...and personal demeanor to better understand the mood of the facility. As you are aware race plays a very important role in prison, as does respect, although the facilities population will intermingle with each other a good indicator of tension or a fight might occur is separation. Separation among the inmates by race strongly suggests one race is going to attack another race. To prevent an uprising, such as a riot or violent attacks from happening, the staff at the facility will closely monitor the population’s behavior, and if necessary secure the entire population to their cells. When an individual is initially booked in to the facility he will be asked if he has any medical conditions and other personal questions which is followed by a classification interview. During the classification interview, staff members assigned to the classification unit at the facility will ask the inmate questions in relation to his criminal history. Examples of these questions are: what is the date of your last arrest, how much county jail and state time have you done, are you a member of a street or prison gang, and what classification were you the last time you were in custody. The initial interview along with classification officer’s experience helps determine...
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...Release Does it help in recidivism? The reason I choose to write on this topic is to explain the work release program in prison for recidivism. In addition, while working in corrections I worked at a work release center. While these issues among the general public is somewhat complex, the program itself is fairly straightforward. Prison work release allows an inmate in custody with the Department of Corrections to live at a prison work release center and to go out in the community independently and find employment. The Department of Corrections does not find jobs for the inmates. The inmate must search for jobs and interview like anyone else looking for a job. Inmates walk, ride a bicycle, or use public transportation to look for a job. Once they obtain a job they use the same methods to get to their job. The Department of Corrections also does not pay for the use of public transportation. In order to find employment some centers require inmates to buy a bus pass that is valid for at least one month. However, since most inmates do not have any money to buy a bus pass they rely on family or anybody they can convince to send them money. The general public is somewhat leery about allowing inmates to be free to work with the general public. Sometimes when a person of the general public learns that an inmate is working at a restaurant they patronize they won’t return to the establishment. Some people might wonder what the purpose of it is. Will it prevent the offender from committing...
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...and give your percentages and statistics of how many become repeat offenders due to the fact of the amenities inside most prisons. Gathering information from different prisons and their living conditions have brought a great deal of questions to why are they offered so many for free. Given information on resources shortages in different welfare-related areas, such as education, employment, housing, social relations and health, affect the risk for re offending. Data on their living conditions were collected by personal interviews, articles and statistics from Department of Criminal Justice. Although, the data was inconclusive in many of these areas, many implications for instruction are presented. Much of the data linked to their history of becoming repeat offenders. Findings of data that reflected their efforts to stay out of prison was affected by their of living conditions and some of the luxury amenities are primarily felt by those who at the time of interview had not previously served time in prison are making crime a career. Also, researching and comparing when jail standards were not as important as they are now. Reflecting that the conditions that have improved for them did quit enlighten the nation’s legal system. Proving that the overcrowding was due to repeat offenders who choose come back believing life was better inside rather than the real world. Overall, more finding the difference from the dungeon era to where they now have limited internet access. Which in this...
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...Community Corrections or Incarceration Are community corrections a better solution than incarceration? Michelle Brooks ITT Technical Institute Community Corrections or Incarceration Abstract In this research paper will read about different subjects and topics that pertain to incarceration and community corrections. The incarceration rate is going up in the United States while at the same time community corrections is slowly fading away because of limited support from the local communities and government officials within each state. In this research I hope to find out those community corrections has more to offer than incarceration. In conclusion incarceration is not the right way but community corrections will be. Community Corrections or Incarceration Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Background on Community Corrections Background on Incarceration Effectives of Community Corrections Effectives of Incarceration Programs dealing with Community Corrections Programs while Incarcerated Theory Interview with Mr. Sharron Wilson Result Reference Page Community Corrections or Incarceration Introduction Community Corrections is a better solution than incarceration because it offers many different alternative programs for several different types of offenders. Incarceration also offers similar programs...
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...Integrity and Corrections Tammy Sullivan Instructor Singh CRJ 100 March 7, 2011 Integrity and Corrections Integrity means an act or notion to be honest and truthful in your actions and beliefs. In the Department of Corrections the oath that an officer takes holds this as a guide to uphold some polices of corrections. The respect that an officer gets is earned both on and off the job. We as correctional officers cannot engage in bribery, corruption, or allow another officer to do such. A correctional officer cannot accept gifts, favors, or gratuities from inmates or their families. They cannot accept or give to any inmate. Each morning before beginning tour of duty, an officer is reminded of how much integrity means in his or her lines of duty. They are reminded that they must refrain from personal dealings, sexual harassment and DUI. All of these acts if committed hurts your integrity and brings a frown upon the department. Anytime there is a corrupt officer from corrections on the news it not only hurts their institution but the department as a whole. Anytime an officer is in a situation where they feel they are lying, misleading or not within policy they should refrain from doing it. Correctional officers must present themselves both publicly and privately as trustworthy citizens and officers. Doing the right thing al all times will never go wrong. Inmates try to manipulate staff on a daily basis. They work hard to try to become a threat to an officer...
