Inmates In Jails

Law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. This confinement, whether before or after a criminal conviction, is called incarceration.

Corrections are an important part of the criminal justice system and they work in concert with law enforcement and the courts. Citizens in the United States expect criminals to be monitored, with some in secured facilities, so they will not fear of becoming continual victim of crime. To illustrate this expectation further, there are 2.5 million individuals on probation or parole and 1 million individuals in jails or prisons (Morris & Tonry, 2013, p. 370). However, does every individual confined in jails and prisons still need to be there or is there a better way to deal with certain special prison populations? Due to the large number of prisoners within the correctional system, certain special populations of inmates do not receive the rehabilitation or care needed to successfully reintegrate back into society. Additionally, these special populations create an undue burden on the correctional system in terms of financial costs associated with their confinement. There are changes that can be made to the criminal justice system to accommodate special populations of inmates. This paper will explore the alternative

In the US, the number of incarcerated people in the prison systems cumulatively will form the fourth largest city in the US by population. This serves to underline the importance of addressing the issues that affect the prisoners and the other employees of these correctional services. The first issue that is affecting the success of the correctional services provided by the prison services is the congestion in the prisons. Most of the prisons in the United States were built a long time ago and with the increased population of imprisoned offenders, their capacity to handle prisoners has been greatly overstretched. An example of overstretched prison facilities is in the state of California where the state has been forced to transfer its prisoners

I am in favor of the transfer of juvenile to adult court, however, depending on the crimes that were committed. If the juvenile committed a violent crime, then they should be held liable as an adult. Any other crimes, for example petit theft or just disorderly conduct should stay in juvenile courts, since rehabilitate services might be more appropriate in these circumstances. The one thing that needs to be remembered is that adult prisons are way different than juvenile detention centers. Juveniles are the face of the future, and in some cases rehabilitations and treatments might be needed, and in adult prisons, these treatments will obviously be different. So as mentioned before, I believe that in some cases the transfer of juveniles to adult

With my last name starting with a W I had the option of choosing between four different chapters. Chapter 5 the Court System, Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons, Chapter 7 Probation and Parole, and Chapter 8 the Juvenile Justices System. This being a hard choice to narrow these four topics down to one I have decided to discuss Chapter 6 Jails and Prisons.

In this society it is easy to dismiss people as crazy, lazy, or violent without knowing a person’s full background. We all come from different walks of the life and we have a tendency to turn a blind eye to that fact. I look at our prison system and see an array of people incarcerated for many different reasons. The background and upbringing of a person plays a vital role in the type of person someone is going be when they grow up. A person who grew up in a home of violence will have to make a decision about their future. The things seen as a child will either cause a person to break mentally or they will have the determination to do better for their family and themselves. In some cases, a person will have to seek help in order to obtain

I think that any worker working in any fill, not only in the criminal justice system should be allowed to influence their own beliefs on job performance. The jail worker‘s believes are not an excuse not to provide a victim of rape with all available medications and sources. What about if these workers working in the hospital are she still will refused medication? We leave in country where the first Amendment gives us right of impeding the free exercise of religion, so that mean you have the right to believe in anything, but do not take my right also to believe in anything. So I believe people working in the social fill like teachers, police officers, politicians, doctors and lawyers cannot have their personal believes to impact their job duty.

On 10/06/17, at approximately 1743 hours, I Ofc Smith B3168 was serving chow by the front of D9 when I observed inmates grouping behind rows A, B and C. I stopped serving chow and walked to the rear of D9 and observed a food tray that had been dropped in front of the tables. Some inmates claimed that someone had dropped a tray and that is why everyone came over. I looked around and did not see any signs of any other activity taking place.

The article Mentally Ill Inmates Prone to Violence After Release: Study by Robert Preidt on September 3rd 2015 in Healthday discusses how prisoners with mental and substance-use disorders are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release than other inmates. Researchers did a study of ex-convicts in Sweden to get their results. 42 percent of men and 60 percent of women were diagnosed with at least one mental disorder prior to release. Researchers have found that the more co-existing psychiatric disorders the ex-inmates had, the greater risk of committing violent crimes. One in seven prisoners has a psychotic illness or major depression. In an average of three years, one quarter of men and 11 percent of women were convicted of

When it came to prisoners it would have been less costly to have alternative punishments or other treatments that could be involved in the community, but if you incarcerate the inmate then it makes them more likely to reoffend, and by this process it is creating more cost in the future. When it comes to women “Incarcerating women, in particular, increases the social cost of prisons because someone has to pay to take care of the children, and furthermore, when mothers do not care for their children personally, the kids are more likely to become offenders in the future” (Pryce, Vicky 2013 Prisonomics: Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons. London: Biteback , 336 pp). But if we were to invest money into other ideas that would give better

An extreme topic of importance in America would involve employment for former convicts. For former convicts, employment in America has become an issue on being able to obtain a stable job to support former convicts; while many debate on this topic of weather or not to provide ex-cons with a much stronger chance of acquiring a job. Researchers have come to possible theories, some believe assisting ex-cons will prevent recidivism, and people also believe this is false, and there are people with a neutral stance in these debates and look at this topic with a statistical view. Those who happen to disagree may believe to keep the employment involving former convicts the same laws set in place. The sources may have their different standing points

Question3: Do you think inmates in federal prisons should retain their democratic rights while incarcerated? Explain your position.

There are a few reasons why I believe that the inmate population is high. First, not only are we incarcerating serious offenders, we incarcerate offenders who have committed crimes that could have been handled with probation or other rehabilitative way. Second, those offenders that come from low income communities or the lower class, who cannot afford to pay their fines, court fees, or even bail, will end up spending time in jail until they pay their fines or have their day in court. Also, those offenders who receive a mandatory minimum sentence (Seiter, 2014) for a crime are sent to prison for years, when a judge could have given them probation or supervision. Lastly, there are not enough programs or businesses that help inmates reintegrate

With the termination of state psychiatric hospitals and the decline in funding for mental health benefits, many individuals with severe mental illnesses are entangled in the criminal justice system. Moreover, the country's jails and prisons have become hospitals for people with mental illnesses, many of whom also battle with substance abuse. There is a crucial need to repair a defective system. The criminal justice system must address the mass incarceration and impede public expenses that do not generate beneficial results in terms of providing valuable services and keeping extremely mentally ill persons out of the countries prisons and jails. Concentrating on this inadequacy will require the state and county policymakers to join forces; developing

The increase in the federal and state inmate prison population since1980’s was dramatic mainly because of the drug epicdemic. By the end of the 1980’s there were over a quarter of a million state and federal prisons inmates which was beginning to become concern because of prison over crowding and the increased cost. The prison population increased approximately 52 percent by the middle of the 1980’s. The totals had increased approximately 116 precent by the end of the 1980’s which was an average of 9 percent per year in the state and federal prisons. The trend of the population in the prisons slowed down in the early 1990’s to approximately 6.5 percent but rose again to more than the record high of 15 percent in 2009.