...Physical, Dynamic and Procedural Security Considerations in a Custodial Environment Physical Security Cells: Cells are essential for the effective security of a prison as they are used for the accommodation of inmates. This is where a prisoner place will spend most of their time during their time in prison. Work, education, rehabilitation programmes, visits or exercise and recreational time are the only times that an inmate can leave their cells. . In some cases an inmate may only leave their cell for a short period of time over a 24 hour period. Inmates’ cells are often checked daily as part of a routine and searches are put in place to ensure high levels of security and safety are upheld. <> Prison Officers: Prison officers have a critical role in physical security as they will have the job of patrolling the prison and surrounding areas to ensure that they are secure. They will also guard critical areas such as the main entrance and cell blocks. Throughout the day and night they will conduct routine checks of all security areas - some will be frequently checked whilst others will be checked when necessary. They will also have the role of responding quickly to alarms or calls for backup from colleagues well as questioning and reporting suspicious behavior. Search Area: The search area will cover the whole prison, however some areas will be searched on a regular basis (routine) whilst other areas will be checked when security concerns or information available suggests...
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...Recently many conversations in the judicial system have brought up the topic of prison overcrowding. While the situation has been brought up more often with in the past years, the overcrowding issue has been around since the 1970s. Prison overcrowding is a social phenomenon occurring when the demand for space in prisons in a jurisdiction exceeds the capacity for prisoners in the place. It occurs when the rate at which people are incarcerated exceeds the rate at which other prisoners are released or die, thereby freeing up prison space. Through years of neglecting problems within the correctional system of the United States, federal and state courts have unfailingly ruled that prison populations must be reduced (Pitts, Griffin, & Johnson, 2014)....
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...expenditures on prison treatment and rehabilitation programs. To respond to this assignment, the student undertook desk research, wrote and submitted this paper. Keywords: prison treatment, rehabilitation programs, cost, expense, investment Introduction: The context for extra spending Many sections of the United States government over the past several years have experienced severe budget cuts due the Great Recession. Some education departments have experienced double digit percentage cuts, leading to layoffs among both faculty and administrative personnel. Hospitals, public transportation, and many other government departments have experienced layoffs, working hour reductions, cuts in pay, and cuts in resourcing. With these cost-reduction measures imposed in many government departments, it would be difficult to persuade the tax-paying public that anything currently deserves an increase in spending. If most parts of society must cut back on budgets and services, why should the public tolerate extra spending to help those who have actively broken the law? Many would argue that preference should be given to extra spending for law-abiding citizens. This paper explores how to justify to the tax-paying public an increase in expenditure on prison treatment and rehabilitation programs, and finds that the most effective method is to demonstrate to the public that increased spending on such programs actually cuts the overall cost of correctional spending. Once extra spending on...
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...Thanks to (SARA) we now know the causes of found in the American prison system but how could we possibly fix this problem all well trying to decrease the cost prisons put on the taxpayers. Well there are several possibilities which includes letting first offenders and non-violent offenders off on community service shortening prison sentences for low-level offenders and transferring inmates with mental illness is over to Mental Health Institute. By implementing the solutions we can see a decrease in the prison population with hardly any extra cost to the tax payers. The American prison system currently houses over 1.5 million people and according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics 47 percent of all prisoners in the US is incarcerated for nonviolent crimes. That means that roughly 750,000 people who have never posted violent threats to are currently incarcerated. Imagine if instead of receiving prison sentences these offenders receive court ordered community service hours. These offenders could serve anywhere from 100 service hours to several 2000 service hours depending on the crime. The majority of the fender sign would then be spent working for non-profit organizations and working to benefit the community. We would see an overall benefit in the community and can serve as a warning to the offenders that far worse is to come should they decide to become repeat offenders. That solutions take care of nonviolent offenders but what do we do about offenders who...
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...The histories of the state and federal prison systems are alike but there are many differences in which make both systems very unique. The federal system usually has people incarcerated for extended periods of time and many people refer to the federal system to be associated with white collar criminals and state prisoners as blue collar criminals. From tons of books filled with knowledge of the original history of the federal prison system allows us to understand more on how and when all this originated. The history of the federal system started back in the 1890s but it was not until 1930 when president Hoover signed a bill establishing a federal prison system that would actually start the building of actual federal facilities. During this time the federal system was relying on the state and local levels of government to house their prisoners. The increase of the federal system was persistent since there was a rise in the United States government. Within the federal prison system there are some security levels which classify prisoners and institutions as minimum, low, medium, high and administrative. There are so many types of state jails that contain different types of security levels. “The state prison levels include level one minimum security, level two medium security, level three high security and a recently added in the last decade level four super maximum security. One type of institution is referred to as an open security facility in which has minimal staff.” (Burk...
