The equipment is dilapidated as well as few compared to the constantly increasing number of inmates who are convicted daily by the justice system. The description paints a negative picture to the reader who has never had the opportunity to visit the facility. The facility is also understaffed since the number of trained personnel turnover is high compared to the other facility across the country. The experienced staff members are constantly transferred to other places, and this creates a crisis within the institution. When new guards are assigned to the correctional facility, they are inducted to the workplace by their colleagues who themselves have only spent only a few days in the institution, and this leaves many pitfalls in enforcing the policies of the facility.…
We had an opportunity to tour the facility where our fellow classmates are serving their sentence. Joseph Harp Correctional Center is a medium security facility that houses a total of about 1,400 offenders. It is the largest medium security facility in the state. This facility is full of diverse groups of individuals. It houses a variety of offenders like the mentally ill and youthful offenders.…
This justice article defines, examines, and evaluates super-maximum correctional facilities, their individual state policies, and certain characteristics incarcerated inmates exhibit. This article provides insight into how various states’ super-maximum facilities operate, from utilizing specific criteria to define and admit a super-maximum inmate, to how each individual facility deals with these problem inmates. To better understand the use of admission criteria to define an inmate, one must first understand the definition of a super-max facility. There are various definitions of a super-max facility, which leads to constant confusion in regards to the standard for which states should define a super-max facility. While all of these definitions are similar, the most widely used definition is a separate, highly secure housing unit designated for the most violent and dangerous criminals serving long-term sentences.…
To understand the mission of the Ivy Tech Department of Public Safety, one must know the differences between Ivy Tech’s security officers, and local law enforcement. While law enforcement has the legal power to enforce the law around the campus, as a security officer, while also trying to enforce the law as well, they lack the legal power that law enforcement poses. For the most part, a security guards main mission is to discourage criminal activity within then legal means, and observe and report activities around the campus. When something happens whether it be a possible criminal act, suspicious activity, medical emergency, or just a maintenance issue they notice around the college, they then report the situation to the Command Center.…
According to Sykes (2007), prison is the tool that the state or the criminal justice system uses to achieve the desires of society toward a convicted criminal (Sykes, 2007). Prisons are assigned different tasks. These tasks include self-maintenance, custody, internal order, punishment and the task of reform. The task of internal order was the most difficult for the New Jersey State Prison to accomplish in the 1950s. According to Sykes (2007), maintaining internal order in the New Jersey State Prison posed a great challenge to the guards.…
2. To control a prisoner’s behavior, you must have a clearly written, well communicated, and implemented policies and procedures. There are four conditions that are necessary to effectively work towards the overall prison goal. First, policies must be consistent with professional standards along with being written and approved by the prison administration. Next, If the policies and procedures are expected to work they are to be clearly communicated to workers and staff.…
In the correctional system in the United States, inmates are assigned to prisons based on a classifications systems that examines the inmate’s likelihood of attempting to escape, assaults on other inmates or correctional staff, and the likelihood of committing other infractions, such as possessing contraband. Typically, most inmates are placed in general population with minimal security measures. However, there is a population of inmates that are very dangerous that must be assigned to a special control unit informally as a maximum security, the hole, and the administrative segregation known as the “supermax.” Historically, the supermax prisons were created in response to prison systems that were viewed as unmanageable due to the amount of…
These ensure the safety of Adults and children alike. They state that all employees have the responsibility to maintain health and safety by, †̃taking reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of any person who might be affected by their acts or omissions at…
Chapter 3 of the book The Art of the Con: Avoiding Offender Manipulation does a great job of describing the ways in which inmates spend their time during their prison sentences. Inmates use this time much differently. They adapt, cope, and meet their needs much differently as well. They are so accustomed to their lifestyles out of prison so they must do these things to stay sane. Inmates must quickly decide how they are going to spend their time in prison.…
1. The majority of the population that occupies the jail facilities are poor, uneducated, and male adults. However, during the past few years we have seen that the female’s population has increased in the jail facilities. Also, the number of minority inmates and young adults getting sentenced to jail or prison has increased. In result, of all these high number of inmates getting booked in jail; has made our jails and prisons overcrowded.…
both penitentiaries and correctional facilities face progressing issues connected with the administration of prisoners with psychological well-being issues and Disabilities. A big issue with regards to the legality of corrections is that most jails are not generally furnished with the assets to manage wrongdoers' with mental issues or meet the needs of those with certain disabilities. The utilization of power is dependably an issue that revisions authorities are worried…
Working in the jail environment can be difficult because of how many inmates go through the jail because some many be there temporarily while they wait to be transferred to prison (Pollock, 2017). Since these inmates do not stay for long and the large number of inmates passing through, it’s difficult for officers to learn about them (Pollock, 2017). Jails pose a higher potential for smuggling and the inmates are under a large amount of stress when they enter the facility (Pollock, 2017). According to Pollock, “Jail officers deal with individuals who are experiencing despair and anxiety over the legal issues and must be constantly alert to the possibility of suicide” (Pollock, 2017, p. 383). It can also be hard for jail officers to handle jail…
Confidential Informants are not limited to crimes on the street. They can also be used in jails and prisons. “By definition, a jailhouse informant is an inmate, usually awaiting trial or sentencing, who claims to have been the recipient of an admission made by another prisoner awaiting trial, and who agrees to testify against that prisoner in a court of law, usually in exchange for some benefit.” (Genua) Which is quite different to that of a prison informant.…
Therefore, the jail inmates are faced many serious problems. There are a significant amount prisoner’s abuse and violence inside the prisons. When you have the mix of people that come from unstable families, have any substance abuse or psychological problems history with violence and mistreatment from another inmate; this will only make the matters worse. Mental health providers working in prison have to have an unbiased worldview on many types of inmates. This is not an easy feat for many people.…
Order maintenance in neighborhoods that have foot patrols have been known to make residents feel safer than those that don’t have them. The Broken Windows article stated that foot patrol officers presence didn’t reduce crime in the areas they patrolled, but made the residents feel safer and they looked up to the officers more than those that lived in areas without foot patrol officers. The majority of police officers hired are assigned to the patrol section because it is responsible for maintaining order. Patrol officers functions are to respond to service calls and patrol areas of assignment. All patrol officers are the first to implement order maintenance when they respond to a service call.…