According to Bureau of Justice Statistics term corrections refers to the supervision of people who have been convicted of, arrested for or sentenced for criminal offence. Any action that involves criminal offenders after they have been convicted is meant to be corrective, changing their behavior to become closer to society’s norms. Corrections include in itself a variety of facilities, programs or services. It could be a community service like cleaning up the streets or a person could be on a parole and regularly reporting to a parole authority. Since we live in a society that has particular norms and regulations, it is important that the offenders would be changed to better suit in society (Clear, 2012, p.8). Corrections, just like any
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If we take those two models in comparison that some things that were similar in them would be: in both models offenders were redeemed through well- ordered routine of the prisons; both of them had strict discipline and basically both, New York and Pennsylvania systems intended to have a better correctional management of inmates, also in both models inmates were kept in their cells. However, I think that the differences of those two models are much more significant. For example, in New York (Auburn) system, unlike in Pennsylvania system, inmates slept in their cells but they gathered together to eat and work but in Pennsylvania system they had to stay in their cells all the time and do all activities only there. They were isolated from other inmates, which caused mental breakdowns. Another difference is activities performed by inmates. In New York model prisoners worked together in shops, even though under rule of silence, they were producing goods that were later sold by the state. In Pennsylvania model just like said earlier, all activities including Bible reading were performed within the calls of the cell (Clear, 2012, p.17-18).
I personally think that the New York (Auburn) system was more effective and it is a better choice of correctional system. Even though prisoners are incarcerated for a reason but they are still human beings, and by our nature we cannot
If we take those two models in comparison that some things that were similar in them would be: in both models offenders were redeemed through well- ordered routine of the prisons; both of them had strict discipline and basically both, New York and Pennsylvania systems intended to have a better correctional management of inmates, also in both models inmates were kept in their cells. However, I think that the differences of those two models are much more significant. For example, in New York (Auburn) system, unlike in Pennsylvania system, inmates slept in their cells but they gathered together to eat and work but in Pennsylvania system they had to stay in their cells all the time and do all activities only there. They were isolated from other inmates, which caused mental breakdowns. Another difference is activities performed by inmates. In New York model prisoners worked together in shops, even though under rule of silence, they were producing goods that were later sold by the state. In Pennsylvania model just like said earlier, all activities including Bible reading were performed within the calls of the cell (Clear, 2012, p.17-18).
I personally think that the New York (Auburn) system was more effective and it is a better choice of correctional system. Even though prisoners are incarcerated for a reason but they are still human beings, and by our nature we cannot