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...Section e. Controlling Section Financial Section VIII. Financial Budget & Explanation Page 23 IX. Summary Page 24 Introduction This strategic management plan will address and offer suggestions to rectify an organizational problem in the state of Mississippi. In our opinion, it is a problem that the state continues to plan to build and invest in correctional facilities based on indicators that forecast the number of citizen that will end up in prison. Rather than only using these forecasting indicators guide decision making about increasing correctional facility capacities, we believe the state of Mississippi should use these indicators to develop preventative programs to keep citizens out of prison. The indicators used by the state of Mississippi to determine future prison population are 1) The average third grade reading levels of students across the state and 2) The average number of prisoners released from prison...
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...Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is an issue that has been present for many years now. Yet, there have been no solution or plans attempted to be put in place to change this issue. Many have proposed, but none met the standards set by the government. So, how many are locked up you ask? Too many! Just in this country alone, 2.4 million people are incarcerated. What you propose we do? A normal incentive program that would be used to decrease crowding in our state and federal prisons would be work release and community service. But, how about we now think outside think box, instead of inside! Let's super-crowd our prisons! Though this would be a temporary, this new incentive would create a vast change that we are looking for. If we were to close half of the prisons in the country, then forcing two times as many prisoners into one cell and then double as many in one block of the prison, it could turn out to be very effective and beneficial. Who wouldn't want our prisoners bonding during the day and snuggling at night, right? And, by closing half of the prisons, taxes would be cut by the government because they would not require as many tax-dollars to run the system. Thus, creating and large number of unneeded taxes. What do we use is for? Our country could use a large number of jobs to less our unemployment rate and maybe even that little issue called poverty. In this day and age, our prisoners live like… what was it Lil wayne said ¨ I ain't got no worries!¨ Prison is...
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... Confinement of People After determining the laws, key leader had to come up with ways to keep people who broke the rules away from the good citizen. One solution was to move away from biblical argument. By the 1820s, most states had amended their penal codes. In 1793 William Bradford and the attorney general of the United States showed interest in the old penal codes. Bradford (1793,1792) Places where people were held was call prison, big house and other names;during these time of adjusting the condition in some prison was horrible, and the way the prisoner were treated wasn't good either. One of the roles that prisons played in many states was based off of two systems the Auburn and Pennsylvania. The Auburn system the prisoner worked in silence but together, and the Pennsylvania system they worked silence and isolated, both systems worked in some ways but didn't in others. Prisoner started going insane and it was to much to handle. Thomas Blomberg (2000). The prisons started to grow fast during the 1800s and 1900s century, and were the prisons used methods...
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...senior criminologist, discusses the tailoring of the inmate to the appropriate facility. Finally, Orlando Boyce, a sergeant at the fictional Deephall correctional facility, discusses measures that could conceivably make prison life effective and thus decrease the likelihood of recidivism. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: 1.Outline your findings from your review of the file of Kris, for whom Robert is considering probation. State whether or not your results from the file review match Robert’s. Explain two (2) instances in which your views and those of Robert are both similar and different. 2.Develop a profile of the so-called perfect candidate to participate in an intensive supervised probation program. The profile should contain at least three (3) attributes that you believe make this defendant the perfect candidate for this type of probation. 3.Defend or critique the strategy of matching the inmate to the correctional facility as a response to the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. Provide a rationale for your position with concrete examples. 4.Defend or critique whether programs and amenities geared to making prison life effective—which run the gamut from hiring extra officers, to counseling and therapy, to building a garden—are time and taxpayer money well spent. 5.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not...
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...Victorian prisons and punishments The removal of a person’s freedom has been used since ancient history as a form of punishment. The Victorian period went through a lot of changes in how people were caught, arrested and charged. They were trying to find an efficient way to slow down the raising crime rates . The victorian era didn’t have any form of police. That is known today, it wasn’t until 1856 when they were finally introduced. Before then, most towns had an unpaid “policemen” known as parish to keep citizens in check. The first professional policeman, were set up in England was known as “Peelers” or “Bobbies” in 1829 by Robert Peel. “It was the start of a campaign to improve public law. Reform, however, it was slow because there was distrust of the police at all levels” (1). The first official police uniform had a long blue coat that came with a tall hard hat, that would protect them from blows to the head and could also be used as a step stool to look over walls . Their only weapon was a truncheon, and they would raise alarm or attention by shaking loud rattles. Even though the crime rate was rising faster than a skorn snake, most counties refused...
