Fresno County Jail Analysis

Prisons today are pushed to their limits, both state, and federal prisons. Inmates are forced to live in unsanitary, unhealthy, unsafe, and poor conditions. Men and woman should not be made to sleep on floors, sleep in tents outside, or fight for a spot in a long line to shower. This issue needs to be addressed, and some states have proceeded to do so and have had great results.

On November 5, 2015 at approximately 1000 hours I took a jail tour of the Santa Cruz Correctional facility on Water Street, with Melinda Payne as my tour guide. There were a few things that stood out to me during the jail tour. First, I observed how clean and orderly the jail was. There were no bad odors and the walls, floors, and windows were well kept. Personally, I try to maintain a clean and organized workspace therefore the jail environment fit me well. Second, I noticed the overall size of facility. The jail is relatively small in size and was broken into different sections. Personally, I like this layout because I believe it allows for better communication to inmates and staff, better response to major incidents, and quick ability to

..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

Prior to visiting the prison, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was nervous but also excited to see how everything operated. I had never been to a jail or a prison prior to this field trip. I was expecting to see one big building surrounded by high fences and coiled barbed wire. Once inside, I was expecting to see people dressed in orange doing various activities, much like in movies and television shows, even though I knew these weren’t true.

County jails are not equipped to “manage the influx of more prisoners, and for longer periods of time, as well as provide ‘evidence-based’ rehabilitative programs,” which has serious implications for confinement conditions and for the overall success or failure of Realignment (Owen & Mobley, 2012, p. 47). Even before the Realignment Act, California jails were struggling with “crowding, court-ordered ordered caps on their populations, antiquated facilities and few programs” (Owen & Mobley, 2012, p. 48). Counties are limited in their ability to address these concerns because of county-level budget cuts.

After touring both the Pendleton maximum security prison, and the Pendleton juvenile correctional facility I can say that while they both house inmates, the way they treat their inmates is totally different compared to one another. In Pendleton maximum facility, the staff would treat their inmates like any other criminal and hold them until it was time for them to be released, while in the Pendleton juvenile facility the staff called the inmates “students” while holding them until they believe the students are ready to behave when they are released. In this paper I want to explain how both facilities handles their inmates differently, the facilities themselves and their layouts, the rehabilitative programs available at both facilities, and how the security levels and the number of inmates assigned to the facilities effect how the treatment is implemented at each facility.

There are always poor conditions in the local jails every day that are talked about, and still nothing will never get done about it. Local jails are usually crowed into small cells. Odors are often strong and sickening food served does not always taste

According to Lyttle (2015), an artist gave the inmates inside jail an online course in Norfolk City Jail with TED talk in order to inspire them to live a better life. This artist expects that inmates inside jail can acquire knowledge as well. As a kind of open online courses, TED talk is famous and popular. Mbuva (2014) states that online education is a distance education, which depends on internet technology to realize teaching and spreading knowledge. In this paper, online refers to not only open online courses, such as massive open online course (MOOCS), but also refer to online courses provided by traditional colleges for their registered students. Enter the twenty-first century, most aspects of society have been impacted profoundly by

Before we began researching this topic, I thought that the American incarceration system was working well. However, I had some previous knowledge, from news articles saying that many of our prisons were overcrowded and many have poor living conditions. Additionally, I did see the occasional new story on a prisoner bringing to the press the poor conditions they went through while in prison. So when we decided to look into this topic, I was interested in learning about

This article is about a pastor who was arrested on Tuesday in Magnolia. He is accused of sexually assaulted a young girl. The Montgomery Country Sherriff’s detectives arrested him, and they think that there could be more victims, because he let his church from different locations around Houston. The detectives, prosecutors and the MCSO SWAT team raided the Body Of Christ Ministry Church. They apprehended Ronald Mitchell who has 56 year-old. The police found in the house of the church a lot of weapons and ammunitions. The MCSO SWAT team made the arrest and it is held in the Montgomery Country Jail on a $250,000 bond.

Wabash and Huntington County Jails are both jails [WCJ], [HCJ], but are totally different. They have different capacities for inmates; they both have different types of environments for the inmates to have a little bit of free time. They also have their own problems in keeping the inmates in that facility, money is an issue for one or both jails. Keeping the inmates feed is an issue when the jail is way over the maximum capacity, and these are the three topics that I will focus on.

Create a new program that helps educate the community and families about the safety measures and protections provided to offenders while they are incarcerated in Harris County jails.

Given the recidivism statistics, we can examine the current American conditions in prison facilities that produce these results. Many Americans are aware of the living conditions, crime, and lack of treatment and security in current prison. In

For this paper I looked into many different Ohio county jails and many different state prisons and was amazed at how little if any information was given about these facility’s from everything from the organizational structure, chain of command to the classifications of inmates, to the fact that there is no mention of any problems inside these facility’s which I find comical considering I’ve done county time and have seen and lived firsthand the day to day problems that accurse at the county level and know a few who have gone to prison and have talked about the problems there. So to fulfill the requirements of this assignment I have to write about two separate facility’s so I choose one county jail and one state prison to write about.

Over the past few years, there’s been reported staff assaults both sexual and physical, inmate assaults against each other, inmate deaths from poor medical treatment, inefficient programming, and an atmosphere of constant punishment and negative reinforcement causing tension between staff and inmates. There’s lack of trust as well between prisoners and guards in the past.