To understand the prison or jail systems, you must first understand the meaning of our criminal justice systems. The criminal justice system is the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws. (National Center for Victims of Crime, 2012). There is no single criminal justice system in the United States of America, the criminal justice system is divided in jurisdictions such a city (police officer, court and jail), county (police officer, court and jail), state (police officer, court, jail and prison), federal (federal agency, federal court and federal prison) or tribal government or military installation. (National Center for Victims of Crime, 2012). Working with many
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Study has shown there are building more prison and jail systems now than school. Peoples are having a harder time in today’s society trying to find a career or a job that they are willing to go to every day. Citizens are struggling to pay their bills, buy food and afford to have somewhere to live. There are more citizens committing crimes just to have some of the things they want or need to live among society. There are more peoples within society that are willing to “keep up with the Jones” and tried to fix in with their peers that they would commit crime. When the offenders are caught and sentence for the crime they have committed. The offenders become more of a criminal within the prison systems and they would be forced to move to another prison. Among the 40 states that participated in a survey, the cost of prisons was $39 billion in fiscal year 2010, $5.4 billion more than what their corrections budgets reflected. (Henrichson & Delaney, 2012). The prices with it cost to build a prison systems cost 3 times more than a school …show more content…
Average cost to incarcerate a prisoner for a year is $20,142, average cost to incarcerate a prisoner per day is $55.18 and value of annual market selling collect phone calls to prisoners and their families is $1 billion. (Prison Policy Initiative). Life for inmates within the prison system is not exciting. The average person can only imagine the feeling of a justice system taking your freedom away from you for a mistake that you have been accused of committing. Inmates are told when to sleep, wake up, eat, showers, go outside, make phone call, work and spend quality time with their family member when they come to visit them at prison. Correction Officers for the prison is not an easy task. Correction Officers are out number by the inmates at least 20 to 1. Correction Officers duties are maintaining security and control over inmates, ensuring that jail or prison inmates comply with rules and regulations, periodically inspect cells and other areas to ensure adequate sanitation, prevent security breaches and halt the smuggling of contraband, such as weapons or drugs, recordkeeping and transported the inmates. The crime inmates are in prison for can range from a smaller crime to a bigger crime such as; shoplifting, theft, assaults, rape, damaged to property, kidnapping and drugs. Depending on the case and if the inmates record sentencing can arrange from 2 years in
Study has shown there are building more prison and jail systems now than school. Peoples are having a harder time in today’s society trying to find a career or a job that they are willing to go to every day. Citizens are struggling to pay their bills, buy food and afford to have somewhere to live. There are more citizens committing crimes just to have some of the things they want or need to live among society. There are more peoples within society that are willing to “keep up with the Jones” and tried to fix in with their peers that they would commit crime. When the offenders are caught and sentence for the crime they have committed. The offenders become more of a criminal within the prison systems and they would be forced to move to another prison. Among the 40 states that participated in a survey, the cost of prisons was $39 billion in fiscal year 2010, $5.4 billion more than what their corrections budgets reflected. (Henrichson & Delaney, 2012). The prices with it cost to build a prison systems cost 3 times more than a school …show more content…
Average cost to incarcerate a prisoner for a year is $20,142, average cost to incarcerate a prisoner per day is $55.18 and value of annual market selling collect phone calls to prisoners and their families is $1 billion. (Prison Policy Initiative). Life for inmates within the prison system is not exciting. The average person can only imagine the feeling of a justice system taking your freedom away from you for a mistake that you have been accused of committing. Inmates are told when to sleep, wake up, eat, showers, go outside, make phone call, work and spend quality time with their family member when they come to visit them at prison. Correction Officers for the prison is not an easy task. Correction Officers are out number by the inmates at least 20 to 1. Correction Officers duties are maintaining security and control over inmates, ensuring that jail or prison inmates comply with rules and regulations, periodically inspect cells and other areas to ensure adequate sanitation, prevent security breaches and halt the smuggling of contraband, such as weapons or drugs, recordkeeping and transported the inmates. The crime inmates are in prison for can range from a smaller crime to a bigger crime such as; shoplifting, theft, assaults, rape, damaged to property, kidnapping and drugs. Depending on the case and if the inmates record sentencing can arrange from 2 years in