Marion County Jail Summary

Throughout history, a country’s judicial system has been known to punish criminal in a manner of which will remove them from society. From the discussion of conditions in the jail in the above case study, I would say the goals were to create a safe environment for both the prisoners and the staffs. According to Flowers (2016) “Built with security and control as the primary concerns, it was, according to one observer, obsolete before it opened” (para. 1). The Marion County Jail was a maximum security facility and the inmates ranged from low to high level offenders who have committed heinous crimes such as murder, rape and theft. The security level in this jail was as high as any maximum security prison. For an old facility, the security features …show more content…
Many countries make use of truth in sentencing or rather incarcerating criminals for committing criminal activities. Jail has always been the form of incarceration in every county. Overcrowding in the county jail had several undesirable effects upon the inmates. According to Stojkovic, Kalinich, & Klofas (2015) “Overcrowded prison system, in turn, will often force decision makers to lower the the classification of higher-risk inmates in order to find available bed space” (p. 350)”. The heuristic fact is that overcrowding prison tend to produce aggression, competition for the limited available resource, increased incidents of sickness, increased likelihood of relapse into criminal behavior and higher rates of suicide. According to Wagner (2016) “To combat that issue, more than 50 inmates are sleeping in cells in different counties across Indiana. 44 of them are in Elkhart County, the rest are scattered in other counties” (para. 6). Generally, overcrowding creates stress in conjunction with other negative factors within the jail setting which can increase the adverse impacts of overcrowding. The inability to maintain identity, fear, idleness, or to rather turn unwanted stimulation and interaction, may contribute to the stress