Allen County Jail Structure

The Pocatello women prison is overcrowded, something is wrong with our women. Fair enough, more women are going to jail now, years ago it was unlikely if a woman went to jail. Women were looked on as a mother figure, or caregiver. However, times have changed, and we now have more women committing crimes than men or just as much men. Nevertheless, State prisons are a financial institution and a business, it takes a lots of money to run a functional Prison. Pocattelo need three prisons built in the next five years, costing one hundred and sixty milions dollars. This paper will focus on the state of Idaho and the city of Pocatello prison sitting story problems. I will talk about , , financial issues faced in building a new prison, recidivism rate of women inmates ,education and conclusion.

Andersonville was a Confederate prison built in 1864 at Andersonville, Georgia. It was designed to hold Union prisoners of war during the Civil War. It was official named was Camp Sumter, however it’s better known as Andersonville. It was built from the ground up by local slave labor. At the time it was 10 ½ acres long and designed to hold about 10,000 men. The camp was enclosed out of 15 to 17 inch hewed pine logs. Along the walls were guard towers (referred to as pigeon roosts by the inmates) placed every 90 feet around the stockade walls.

Andersonville Prison epitomized the ultimate crime against humanity. The atrocities that transpired in this confederate prison sparked reaction and outrage at the conclusion of the Civil War.

The Middle River Regional Jail is a highly structured organization. The jail consists of many units; we toured Intake, Segregation, Work Release, Education, Medical, and the Female Minimum Security unit. Each unit is heavily monitored highly trained officers located in a main control room in order to ensure the safety of both the officers and inmates. Each unit is locked by heavy doors that require authorization to pass through.

..no fences, no bars on the windows, no detention sash. Guards do not wear uniforms..the buildings look like a motel. Inmates may use telephones to call anyone anytime, they have keys to their own individual rooms, they have their own money, and they wear their own clothes. There are no restrictions on hours of watching television or visiting in the day rooms or

Before the 1820s, most prisons resembled classrooms where inmates lived in large rooms together like a dormitory. The newer prisons of the era, like New York’s Auburn Prison, shepherded men into individual cells at night and silent labor during the day, a model that would prove enduring. Women at Auburn, however, lived in a small attic room above

Learning about the county jail was an interesting experience. Amongst all the sight seeking, I realized there was several departments within the jail itself. The different departments are called the booking department, incident reports, and finger printing department.

Hunter- Back in 1841 I went to teach Sunday school in 1841 at a jail. I was shocked that many prisoners were locked in Chains and thrown in it into small cages. Also children with minor thefts were thrown into jail with the Adult Criminals. So I decided I would go talk to the state legislature of Massachusetts. I told him about how bad life in jail was and how unfair was it was to. now children and adults are no longer put together

This report form 1929, focused on the issue of overcrowding in the federal prison system and how federal judges in Minnesota indicated a need of more federal prison farms in the northern part of the state. Barstow reasoned that a prison farm could bring income and jobs to the town to make up for the economic fall of the quarry and railroad. The town had a piece of land that had not been cleared across the Kettle Rover to the east of the Sandstone that Barstow thought would be perfect. Barstow recruited the help of Senator Adolph Larson, Dr. Homer p. Dredge, and businessman John F. Hawley. These four men, later known as “the prison farm four, called a town meeting and formed a committee with a goal of obtaining a federal farm for Sandstone. The U.S. department of Justice had already announced intent to build a new prison farm in Minnesota, but Sandstone was not the only town bidding for a new institution. Sandstone, however, had the unique advantage of being positioned half way in the middle of the Twin Cities and Duluth, these cities delivered most of the Minnesota’s prison population. That June, the superintendent of prisons visited the prosed site and recommended Sandstone as the location for the new prison far. On November 10, 1931, Sandstone received the news that their bid of $5 per acre, for 2, 885 acres. (Troolin, Pine County History: The Federal Correctional Insitution at Sandstone: A History

prisons. One you are arrested, jail is usually the first place that law enforcement officers

The Walnut Street Jail was first built as a city jail in 1773 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The jail was named after the streets it was located in which were sixth and Walnut streets. The Jail then expanded in 1790 in which a penitentiary-house was added. Walnut Street Jail is considered the United States first penitentiary house because no other jail was single-celled. During that time, jails that existed did not believe in the idea that inmate can change. The jail was built in Pennsylvania due to overcrowding in another jail called High Street Jail. Even though Walnut Street Jail opened as a local jail, they also had a plan for their inmates. This plan was to look at criminals positively and hope for them to change. Walnut

On 7/31/15 at approximately 1947 hours I was assigned to Tower 14 at the Lower Buckeye jail located at the address listed above. Officer Mora B3172 who was assigned as the Tower 13 control officer called one core to notify the floor officers that multiple inmates were arguing and could escalate into a fight.

The Auburn State Prison was built in 1816, occupied in 1821 and soon after became the model for succeeding American prisons. Quaker thinking, in that "repentance for one's wrongs was best attained through private contemplation, which was facilitated by the penitentiary concept", influenced the Auburn prison. (Carney,

New York opened its first state prison in 1788. It opened on November 28th. It

Wallace Stegner once said, “Nothing in our history has bound us to a plot of ground [since] feudalism once bound Europeans” (Stegner 301). The only exception is being imprisoned. For those who brake society’s set laws, “Prisons and their many variants are built environments whose intended purpose is punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation and incapacitation” (Awofeso). Prisons began to be more widely used because the early Catholic Church disapproved of physical punishments. In 1298, Pope Boniface VIII authorized that incarceration and lack of liberty will take the place of the “eye for an eye” way of settling disputes previously employed (Awofeso). Today,