Correctional Facilities For Inmates And Staff

Have you ever wondered what’s it 's like to be a cop? Or what cop’s families go through on a day to day basis? This book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement written by Kevin M. Gilmartin, Ph.D. gives us an outline on the difficulty and stress that law enforcement officer and their families face on daily basis. Dr. Gilmartin discusses the stages of hypervigilance. And the long-term effects of hypervigilance and the toll it takes on the officer and his or her family.

About ninety-three percent of all people incarcerated are released eventually. Within three years, seventy percent of those released will be rearrested. states that inmates fail to successfully reenter society because of mental health issues, substance abuse, past criminal acts, total education level, economic standing, among other things. One an inmate is out they should have been rehabilitated in every way possible. They should be ready to enter a world that has evolved with no mercy towards them. Reentry in communities are determined by the amount of opportunity offered by the community itself. For example, the obtainability of housing, drug abuse treatment programs, health services, schooling and hiring opportunities are crucial for integration. One of the

First, a substantial aid to reentry is support on the outside. Not having assistance upon reintroduction to society deprives an individual of financial resources and housing. Expecting offenders to establish themselves as productive members of society without this basic support is absurd. Deprivation of these resources is seemingly setting them up for failure; they are imperative to inmate success because they help them assimilate back into society. Transitioning back into everyday life after years of incarceration can be disconcerting. It is far too easy for offenders to drift back into comfortable old habits without a plan of action upon release. This is difficult considering the distress that one confronts during their reentry. Employment is another major barrier to many individuals post-incarceration.

Prisoner reentry is one of the most important parts of our criminal justice system. We currently have hundreds of thousands of people currently incarcerated in the United States. Upon reentry, ex-prisoners need a place to live and work to provide for themselves. Without a job, how can anyone be expected

Prison is used as a means of separating the criminally charged from the outside population. Many prisons are focused on reintroducing the prison population back into the general population. Rehabilitating criminals has become a highly-debated topic throughout the U.S. With the majority of criminals being repeat offenders, correctional institutions have made rehabilitation a top priority.

I have made a note that in my research paper to include why officers get PTSD and how it might be prevented. In this study it showed that a lack of support was a major cause. This could be from the community, to supervisors, to even the family life. If an officer feels they have no support system then this can make them depressed and feel as if they have no one to turn to. A lack of support can be a career ending for an officer. This could also make an officer do unethical

When I think of a prison the first thing that comes to my mind is a secure facility where criminals are taken to. A facility where people are rehabilitated and punish by imprisonment for doing wrong to or against society. Prisons are a facility for criminals that have committed crimes such as felonies and usually the prisoners there have to serve long sentences. There are different types of prison,based in different aspects to protect the prisoners. An example could be Juvenile prisons, which is a prison usually for minors that are not 18 years old yet.This prison offers educational programs and also it segregates the adults from the minors which prevents them from interacting with more dangerous prisoners. All prisons have security, however there are some prison that are a Minimum security facility and others that are a Maximum security facility.The Minimum security prison is for

Once an inmate is released from prison and given parole or probation it is difficult for them to live a normal life like any other ordinary person would integrate day to day in our society. The offenders will have many obstacles due to their criminal background in finding a job or even taken serious by others in general. In a way, the parolee or probationer are fearful to how society might approach them once let out of prison and even more frighten if the parolee or probationer served an indeterminate sentence (10-20 years) in prison and not know how to become a part of society becomes their worst nightmare due to the past thoughts of old habits that got them (parolee or probationer) in trouble with the system. Now put in mind

Federal prisons and correctional facilities (segregated)in the United States are highly gendered institutions and most policies direct that transgender inmates should be accommodated according to their genitalia. In 2009, the department of corrections in Washington D.C. forged rules and regulations regarding strip searches to reduce the humiliation for transgender inmates. Astudy reported that 58.5 percent transgender women faced sexual assault by other inmates.In Farmer v. Brennan the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dee Farmer’s favour under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. In this series, women inmates are subjected to sexual coercion by both guards and other

Throughout United States correctional history, it has been heavily debated as to whether or not prisons have positive effects on inmates and society. Today, many prisons attempt to have a positive impact on the lives of the inmates, while giving society the satisfaction on punishing criminals. The correctional system achieves this goal through the use of four techniques. The four techniques used by the correctional system include rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution. These four methods work individually as well as collectively to produce felons who can be productive citizens of society.

In attempting to discern likely trends in the burgeoning area of correctional facilities, it is necessary to gauge current trends and measures of policy that are designed to account for them. Some of the most salient factors that become clear when one looks at the contemporary state of correctional facilities within the United States are that there are increasingly high numbers of people in prison (approximately 700 inmates for every 100,000 people which puts the total number of inmates in America well over 2 million) (The Sentencing Project, 2003, p. 1), it is costing greater and greater amounts of money to maintain the correctional facilities system, and recidivism rates are extremely high as well. Based on this information, it is quite likely that future trends in correctional facilities will include programs to more effectively deal with the high rate of incident of recidivism, alternate sentencing and measures to deal with inmates who are incarcerated due to drug related offenses, and increases in the number of correctional facilities, some of which will be attributed to privatization.

The quality of correctional and criminal justice system interactions is the determining feature of each country’s level of economic and social development. The more controlled and civilized the correctional system is the more civilized and controlled the overall image of the country appears. In the United States, the long history of the penitentiary system has significantly contributed in the improvement of legal principles of corrections and criminal justice: the prison life in the U.S. has lost its negative features, and a range of recovery and rehabilitation programs work to make a prisoner “a better person”. Brazilian system of corrections is surrounded by an array of legal and human rights debates; in the current system of corrections

Corrections is defined as “a governmental agency tasked with the responsibility of overseeing the incarceration of persons convicted of crimes within a particular jurisdiction”. From my understanding this means that the correctional branch is tasked with administering and enforcing the punishments given to the offenders. But like most systems in the United States, the correctional branch had to be updated and improved to follow the laws and ways of the modern world.

In the U.S there are thousands of correctional facilities that house offenders of all gender, race, and cause of arrest. The first prison in the U.S was built in Philadelphia in 1790, the cause of its creation was to house those that broke the law and needed a form of punishment. At this time the U.S was still trying to find a way to establish a proper correctional system; Due to this many individuals were wrongly accused and received unfair treatment. Throughout the years the U.S correctional system developed and gradually expanded to what it currently is as of date. Although the physical aspects of a prison grew and expanded, the inside is many decades behind. Reason being that there is still currently unfair treatment to some of the offenders

Jerry, you make some good points in your discussion of what jails and prisons can do to ensure that inmates can successful reenter society and the community and reduce the rate of recidivism. Inmates should be trained to have marketable skills on their release. As Carlson & Garrett (2008) discussed vocational training can make the transition from inmate to productive worker in the community easier. In his research of federal prisoners Harer (1994) found that inmates released that had employment arranged before their releases recidivated about 53% less than those who did not have any employment arranged prior to their release. Local jails and workhouses may have more opportunities to develop reentry programs than state prisons because of