The statistics given about how many psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists that were available and how many inmates there were in relation was mind blowing. Also, keeping with staff, the staff that was employed were not trained professionals. Again, mentioned above, it was hard for the staff to correctly classify the offenders to get them where they needed to be, so this is a failure as well in regards to the philosophy at the time. Finally, we did see prisoners’ rights start to be recognized however, the system reverted back, and still used lashings, and flogging along with other horrible methods of punishment which was in contradiction to their philosophy (Morris & Rothman,
The statistics given about how many psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists that were available and how many inmates there were in relation was mind blowing. Also, keeping with staff, the staff that was employed were not trained professionals. Again, mentioned above, it was hard for the staff to correctly classify the offenders to get them where they needed to be, so this is a failure as well in regards to the philosophy at the time. Finally, we did see prisoners’ rights start to be recognized however, the system reverted back, and still used lashings, and flogging along with other horrible methods of punishment which was in contradiction to their philosophy (Morris & Rothman,