Prison Overcrowding

The job of a Correctional official is to detect danger in prisons. These same officials can also detect opportunity to make changes and improve the system as well. Within local jails, state prisons and federal penitentiaries, they serve as the voice of authority as they ensure the security and well-being of prisoners. The job of a correctional official is to stop a violent conflict and ensure order within the prison walls and also to support opportunities to rehabilitate prisoners.…

nearly 405 people annually emitted into prison with the death sentence. With these numbers coming in very few death penalties are actually carried through. With these delayed executions have shown to increase costs two fold (Mc Clatchy). The average age found guilty and receiving a death penalties is 29 years old and the average age in which the penalties are finally carried out is 46 years old. So on average an inmate that is facing death row is in prison for 17 years before their execution is…

Prisoners in Poland are organized within the prisons by many different categories. These categories include age, gender, past imprisonment record, intentional or unintentional nature of offense, remaining prison sentence time, physical and mental health, degree of threat to others, and the type of offense. This type of specific organization is extremely important. In the United States, prisoners are not organized in such a fashion. Prisoners will either be in general population or special…

US Prison Systems Have you ever wondered what life was like locked up behind bars? Most people don’t even give it a second thought; we’re used to having our freedoms and living a normal life. However, life is not that simple for everyone; for not everyone knows how to abide by the rules. Inmates don’t get the same basic rights as we do, that gets taken away from them when they violate the social norms with their deviant behavior. There are a wide number of reasons why people get…

Corrections just like the law enforcement and courts have many areas of expertise as well whether it be Probation and Parole - the penal system or jail on a local or federal level, these places are in place to ensure the safety and well being of the prisoner and also to possibly offer some form of rehabilitation in order for them to be released as a better person to society. How do they interact together? This could be and sometimes is on a daily basis. The police-detectives-of the law…

imprisonment will surly make the prison society have a much safer atmosphere.(Colson, Charles. 90) In Mckean prison several measures have been adopted to try and reform the corrections process. These measures have made Mckean one of the most successful and safest medium security prison in the country. "Mckean prison has a growing number of violent offenders admitted and the cost per year for these felons in only approximately $15,370. That is below the average for prisons of its type, and far…

In Bolivia, female penitentiaries are not different from the male penitentiaries. One of the female prisons is worse than the majority of its male counterparts. For example, the San Sebastian female prison is far more overcrowded than other prisons. Juveniles convicted under the Bolivian correctional system are not differentiated from adult criminals and housed under the same prison, with no separations. Adult criminals and juvenile criminals receive very little to no rehabilitation programs to…

In the early 1990’s, negative perceptions of the prison system brought about the “Nothing Works” doctrine, which argued that rehabilitation programs are a waste of the public’s time and money when concerning criminal behavior. Therefore, the Nothing-Works doctrine was the beginning, and brought about the truth-in-sentencing laws that were enacted to reduce the possibility of early release from prison. The primary goal of the truth-in-sentencing laws was focused on retribution and was implemented…

In both The New Jim Crow and The Jail a large topic of discussion is the process of utilizing jailing and imprisonment as a means of controlling certain segments of the population. Both books highlighted the fact that the lowest class of people (rabble being the term used in The Jail) typically commit petty crimes, minor crimes and for which the punishment is usually just a small fine or short term of imprisonment; such as possession of cannabis, burglary and theft, prostitution, vandalism, etc.…

highest incarceration rate in the world; we hold 5% of the world’s population, but house 25% of the world’s prisoners (Kelly 2015). The use of incarceration has gradually become a more acceptable and more used form of punishment. As a result, our prison population is overflowing with offenders ranging from petty theft criminals to violent offenders. As cited in the textbook, purposes of our justice system should be retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation, (Clear, Reisig, &…