INSTITUTIONAL VS. COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS PAPER
Tierra Alexander
June 5, 2016
CJS/255
Mitch Jessip

In today’s world we never understand how the what it is as a prisoner to know the difference between institutional and community corrections. This being whether they are on probation, parole, or reentry of an institution. So with this being said I will let you know about this by comparing and contrasting the difference in the two corrections. In most of this it’s based off the objective of institutional and community. I wondered do we know how many prisoners and offenders are actually on probation. Do you understand the different sources as well as what would be the best rehabilitation out of both? In knowing this will help you to understand how the correction system work. There are several different entities that goes along with the criminal justice system. This has often been overlooked by parts of the justice system which is corrections. This being many ethical dilemmas that can present themselves, by both which is institutional and community corrections settings. Let’s look at the difference of the two corrections.

In being institutional you would see things like a prison guard being approached by an inmate whom was put on mail restriction which means the inmate cannot receive any type of mail service. This some things guards go through on a day to day bases. In institutions such as this you have inmates who are serving a long sentence so they end up in getting in trouble and while in trouble they find that one guard who they can make feel sorry for them. This prison guard is facing a dilemma of should he mail the letter and break the rules of the restriction. Or should he not mail the letter and follow the rules. The guard were to mail the letter maybe the inmate would keep other inmates in line for him. If he does this, it can make the inmate think he