...The Court stated Correctional Officials have a valid interest and responsibility, to make sure that the jail is secure because of what new inmates may transport in or on their bodies. Inmates incarcerated for minor offenses can turn out to be the most deceitful and dangerous criminals. Justice Kennedy, who wrote in his decision, Courts must accept the judgment of the correctional officials except when the record holds considerable evidence displaying their policies are an unnecessary or unfounded answer to the difficulties of the jail security.[6] In his disagreement, Justice Breyer noted that, a search of an inmate arrested for a minor offense that does not include drugs or violence like a traffic offense, or any other such misdemeanor is an unreasonable search is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, unless prison officials have reasonable suspicion to trust that the inmate holds drugs or other smuggled goods on their...
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...was subject to a strip search. He remained there for six days and then was transferred to the Essex county facility where he was subjected to another strip search and a visual body cavity search. Florence contends that these searches violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment since he was arrested for a minor offense. Procedural History: In 1998, Albert Florence was arrested for fleeing from police officers in Essex County and was charged with obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon. He took a plea deal where he pleaded guilty and his charges where reduced to two lesser offenses. He was sentenced to pay a fine in monthly installments but he failed to keep up with the monthly payments. Not only did he fall behind in his monthly payments but he also failed to appear at an enforcement hearing in which caused him to have a warrant issued for his arrest. Florence paid for the outstanding balance but the warrant was never updated and remained in the database. A state trooper stopped Florence in New Jersey and arrested him after he checked the statewide computer database system and found a bench warrant for his arrest. At the detention center, he was required to shower with a delousing agent and was checked for scars, marks, gang tattoos and contraband, as he was undressed. After being there for six days, he was transferred to the Essex County Correctional Facility where he was once again searched for...
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...The main form of punishment for breaking the law in the United States is incarceration. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that at the end of 2010, there were 2,266,800 adults incarcerated in the U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails (Prisoner Statistics, 2012). When one adds the reported 493,100 corrections staff working inside the prison or jail, the total number of people interacting on a daily basis in this closed society creates conditions where corruption at some level is likely to occur (Bureau, 2012). Research suggests corruption of correction officers, also known as detention officers, or guards is a serious issue that should be continually addressed by facility management because it occurs for many reasons and takes on many forms that can pervert the justice system. This paper will explain some main forms of corruption, give outrageous examples of documented corruption, and spell out why, given the ethics expected of the profession, corruption must be continually addressed and prevented. The first step for criminals is finding the officer with a mindset that can be corrupted. Low to median pay scales for these officers and an increase in offenders affiliated with the gang element of society has increased the potential for corruption related manipulation of prison staff (Diaz, 2009). “Corrections and law enforcement work by its very nature involves the...potential for gradual deterioration of social-moral inhibitions and perceived sense of...
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...was not showing in the system. During his combined stay in Burlington County Detention Center and the Essex County Correctional Facility for 6 days, he complained that he was strip searched, forced to lift his private parts, squat and cough, show various body parts and shower with the delousing soup provided him. [1] Procedural History: He filed a suit claiming a violation of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. His issue is not with being arrested or even...
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...This would go directly against the point of prison as there are a majority of inmates who were imprisoned due to drug related incidents. Also by condoning, the use of sterile needles for tattooing purposes would allow inmates to once again have the ability to create more weapons. Tattooing can also present inmates an opportunity to continue tattooing gang related signs and symbols which is also an undesired outcome in correctional facilities. Prison’s have given three strategies attempts in harm reduction, strategy one is provide bleach for sterilization of equipment, strategy 2 safe-tattooing programs, 3 distribution of sterile needles for safe injection sites (Miller et al.,...
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...Anthony J. Perish Correctional Officers’ Experiences Summary A correctional officer has to keep security to a certain level in a certain prison or jail facility by stopping and preventing any disturbances such as assaults and escapes. Correctional officers must supervise the activities of inmates daily. They must make sure that the inmates do not break the rules and finish their assignments. Correctional officers supervisor expect them to perform their job correctly while interacting professionally to the inmates. The officers are expected to show no signs of weakness while performing their job duties. Correctional Officers play a very vital role in the criminal justice field. Their jobs are very dangerous when dealing with inmates that are in jail and prisons. ”The role they take in is very different from other law enforcement jobs within prions and jails.” (Seiter, 2011). The function of correctional officer is to help aid prisons by gaining power and control over regulations throughout the prisons and jails. They also are responsible for criminals who have committed a crime and been arrested, which now are awaiting trial. Correctional Officer functions are to enforce and keep order, supervise activities of inmates, aid in rehabilitation and counseling of offenders, search inmates for contraband items and report on inmates conduct. Corrections work is stressful, hazardous, and always challenging. Faced with staggering budget cuts and burgeoning prison...
