Corrections

Our correction origins come from the European workhouse were offenders that committed minor crimes was sent to (Gabbidon & Greene, 2013). England created three kinds of facilities which are jail, house of corrections, and workhouse and they made there way to America to be the foundation of our corrections. Jail has not change much from colonial time to now. It is still expensive to build and maintain, but during the colonial time must offenders were not sentence to prison (Gabbidon & Greene,…

The fact that community corrections is intended to ensure Recidivism in the criminal justice system, both community corrections and probation represent an essential component in maintaining the primary mission of corrections to incarceration representing both a sustainable and cost-effective means of reducing recidivism. The lack of health care, and particular needs of special needs offenders are not adequately being met, the special needs of women, offenders with mental illnesses and sexual…

criminal justice system that wants to see change in inmates so they will not have to come back to prison and can be a productive member of society. But for profit-hungry corporations such as Corrections Corp of America (CCA) and GEO Group incarceration is a $70 billion gold mine (Whitehead, 2012). Corrections Corp of America made a proposal to prison officials in 48 states to buy and manage public prisons at a low cost but they want at least 1,000 beds and have the state agree to maintaining a…

in parole, but I also learned that more than one-third of prisoners are under parole supervision all with the purpose to adjust into society. Moreover, with previous knowledge in the chapters I managed to understand that one of the reasons why corrections like parole exist is not only to improve individuals, but to also avoid prison overcrowding which is why about half of the population on parole release are under mandatory release. Mandatory release is part of a release mechanism that consists…

officially termed extended restrictive housing. Offenders at this custody level have killed or seriously assaulted staff or other offenders and not out of their cell more than an hour a day. The director of prisons for the state department of corrections, Mr. Calhoun, has decided to disband the current extended restrictive housing policy based on current inclinations that it is inhumane. Allowing offenders the opportunity to be out of their cell for…

midyear 2010 and 2014. In Colorado, women account for approximately 18.1% of the community corrections population which equates to 4,152 women (Community Corrections Profile, 2014; Walker we at., 2014). In addition, Walker et al. (2014) elaborate describe the status of substance use among females in Colorado Community Corrections: In comparison to male offenders, female offenders in community corrections generally had higher LSI scores, indicating higher risk and need; higher…

There are roughly 1,300 state, federal, and privately run prisons in the United States (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Depending on the location in the U.S., the state prison system ranges from nearly fifty percent under maximum amount of prisoners allowed to almost fifty percent over the maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The federal prison system in total is running approximately forty percent over maximum amount of prisoners allowed. The fact that both state and federal prison systems are…

“Most of those released from prison today have serious social and medical problems. They remain largely uneducated, unskilled, and usually without solid family supports....”( Petersilia 3). When people think of prisons and corrections, they automatically assume people are going to jail and staying there. However, most of those people go to prison where they have to face the harsh reality of not having family come visit them, they may not like the food, abuse from other inmates including officers…

Residing in the unincorporated Tattnall County outside of Reidsville, GA is the home of Georgia’s Department of Corrections (GDC), formerly the Georgia Industrial Institute, purchased by the state in 1937 for approximately 1.3 million dollars. The facility had renovation done in 2007. The prison originally housed juvenile delinquents. It’s now a medium security state prison. This prison is the oldest still running correctional institution in the state of Georgia. Just like Georgia’s state prison…

can be very dangerous to fellow officers as well as the inmates. Like the article states, "In prison, contraband can mean life or death." (Crohsc 2014) Cell Phone in particular is one of the few but many that can be harmful to society and the correction institution. Cell Phones are dangerous to correctional officers because it can cause chaos inside of a prison. They can be used to call members of a gang who was once incarcerated, so they can smuggle in drugs. This is a big problem because …