the prisoners are out of luck if one had a mental health issue before incarcerated, and/or develop it while in prison. It may be required that the facilities have to provide a basic health care for inmates but the quality of this care can vary. Usually, prison-based health care focuses on stabilizing instead of treating, so therefore one would only get medication for severe