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...Jails would be operated by counties or local cities for short-term confinement like occupying individuals for the military, protective custody, contempt, or courts as witnesses. They must be under supervision (e.g., a county’s sheriff’s department) to guard convicted individuals serving their time to one year or less. It might become a holding facility for potential offenders awaiting trial, suspected rulebreakers (e.g., violators of their probation, parole, or bail bond status), or prisoners in accommodation of overcrowding within the federal and state level. An additional purpose may be acting as a temporary detention centers pendant the transfer of adolescents or mentally ill people to their suitable facilities. Other functions are its endeavors to tackle substantive abuse problems in addition to management of work release...
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...trafficking in oxycodone. Then here comes the maranda warning also know as maranda rights “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.” Steve is now under arrest for selling oxycode to a under cover officer of the law. Steve is then put in the officers car and taken down town for booking. Steve arives at the police station with Officer Smith. The officer takes him into the station for the following process's. Booking is when arrested indivduls arrive at the jail facility, they go through the intake process before being housed in the inmate population. This process can take from one to six hours and is comprised of medical screening, the booking process and the classification interview. Imediately upon arrival at the jail the inmate is examined for any medical conditions that need imediate treatment. A second medical questionaire is conducted later in the...
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...hours a day. The outcome of that cannot always be positive. Prisoners are always on edge making sure that they are protecting themselves from others. There are usually a lot of violent offenders in prison and they don’t care about the well being of others. The prison environment can influence management and custody. There are some employees of the institution that get close with certain individuals incarcerated and they end up bringing drugs or weapons into the facility for the criminal. That is how a lot of contraband ends up in our prisons, from the outside. What changes to prison environments would improve institutional management? Overcrowding always comes to mind, I don’t think there is going to be a solution for that any time soon. There will always be criminals and people being sent away to jail/prison. It’s very expensive to keep building facilities to hold all the inmates. Going back to faculty having close relationships with the inmates should be more enforced. It causes a lot of problems inside the facility. Secure custody is when an individual is separated from general population. The inmates have the rights to be moved away from the population, the prison system has the legal responsibility to protect him if they have valid reasons to why he/she needs to be moved. Secure Custody can be improved simple by making sure that the inmate truly needs this protection and isn’t just saying that they need help to get out of trouble they may have caused in their cell block...
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...unique problems that they are to face. Even those who are police officers to patrol the highway or arrest those who have outstanding warrants, those officers still have days where there are no problems and then they have days where they see unique situations. As for the officials, it is every day that they see new situations. There are many different correction officials that work together in a facility. “There are many different positions that make up the complement of prison staff” (Seiter, 2008). For each of the officials that are involved with these facilities. Every correction official and police officer will always be at risk and it is a risky job to have. Correction officials have to deal with riots, medical problems with inmates, keeping other inmates and other officials safe. There are many problems that an official is faced with. There are many officials who have to check all the mail that comes into the facility for the inmates to make sure that the mail does not contain any type of drugs or contraband. It has been known for drugs and contraband to get into facilities through mail and other ways. With juveniles, drugs are a huge issue that correction officials have to deal with. Many correction officials have found that the use of weapons is a big concern. Many inmates will find ways to make some type of weapon for safety or to hurt other inmates and possibly hurt the correction officials.” Every year, correctional officers are injured in confrontations with...
