Conjugal Visits For Inmates Motivation For Prisoners

For over centuries, the only form of punishment and discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way of life than what us “normal” humans are accustomed to living in our society. Once that inmate takes their first step inside their new society, their whole mindset on how to live and communicate changes. The inmate’s psychological beliefs about what is right and wrong are in questioned as well as everything else they learned in the outside world. In a way, prison is a never ending mind game you are playing against yourself with no chance of wining. Other than the mental aspect of prison, family plays a very important role in an inmate’s sentence. Family can be the “make it or break it” deal for a lot of inmates. It is often said that “when a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole family serves the sentence.” Well, for many inmates that is the exact case. While that prisoner serves their time behind bars, their family is on the outside waiting in anticipation for their loved ones to be released. In a way, the families

More than two million people in the united states are in jail. (Does the U.S.) The united states holds about 25 percent of the worlds prisoners. That has caused overcrowding and money issues within the united states. From 1920 to 2012 the prison population increased from 170,000 to 1.5 million prisoners. That causes prisoner reform that supporters and critics are disagreeing about. (Tough on crime) The topic of prisoner reform has been debated for years now; there will always be supporters and critics who continues to debate this topic.

We may question the reason why policies exists. Policies are meant to guide a person or know what to expect from a situation and how to handle the situation. Policies help protect the rights of individuals and can as well have certain limitations. (Parnell 2013) There are policies that only apply to certain individuals and I will cover one policy that does just that. Conjugal Visits also known as Family Extended Visits is a policy set out to help families keep the bond they once had before the prison world. This policy applies to Parents of the prisoner, spouse or domestic partner, children and the convicts siblings just to name a few. I decided to write about this policy because there are many human beings that oppose this policy due to the

I chose an article from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. The title of the article is Predicting recidivism for released state prison offenders. Since I started my career in law enforcement, it seems like our detention facility has always been a revolving door. Our detention center routinely interacts and deals with the same offenders. Recidivism is an issue that affects our entire nation. This article was written by Gerald Stahler in February 2016.

Many inmates are incarcerated in prison for years and sometimes decades, then released back into society with little education or training. Studies have found that 19 percent of inmates are entirely illiterate, and 75 percent are functionally illiterate and read at a 4th-grade level. Therefore, without education, vocational training, or the ability to secure employment, many formerly incarcerated people maladapt to society and return to crime and prison. Thus, a vicious cycle of re-incarceration called inmate recidivism is created.

The author explains how inmates are still allowed access to contraband such as drugs and alcohol as if the inmates were still out “on the block”. This allows for the use of illegal substances without fear of any other repercussion than the chance of a couple days in segregation. The inmates can now freely enjoy these drugs without fear of being rolled up by local law enforcement. They are also around peers that share the same life and experiences so; this can help to create a positive “environment” making it even less desirable to want to leave. In some prisons the inmates who are on good behavior terms are given rewards such as a T.V time, extra yard time and, extra meals. These prisons rarely offer the kind of discipline a criminal needs to reform. Now there are the positives like the ones mentioned above, however there is the downside, the fact that it is still

Everyone in the world is affected by criminal behavior in some way, shape, or form. Crime determines where we decide to reside, what school we opt to send our children to, and also when or where we go out. Over 600,000 prisoners return to the community each year. Fair amounts of offenders receive some sort of rehabilitation programming while they are incarcerated, albeit many return not able to reintegrate back into their surrounding communities. One way to establish successful offender re-integration is through successful reentry programs.

Over 700,000 inmates are released from state and federal prisons and put back on the streets. Over half of them end up back in the system (Cook, Kang, Braga, Ludwig, O’Brien (2015)). They end up back into the system because they can’t fend for themselves, don’t have family left or go back into the drugs and alcohol or what they were doing before. Re-entering into society can be hard, specifically talking about offenders who have been incarcerated for years. Those that are up for release and those who have been released have trouble finding a job or even getting a job. Being in a jail or prison cell is hard enough, let alone trying to re-enter society after many years behind bars. For some inmates, it is easy because they have family still in the area or those willing to come from far away to take them back home. Inmates re-entering into society have a lot of work to do starting with themselves. Male and female inmates have different recidivism rates and females have more access to re-entry programs than males do.

Supervised over 975 inmates in a therapeutic community. Conduct inmate interviews, provide constant supervision and ensure the timely and orderly participation of group therapeutic sessions.. Assist treatment staff and counselors with transfers, evaluation, and processing of inmates. As the yard supervisor, prepare the inmates for medical and transfer transportation activities. Responsible for the health and well being of each and every inmate. Responsible for the entire inventory for all weapons assigned to the institutions armory. As the primary Field Training Officer for the shift assigned, my duties included, but was not limited to; managing, supervising, and certifying uncertified Corrections

When an inmate gets to point in human development where death may be near and they can no longer function as smoothly day to day without assistance, keeping them in prison becomes more of a burden than a benefit for everyone. The prison staff will no longer have to use their limited time and resources to assist these individuals or lose patience waiting for them to comply with their commands. Instead, these fragile individuals will have the opportunity to receive treatment from health professionals in the community as well as receive assistance from supportive family or friends if available. For those nearing death, they can spend that time with loved ones. This takes some of the financial burden off the state to provide accommodations like

Kristin Briggs Professor Tashima Sociology 101 3 April 2015   Annotated Bibliography   1.) Introduction For my Annotated Bibliography I have chosen the subject of resocialization in prisons. Prisons are known to be total institutions, as prisoners are essentially cut off from society, and told what to do and when to do it. Upon entering a total institution such as a prison, you become surrounded by a totally different environment than you are used to.

As a general public we pay monetary expenses as well as the very way of jail, regardless of how compassionate society endeavors to make it, delivers a situation that is unavoidably crushing to its occupants. Numerous Americans have faith in our present jail framework, furthermore trust that it is a compelling type of discipline for the criminal. Some would say that culprits could live good, enlightened lives in jail then graduate to better than average, acculturated lives in the free world. My inquiry to these individuals is; in what manner can hoodlums live edified lives in a situation that just offers turmoil and mellow types of political agitation? It is understood what goes ahead in secret in jail; appalling outrages that make the head

The correctional system is a home to thousands of schizophrenics, paranoid, and psychotic individuals (Navasky & O'Connor, 2010). Police are forced to take many people with schizophrenia, paranoid, and psychotic individuals off the streets because the nation's psychiatric hospitals are closing (Navasky & O'Connor, 2010). Instead of being placed in a state mental facility, mentally ill patients are placed in prisons. The environmental stress of the nation’s psychiatric hospitals being shut down caused many individuals to fend for themselves. They suffered; they did not have a home to go to or someone to care for them. In the end, their mental health deteriorated, in which they were forced into the correctional system. In the video, they

Prison inmates, are some of the most "maladjusted" people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They

“It strikes me that for most of them prison has become a life of waiting: waiting in line to eat, for a phone call, the mail, or a visit. Or just waiting for tomorrow--for parole and freedom. For the other ones, with no hope of release, I suppose that they wait for the deliverance of death” (158). Since taking away the inmate's personal belongings and restricting them on visits, inmates go into a depression state of mind. Prisoners no longer have anything to look forward to throughout the day, causing negative psychological effects on