We had an opportunity to tour the facility where our fellow classmates are serving their sentence. Joseph Harp Correctional Center is a medium security facility that houses a total of about 1,400 offenders. It is the largest medium security facility in the state. This facility is full of diverse groups of individuals. It houses a variety of offenders like the mentally ill and youthful offenders.…
Once the facility has been able to subdue or maintain the prisoner’s mental health, then they would be transferred to the prison to complete their incarceration and they would continue to supply their medication with regular mental health…
There is this question we all ask ourselves what is it or why is it that when a prisoner is released from prison they often reoffend and returns to prison? If an inmate has been in prison a long period of time they become immune, adapt, Stockholm syndrome, but the correct word in this case is institutionalization. " Institutionalized Personality Traits are caused by living in an oppressive environment that demands: passive compliance to the demands of authority figures, passive acceptance of severely restricted acts of daily living, the repression of personal lifestyle preferences, the elimination of critical thinking and individual decision making, and internalized acceptance of severe restrictions on the honest self-expression thoughts and…
The Trans- Alleghany Insane Asylum It started on a weekend in May, our school decided to plan a field trip to a mysterious building in the western part of Virginia. Don’t ask me why though—we’re all surprised they even considered it. The funny thing is, our school hasn’t taken a field trip in three years, and this is the first placed they decided to go to. The whole situation was quite strange.…
Restorative prisons can help many people beyond the perpetrator despite that fact the perpetrator is the only one being treated in these restorative prisons. According to Bazemore (1998), victims are fine with the offender being treated with restorative justice ways. This supports that the victims will not feel like the offender is getting off too easy in restorative prisons. These prisons also help the community because once the perpetrator is out of the restorative prisons they are part of the working community again. This is an outcome of the perpetrator having to help out around the prison and actually do things versus other prisons where offenders just sit in a cell all day.…
This causes behaviors to worsen the longer they are in isolation. Prisons systems use this punishment to “break down” the individual, so they will follow the rules and not feel any empathy for how they are feeling. The sad reality is it actually makes they person worse off in the behavioral area then when they entered. One man actually started freaking out in his cell so the guards would tear gas the…
There are some good reasons to use solitary confinement but it is not always the best idea. It has lasting psychological effects, they will most likely commit…
In this paper, I am going to describe the characteristics of isolation, the goals we intended to accomplish with the implementation of isolation, the effects it has on inmates, and some potential alternatives or alterations we can make to lessen the negative effects while not placing other parties in physical danger. For those who are not aware of what isolation is, it is the act of locking an inmate in a cell anywhere from…
My friends are being taken, used, and then just tossed away. They drag us out of our hiding place and scar us with graphite needles. I hope that I will never be taken, unlike hundreds of my colleagues. In the back of my frightened mind I know, one day I will end up like the others; beaten and tossed to the side in a large, plastic grave. The darkness is deteriorating, never knowing when they will tear me out of my metal prison.…
Inmates are often free to cook, clean, watch television, go outside and do their own laundry and dishes. This promotes that idea of reintegration and allows inmates to learn to trust one another and make relationships over the bonding rehabilitative experiences they are subjected to that we would simply consider every day…
Nonresidential intermediate sanctions allow offenders to reside at home while participating in programs and adhering to a strict set of rules and guidelines to ensure they are deterred from crime while not in physical custody. For pretrial detainees who voluntarily and convicted offenders house arrest serves as a way to confine those who cannot afford bail or whose personal recognizance is not enough to be unsupervised. The main purpose of house arrest is not to stop criminal behavior, but to reduce the offender’s movement. House arrest will not stop criminal behavior, since they are still in their communities and have ample opportunity to associate with the same neighborhood criminals. House arrest can be supported by electronic monitoring…
Ultimately, the correctional system is not designed to be a therapeutic environment; although there is mental health treatment available for some inmates, correctional institutions do not have the adequate staffing nor resources to properly treat the mentally ill at that level…
Many prisoners give up hope because of the fear of there being no return to their old life. Becoming a prisoner usually means you are leaving others behind and the knowledge that…
Liberation naturally lends a multitude of emotions to the object of liberation, and in this case forceful liberation would produce even more so. The prisoner is not aware that his liberation is a positive event that will cause drastic and wonderful changes to his life. He knows only of the darkness he was born in, raised in, and, through our eyes, tortured in. He will be dragged out kicking and screaming, and he will resent the light and the strange world it is kept in, one of the last emotions he will feel is “sorry” for his former prisoners. Even so, the “sorry” he feels may be a conflicting one, and the mentality towards his former captors may also remain ambiguous, what is it that goes through the mind of a former prisoner of the dark brought…
Therefore, the jail inmates are faced many serious problems. There are a significant amount prisoner’s abuse and violence inside the prisons. When you have the mix of people that come from unstable families, have any substance abuse or psychological problems history with violence and mistreatment from another inmate; this will only make the matters worse. Mental health providers working in prison have to have an unbiased worldview on many types of inmates. This is not an easy feat for many people.…