Corrections

defendants a chance to escape the stigma of a criminal conviction. Having a offender charged with petty act that can be handled outside the court may subject that individual to having difficulty finding gainful employment as well the overburdening the correction facilities. Also, the cost impact to keep a offender in prison or jail is counterproductive and not worth it if they can be rehabilitated. Diversion is a way to save them before they commit a felony and…

Goffman notion of a “total institution” describes an institution that goes beyond just housing inmates but as a thoughtful systematic system which is set up to control every aspect of one’s structural and social environment, similar to military boot camp. This structural and social environment is somewhat of a protective order where one’s extent of resources and social capital are under bureaucratic control. I call it this because it provides more than just housing or confinement, but an…

increasing number of inmates, considering both longer sentences implied for different kinds of crimes and reduced the chances to discharge from sentence. Some of the older prisoners tend to enter prison in their young age. According to National Corrections Reporting Program in 2009 of Bureau of Justice Statistics based on 24 states of United State, providing year-end prison population data for 2009, 15.2% of inmates who were aged from 61 to 70 in 2009 have got into prison at aged 40 or under…

Legislators continue to adopt mandatory sentencing statutes without regard to the availability of correctional facilities. Selective incapacitation is a strategy that attempts to use objective actuarial evidence to improve the ability of the current system to identify and confine offenders who represent the most serious risk to the community. In the context of overall sentencing reform, selective incapacitation offers the possibility of concentrating scarce and costly prison resources on those…

with the outside world, other than the occasional visitor. Prison wardens need to create more classes and opportunities for convicted felons to prepare for the realities of the outside worlds. The model of corrections that this reform would go under is community corrections. This type of corrections works to help reintegrate criminals back…

Learning about special corrections and special problems concerning to juveniles and female prisoners helped me learn more regarding to this topics. The Federal Bureau has a Central Office, community corrections office, one hundred and sixteen institutions, and six regional offices. The Bureau helps to protects public safety and ensures that federal offenders serve their sentence of imprisonment in establishments that are properly secure, safe, cost efficient, and humane. “The Bureau is…

There are numerous problems that arise within the correction system. Although, one problem stands out the best would be prison overcrowding. Numerous people are committing crimes and being incarcerated. Thus, leading to congestion and problems within the prison facility. This paper will discuss the purpose for prison overpopulation and what can be done to prevent and fix the problem. Overcapacity in prisons has been an ongoing mêlée for the longest time. But with every problem must come a…

Prison overcrowding is one of the key contributing factors to poor prison conditions around the world (Williams and Arrigo, 2012). It is arguably the biggest single problem facing the prison systems. The consequences can be life-threatening at worst and at best when preventing prisons from fulfilling their proper function. Data from 2016, suggested that the number of prisoners exceeded official prison capacity in at least 115 countries (Lawaspect, 2018). On the other hand, 51 countries had a…

foster home. Children deal with a lot of issues due to a loss of a mother which include depression, misery, detachment, and delinquency. Raising the risk that the children end up in prison themselves as adults. “Approximately 70% of all women under correction supervision have at least one child who is under 18”(mallicoat). Many woman feel some kind of shame, remorse, and sadness for not being able to protect their children. In addition mothers feel ashamed to be in prison and does not want their…

Canada’s inmates. Problems persist on how correctional facilities deal with the needs of the Aboriginal people, the complexity of their cultures makes it hard for corrections to treat them like any other inmate. For this reason the aboriginals go through different cultural interventions that help rehabilitate within the corrections or through their communities. While Canadians correctional institutions are setting in Policies such as to further meet the needs of the aboriginal people,…