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...Health Care Interview David Walker HCS/310 Jennifer Hitt September, 18, 2013 Everyone’s job/career is important to him/her. Many people perform their daily tasks with gusto while others see their jobs as the way to make a living and pay the bills; but one will never know what the various employees have to endure on a normal work day. Status, the area of specialization, where one works and the population with which one works can cause pleasure or distress. Ever since I was a young child I always wondered what it was like working in a prison; I did not get the chance to do so, but the opportunity presented itself for me to interview a full-time prison employee who worked as an Emergency Medical Technician. I was somewhat mesmerized by some of the information I gleaned from the interview. On the 12th September, I had the privilege of visiting a state prison facility and talking to an EMT Professional about his job. Peter as this employee will be called said he has been working with that facility for eight years. I enquired why he was employed at that place and he just shook his head and laughed so loudly my ears seemed to ache. Peter claimed that he liked his job immensely, but there were times when he was overwhelmed. He worked on an ambulance prior to working at this facility but it was not challenging. He declared that working here one never knows what to expect as some of the inmates were “off the hook”. Peter declared that he was not afraid...
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...Criminal Justice Trends CJA/484 April 2, 2014 Criminal Justice Trends This paper will be evaluating the past, present, and future trends of the corrections component. It will also be discussing the budgetary and managerial impact that it has on future trends including law enforcement and the courts system. The criminal justice system will always be a significant part of social order. The world’s leader in incarceration is the United States. Prisons and jails operate around two philosophies of punishment vs. rehabilitation. The past tend was solitary confinement with no concern for inmate rehabilitation or any concern for the well-being of the inmates. Most of the increase has come from the changes in sentencing laws and policies, but not in the crime rates. These trends have stemmed in prison overcrowding and financial burdens on states to oblige a fast increasing penal system. The war on drugs sentencing policies resulted in an intense increase in incarceration for drug offenses. There was also the “Three Strikes and you Out” laws. Severe sentencing laws such as mandatory minimums are responsible for offenders to stay in prisons for a longer periods of time, also high recidivism rates. Woman in Federal and State prisons that have been incarcerated for drug offenses has increased. The women’s have histories of significant histories of physical, sexual abuse, HIV, and substance abuse. Even though violent crime has been coming down, the prisoners that are serving...
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...the most effective is prison rehabilitation or rehabilitation after incarceration programs. Such programs manly work because they help those who have cause one time offenders , and those who will continue to acts of recidivism gain skills and resources that can be applied after time spent in jail. According to the Department of Corrections on an article written in The New York Times “Half of all inmates serving city sentences of a year or less are back in jail within a year“. It is my opinion that more needs to be done in order to help these people get there live’s back on track. Kathleen Coughlin, the Correction Department deputy commissioner state in an interview with the New York Times: Over the past three years, the Correction Department has offered adults-- who make up the bulk of the 13,500 daily inmate population at Rikers --an alternative to being dropped off at Queensborough Plaza, in addition to the option of being picked up by friends or family. Upon release from Rikers, adults can instead get a ride directly to job sited or aftercare programs sponsored by nonprofits. Now some nonprofits that serve the small population of young inmates at Rikers are also offering this option. Experts in the field say aftercare programs are crucial to prevent recidivism. The question that must be asked is if these programs work so well and experts state that there crucial to prevent recidivism why aren’t there...
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...discussed in this paper is anxiety disorder, more specifically obsessive-compulsive disorder. This paper will discuss the relationship between human development and socialization, along with how this relationship affects obsessive-compulsive disorder. Throughout history Elderly Offenders Behind Bars While Reducing the Cost Over time offenders that have been sent to correctional institutions in the United States are sometimes forced to live out the rest of their lives behind bars, in the end causing overcrowding in facilities, increase numbers of aging prisoners and tax payers millions of dollars (Aday, 1994). In 2008 alone, the cost for correctional systems for federal, state, and local systems was $75 billion, much of it spent on older inmates (Warner, Schmitt, & Gupta, 2010). This is money that could have been spent on more beneficial projects like...
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...structured re-entry program into the mainstream job market. In a thriving or booming economy, improvement in the legal job market, opportunities should help reduce criminal activity. After evaluating several treatment programs to address the non-random selection of inmates who would qualify for “Work Release”, data has shown that inmates who participate in the program have better post-prison employment outcomes. While unconditional estimates suggest a large positive job market effect for three years following release, the various corrections for selection into the work release program leaves some doubt about the duration of a work release treatment. It should also be noted that a thriving job market does not necessarily translate into reduced recidivism. The reduction of recidivism is dependent on the type of crimes offenders committed. Better labor market opportunities reduce recidivism for those who are convicted of white-collar crimes, but have no impact on offenders who committed non white-collar crimes. In prison systems, work release programs allows selected inmates who meet the qualifications of work release such as minimum security classification, nearing the end of a served sentence, or an inmate who is trusted and can be sufficiently monitored to leave a confinement facility to go his or her place of employment; and then return to confinement when their respective work shift is over. The “Work Release” concept was first introduced in the...