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...driving violations or other alcohol related crimes, probation officers may use technology to monitor alcohol consumption. Offenders are required to wear alcohol monitoring bracelets that alerts probation officers if the offender has consumed alcohol. Probation officers are also able to use mobile automated fingerprinting systems to help monitor offenders. This technology allows officers to identify individuals and match fingerprints taken anywhere in the field with the offenders mug shots that are already on file. Many probation departments use databases and standardized software to collect information about those on probation some probation officers use videoconferencing to interview inmates so they do not have to spend time driving to prisons. However, even though the probation officer has all different types of technology it will still impact her ability to maintain contact because the probationer may do something like detach the bracelet or not respond to phone calls or emails and disappear but one way the probation officers can avoid that is if they install something that no matter where the probationer is it will detect his exact location and this device is something that cannot be taken off no matter how hard the...
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...and left you no sense of having filled your belly” (Solzhenitsyn 17). While mealtime may not be satisfying, Shukhov still utilizes more manners than most of the men in the prison. He fashioned a spoon out of “aluminum wire,” which he uses at every meal (16). He also always removes his hat before eating as a sign of respect that he learned growing up (16). These simple, yet polite and respectful actions hint to the reader that Ivan Denisovich has not regressed into a crude...
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...In the UK prisoners can get out of prison early without serving their full sentence in prison. According to the Sentencing Council, the judge in the hearing will decide the sentence and also how long the defendant will spend in prison. Although offenders usually spend only half their sentence inside prison and the other half of their sentence is spent on license. However if the offender breaks the conditions applied to their license they will be sent back to prison to carry out the remainder of their sentence. Judges and Magistrates have no control over the half in prison and half on license sentence this was implemented by the UK Parliament (Sentencing Council). Where is the justice to be seen, for the victims in these cases? Victims are often considered the forgotten party within the justice system. As statistics taken from Justice.Gov (2013) showed that between April 2010 and March 2011 it was estimated that “550’000 adult offenders were cautioned, convicted or released from custody”. Around 25 per cent of those were shown to have reoffended in this study. With these statistics it’s clearly not very reassuring for any victims in these cases that the punishment for the crime has (Justice.Gov, 2013). According to Open Justice (2012) when the offender has reached that half point in their sentence, an independent body such as the Parole Board has the decision to deem if it is safe to release the offender under license. If the Parole Board decides it is safe they will set...
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...Overcrowding in Prisons. Overcrowding in prisons is one of the biggest challenges facing the American criminal justice system today. The total population of prisons and jails in the United States neared the 2.1 million mark in June 2003, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported incarceration rates of state and federal prisoners continued to rise. At midyear 2003, the number of sentenced inmates was 480 per 100,000 U.S. residents, up from 476 per 100,000 on December 31, 2002. There were 238 jail inmates for every 100,000 on June 30, 2003. Overall, one out of every 140 U.S residents was incarcerated in prison or in jail. During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s state and local governments got tougher on crime by passing legislation calling for mandatory sentences for repeat offenders, such as California’s “three strikes you’re out” law and New York and other cities adopted the “Broken Windows” strategy that called for the arrest and prosecution of all crimes large and small. Because of these polices the number of violent crimes has dropped. Unfortunately, one unintended consequence of America’s new tough stance on crime is that our prison system has become dangerously overcrowded, forcing prison officials to release violent criminals after serving...
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...than millions are incarcerated in federal prison, state prisons and county jail. Many people are rearrested while on parole or probation. On top of all this, correctional facilities have many problems like undereducated inmate, prison overcrowding, rehabilitation, too cushy prison conditions, and the need for longer sentences. Undereducated The fact is that , if parolees are released with the skills needed to obtain and keep a job, they will find themselved back in the same place where they just left, jail. Finding meaning jobs, getting GED's and post secondary education and a strond support factor is need to keep them on the streets. Many inmates are undereducated with low reading, writing and communication skills. Those who participate in correctional educational programs have a better chance of staying in the community and finding a job or career. Comparing now to ten years ago, prisons were just meant for punishing. Now, correctional facilites are opening more options to inmate to rehabilitate. GED classes, law books, parenting classes, anger management are more available. More programs are designed more to the inmates needs than academic. For example, many have mental and substance abuse needs. With the right education, inmates and correctional are looking for ways to eliminate these problems before a person is re-entered into society. Inmates need help to adapt to the outside world they are about to enter when released from prison. Rather than have an inmate just be...
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