My thoughts on corrections are it’s a place that houses convicted criminals. As an Intern, I see it as a place that places criminals into facilities depending on their length of sentence or the degree of their charges. Inmates who work wear striped uniforms while working outside the facilities. Inside the facility, adults wear green uniforms and adolescents wear beige. The environment is not bright, but it’s as clean as the inmates keep it. There are many programs implemented within corrections to assist rehabilitating inmates. They offer job training, education and counseling. There are more programs about to begin. The only inmates are not able to utilize these opportunities are parole violators. Even with the opportunities presented a lot of inmates may still refuse to take advantage of it because it’s optional.
When criminals are put into corrections away from society, it doesn’t reduce crime. It may have reduced the crime of that person, but crime still exists. I think a reduction in crime is something that will take years to accomplish and in order to see a significant change the government should target the youth. The youth in communities needs numerous amount of resources to keep them deterred to the …show more content…
As the cases pour into the funnel and move down the narrow path with a number of crimes committed at different magnitudes less offenders are arrested, charged and imprisoned. The funnel displays that less than 5 percent of criminals are convicted and imprisoned for violent crimes “Long-term studies show that many suspects who are arrested have prior criminal histories” (Bureau Of Justice Statistics, 1997) and those with a greater number of prior arrests were more likely to be arrested again. Which suggest while previously incarcerated, they weren’t reformed to enter back into