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...The Arizona department of corrections Morey unit matter showed the true nature, of how dangerous the job of corrections is also this occurrence showed. That the smallest security glitch can be the greatest weapon of inmates in could cost staff in many ways than one. The doc policy and protocols they used were not as helpful, and not as useful; they could have been in the situation they faced. That they lack the knowledge they needed to stop the situation from escalating the way that it did. In this paper, the reader will learn about the recommendation, which the staff should have used. That would have benefited everyone within the Morey unit hostage situation like Prisoner also Yard Security, Kitchen safety measures also actions, Guard Tower defenses, measures, Defensive strategy, practices, Communications, personal, also Division reaction, Inter-Agency strategic Intel collecting and Negotiation and conclusion. These methods as such would give knowledge of how the situation would not have gone as far as it did and how quickly it would have resolved or prevented the matter from even happening. The Morey unit case was an eye opening experience. Because of that after the situation had taken place, there were so many errors, which occurred, causing the two inmates to have the upper hand on the correction guards in the Morey unit. Because of that opened the floodgates of errors with the policies and staff in which discovered that prisoners only obtain searching, when they left their...
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... untrustworthiness, and fear of liability for negligent hiring, among other things. Employers use of criminal history background checks over the past decades and they are less willing to hire ex-offenders that any other advantaged group. Their willingness to hire ex-prisoners varies according to the industry and position, the type and severity of offense committed by applicant and work experience since release. Employers are not always consistent in what they say versus what they do when it comes to hiring former offenders and prisoners Jail is a synonym for prison, especially when the facility is of a similar size as a prison. As with prisons, some jails have different wings for certain types of offenders, and have wok programs for inmates who demonstrate good behavior. Prison policy was driven for much of that 20th century by a hope that the staff in the environment would rehabilitate prisoners and fit them for a more productive life on release. It the 1970’s a series of studies showed that this aim was not being achieved,...
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...Social Justice & Ethics Maria Karabekou June 18, 2012 While the Parole System keeps an eye on the convicted, flaws in the parole system end up costing society more in the long run. To reduce the cost we need to make the parolees responsible for the number of visits, making it harder to get on parole will make the parolees take the process more serious. Parole system was started in 1817, it was referred to as the “good time” law, and it was set up to let inmates out early based in their good behavior (Parole System, n.d.). In 1876, they started making the sentences with a minimum and maximum time frame. At this time the prison employees were set up with a inmate to follow through with their parole. In 1930, the Division of Parole was established (Parole System, n.d.). They took over the responsibilities of the department of corrections to make sure that all of the parole responsibilities were met effectively. Forty years later the Division of parole was merged with the Department of Corrections and formed the Department of Correctional Services (Parole System, n.d.). The parole system was designed to help manage the population of our prisons. When someone is given a prison sentence they are give a time frame. For example, one may be sentenced “15 to 25 years”. This means that after their 15 years they are eligible for parole. The decision for parole is based on what the parole board determines. Being eligible for parole is determined on numerous factors...
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...Justice (University) and a masters of science in forensics from the same school. Since his time working as police officer, he also did numerous of volunteer work and some classroom instructions. In 2003, Brian later switched his mindset and became a correctional officer. As much as he loved being a patrolman and working as a police officer, Brian said he couldn't hide his passion to help inmates. Growing up he was also told to be a policeman because his mother wanted him to follow in his father’s footsteps. He didn’t choose the job because he wanted to please his mom; he did it because it’s what’s inside him to do. He's been working as a correctional officer for approximately eight years and says that he loves his job and he never gets stressed a day in his life. His passion didn’t come easy, but it came with hard work. He had to go through series of classes and training. There were days when he felt defeated but he kept going. He now uses what he was thought as well as his knowledge to help others make a better change for their lives. I was surprised at the smiles he had during the interview. I have never seen someone so profoundly happy about his or her career. It's like the moon and the tides, take away one of the components, and the whole thing that was complete would feel inadequate. That was so refreshing to see. One thing that interest me about Brian's work was a few things; the dangers of his job. Brian stated that sometimes when he is tired, he still has to be on his...
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...-Corrections is a booming business prisons + crime = profitable industry we have an Increasing number of people under correctional supervision 6 million people under the correctional system by the end of the century - Tough on Crime Political Stance popular public policy 20 million victimizations in 2009 repeat violent felons off of the streets treat minors as adults create mandatory sentencing laws reduce time-off-for-good-behavior - Shift in Public Opinion 4.3 million violent crimes 33 million personal theft crimes - 7.2 million 3% (1 in 33) of adults in the U.S. are under some sort of correctional supervision -Probation (community sentence) and parole are NOT the same thing -1.3% average annual increase from 2000 to 2009 But declined 1.3% in 2010 to 2009 “has the correctional population supervision increased or decreased from 2000 to 2009?” Answer: INCREASED - the majority of people in the corrections system are on PROBATION - Percentage breakdowns for types of offences: 9% Public Disorder (35% federal) DUI, indecent exposure, drunken disorderly, prostitution, etc. 18% Drug Offence (51% federal) 19% Property Offense (less than 10% federal) 53% Violent Offenses (less than 10% federal) - Regions highest to lowest South West Midwest Fed? North East - Top 5 States Federal Texas California Florida New York Notes From Ch. 1 in Textbook- - Penology the study of the use of punishment for criminal acts - Penitentiary typically used...
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