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...mitigating and deterring crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts. The criminal justice system is made up of three sections: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (jails, prisons, probation and parole) (Ariestechsoft, 2013). In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of persons who have been convicted of crimes (Carson & Sabol, 2012) . These functions commonly include imprisonment, parole and probation. In this paper, the writer will evaluate past, present, and future trends of corrections. Discuss the budgetary and managerial impact that future trends will likely have not only on corrections, but also the other components of the criminal justice system. Evaluate In the past corrections used to be vastly different than it is today. Corrections were merely just a place to store individuals who have broken the laws of the land. This place had no regard to the age, sex, or the nature of the law broken. The corrections facility could be considered a cave like area dug out with a cage on top. In the captivity there were murders housed with shoplifters and rapist. There were also children housed with adults. There were no orders as to how the individuals would be treated. This simply...
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...inmates are controlled. Correctional officers have one of the hardest jobs on the planet, having to work with prison inmates on a daily basis and not knowing when something may happen that could endanger themselves or their fellow correctional officers. Keywords: daily, corrections, life, officers, policies, The life of a correctional officer is a multi-prong one. A correctional officer is a staff person in a prison or jail who accomplishes the institution’s mission by maintaining control and order within the prison (Seiter, 2011). While the job of a correctional officer is very critical within a prison and may vary vastly depending on the role unique to a certain prison or jail, it is very important that we all understand that these quiet guardians are the tip of the spear in the correctional facilities. The differences between jails and prisons have been clearly defined and the missions between the two are considerately different, there is relatively little difference in the actual roles that correctional officers play in the two types of facilities. Correctional officers are solely responsible for the direct, constant supervision of inmates and implementation of the security procedures and protocols within a prison. All correctional officers are required to be very knowledgeable in the highly technical and highly interactive world of the prison system as the daily occurrences with the prison inmates requires them to have strict adherence to policies and sharp...
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...Prison environment is most likely bleak and dreary. I wouldn’t know as I’ve never been to prison or jail, however, I would imagine from what I’ve been reading that it is not the most positive environment. A prison will have a warden, who is the person in charge of the organization of the prison and well being of everyone working or living there (Foster, 2006). There are also prison guards who run the facility in its day to day functions. The prison environment influences institutional management by helping them to decide how to handle certain circumstances within the facility. If the facility is doing well, then the institutional management can handle other things that need to be done besides helping the inmates solve negative problems or conflicts that arise daily. However, if there are a lot of conflicts and other issues arising in the prison, then the management must come up with ways to make the environment a more positive place and figure out why certain inmates are having problems. Prisons have a lot of problems because the inmates quite obviously do not want to be there. It is also difficult for inmates because they do not get to choose who they are roommates with, nor are they in control of anything. Depending on the level of security inmates cannot go to the bathroom, read, eat, or exercise without the permission or say so of the prison guards. So from this the environment and morale can be quiet low. With there being so many different types of inmates in a prison it...
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...individual corruption does (Satz, 2013, p. 997). Also, it cannot be obtained in a single incident like individual corruption can. An act that otherwise may be completely harmless but over time and when adopted as a widespread practice tends to demoralize the objectives and purposes of the institution is the central cause of institutional corruption (Satz, 2013). Instances of institutional corruption, according to Satz (2013), especially may be seen in the privatization of prisons, where the primary goal and purpose of the operator of the prison (making a profit) collides with the purpose and goal of the facility (punishment for committing crimes). An example of such was the offer of the Corrections Corporation of America to assist with the financial burdens of forty-eight states by purchasing the states’ prisons in exchange for the states guarantee to keep the facilities at 90 percent capacity over the course of the next twenty years (Satz,...
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...discuss them also. THE ENVIROMENT Not at all like home, is prison not the place to enjoy life. Inside the overcrowded, dirty, concrete walls danger lurks. Hundreds of troubled people are housed together living their lives. Prisoners always have to protect themselves from other inmates whom are violent and have no care for others. The management and custody is influenced by the environment in many ways. Most of the contraband that is found in prisons is from too close of relations between inmates and staff. There is also mare leniency given to some inmates in these situations. It is certain that drugs weapons and sexual relations can change the safety and structure of the prison environment. There are things that can be done to ensure this type of misconduct is seen less. There will always be criminals and people being sent away to jail/prison. It’s very expensive to keep building facilities to hold all the inmates. Going back to faculty having close relationships with the inmates should be more enforced. It causes a lot of problems inside the facility. SECURE CUSTODY Secure custody is when an individual is separated from general population. The inmates have the rights to be moved away from the population, the prison system has the legal responsibility to protect him if they have valid reasons to why he/she needs to be...
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