Dynamic Security In The United Kingdom

Maximum and Supermax prison is designed for full attention to security and surveillance. In these institutions, the inmate’s lives are organized into a militaristic approach to control the inmate’s movements, by limiting/eliminating situations that could lead to a breakdown in discipline like escaping, harming themselves, others and/or prison staff. The facilities have concrete walls that stand 20 - 30 feet high and have been sunk deep into the ground to prevent prisoners from tunneling. The fences are electrically charged and lined with barbed wire. Unlike medium and minimum facilities which can have multiple occupants to a room, max and supermax facilities can only contain one occupant because these inmates pose a threat to other inmates.

What the researchers found during this study was that both the behaviors and mentalities of guards and prisoners changed. Guards became more aggressive and prisoners became passive. A group of five prisoners had to actually be released from the study because of physical and emotional changes they were experiencing. Those prisoners remaining actually began acting as if they were truly incarcerated. By the behaviors they exhibited they had all but forgotten that they were free to leave at any time and not forfeit the money they had already earned. Guards, on the other hand, actually stayed at the prison longer than they were scheduled and were actually disappointed when the study came to a close while prisoners were very happy and expressed their luck at getting released early. These results clearly demonstrate that it is the environment that contributes to the behaviors observed. Those who were given the role of guard expressed the power and control they had over the prisoners. The prisoners began to become hopeless and bend to the power of the guards.

In addition, safety and security are of major concern to this group. They expect prisoners to serve their time and not have the opportunity to escape their facilities. Criminals, particularly those in high-security prisons, are dangerous and unpredictable and escaping prisons and returning to society is a threat to the safety of society at

According to the prisons inspectorate, the ‘health’ of a prison should be measured according to safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement (HMCIP, 2013). Choose one of these factors, and using academic research to support your argument, discuss to what extent this represents a critical element of imprisonment in contemporary society.

The corrections are responsible for managing all persons in custody and in the community serving your sentence. Corrections staff should keep a professional attitude to each inmate and treat them with dignity and respect. They help you to become a law-abiding member of the community. They are there to help the offender to stop committing crimes. They help out the communities by

Finally, solitary confinement may also be supported by the fact that it isolates violent prisoners and ensures the safety of other inmates. Indeed, the number one priority of the prison should be to keep their inmates safe. As stated in Gary Deland’s essay, prisoners’ interactions with other inmates can be severely controlled strictly by placing one in solitary confinement. There is no more effective way to prevent violence than by taking out the perpetrator from the situation.

Prisons are fundamentally designed for the functions of law and order, and many guards seemed to act in

2. In a prison the correctional officers usually take the role of the negotiator. These officers know their prisoners and know things that can be used during the negotiation. Furthermore, how the correctional officers treated the prisoners can either help or hurt negotiators. Moreover, if the correctional officers are taken hostage their relationship with the inmates can determine how they are treated. Also, tactical entry may be a problem as most prisons are built to keep people out. Next in a prison there may be a group of hostage takers rather than just one which can make the situation become

When conducting a jailing system, you have to maintain two important things which are control and safety. Jails demonstrate safety not only for the inmates but for the deputies and citizens as well. The Jail, makes a point that jail is clearly exclusive to the rabble by noting a few basic truths regarding these institutions: big buildings, complex locking systems, and elaborate surveillance systems ensure high security because the rabble cannot be trusted and they need to protect those around them (Irwin, Ch.3). The rabble once held into

Equalizing the constitutional rights of prisoners and the functions of the jail or prison can create great strain on not only the correctional facilities’ staff but on the inmates as well. The treatment of prisoners is typically left completely to the prudence of prison administrators and other correctional officials. With that being said, this paper will discuss the differences between harmonizing those constitutional rights of prisoners and the functions of the facility. It will also explain the rights that prisoners are required to have, and how these rights are balanced within other aspects of the correctional institution.

PURPOSE: To provide a system for obtaining information including , but not limited to, protecting the public, controlling inmate behavior, provide planning and accountability.

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” -- Angela Davis. This quote is directly addressing the brutality of violence in prisons. When looking at violence, the first area of concern is how it became a problem in the first place. The second step would be to not only evaluate the situation, but propose an idea to minimally fix it at best, or try to reform it. This idea should entail a detailed and extensive overview of the proposal from both positive and negative aspects that a warden would have to encounter. Stating the positive and negatives help to ensure preventions and overall prepare a prison to make their environment safer for everyone. This is the precise goal of this proposal- to make a prison safer.

The main purpose of Corrections is to incapacitate, and rehabilitate an inmate with the hope they will become law abiding citizens once released back into society. However, while in the correctional institution serving their time, many inmates dealing with pressure from being away from their families or pressures from their peers if they are in a gang, to assault staff members that work at these institutions. These assaults have made it very dangerous for Correctional Officers to perform his or her job duties. This reform will look to take advance measures to protect our correctional staff employees as they try to protect society from these violent/non-violent criminals. This paper will help one to better understand the

2. Protect inmates from one another by separating likely predators from less serious inmates. 3. Control inmates’ behavior, which includes their ability to trade in contraband, engage in prison gang activities, or harm themselves (as with suicidal inmates. 4.

Prisons have many policies set in place to help aid inmates’ with adjusting to prison life. No matter what policies are set in place to help aid inmates they will always have a hard time especially for first timers. According to Frank Schmalleger and John Ortiz Smykla (2009) new inmates face major problems because of the loss of liberty, lack of material possessions, the depravation of materials and services, the lack of heterosexual relationships, and feeling unsecured. I think that inmates can be helped with the adjustment process by initiating and enforcing a program to deal with such issues. I think I would eliminate policies that are designed to make prison life unpleasant and concentrate more on policies that help inmates progress in their educational and rehabilitation programs. One policy that is very important to inmates is to feel safe in their prison environment. As a result there have been many debates on the rights of the inmates. I think the most important policy I would enforce is educational programs that will