Jail System Analysis

The correctional system has three main goals: punish, protect the community and rehabilitate the offender. However, it is unclear how well the modern U.S correctional system achieves these goals and whether the money invested in the correctional system might be better spent. These are some of the points I will cover regarding what I think about the correctional system.

In prisons today, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution are all elements that provide a justice to society. Prisons effectively do their part in seeing that one if not more of these elements are met and successfully done. If it were not for these elements, than what would a prison be good for? It is highly debated upon whether or not these elements are done properly. It is a fact that these are and a fact that throughout the remainder of time these will be a successful part of prison life.

As understood by sociologists and scholars mass incarceration is a wide term that describes the increased rate of imprisonment in the prisons of United States for the past four decades. Accounting about 5% of the population of the world, United States recently have rapidly accommodated one-quarter of world prisoners. With the population statistics, the large numbers of prisoners leaves everyone with endless questions that need urgency in answering. Why the large number in the prisons? What are the causes of imprisonment? Are the constitutional laws in United States so harsh on minor faults that should have alternative ways of dealing with? Is justice really followed to the letter completely? And most importantly, who constitutes for these prisoners?

The Department of Corrections has continuously changed their goals and objectives throughout the history of corrections. The continuous changes to policies have many contributing factors beginning with the Attorney General, Governors, and appointed directors of the incarceration establishments. With changing laws, new problems arising and changing political stand points based on campaign agendas prisons themselves have been forced to adapt. When asked what the objectives of punishment are here in the U.S., my first thought would be that the goal of punishment would be to enforce society’s laws and

The prisons in America seem to cause more problems than assistance in today's society. The country's penal system is overcrowded, expensive, and some argue that is ineffective as well as inefficient. The costs to staff and support these facilities increase dramatically every year. Prisons, which are supposed to be correctional facilities, are currently filled with violence and hostility. These institutions are created to control crime by deterrence, incapacitating criminals, which protects society from potentially dangerous criminals, but it is hard to tell if this is being accomplished.

Within this paper, you will find a comprehensive review of the United States prison system, and why it needs to analyzed to better support and reform the people of this country. I plan to persuade the other side (politicians and society) into seeing that the way the prison system is now, is not ethical nor economical and it must change. We have one of the world’s largest prison population, but also a very high rate of recidivism. Recidivism is when the prisoners continuously return to prison without being reformed. They return for the same things that they were doing before. So, this leads us to ask what exactly are we doing wrong? When this happens, we as a nation must continuously pay to house and feed these inmates. The purpose of a prison needs to be examined so we can decide if we really are reforming our inmates, or just continuing a vicious cycle. What is the true purpose of prison besides just holding them in a cell? There must be more we can do for these hopeless members of society.

In order to start and continue to accomplish the German and Norweigan approach to incarceration the U.S. must create new sentencing models in order to stop mass incarceration. The U.S. centers its system on incapacitation, removing the possibility for the individual to commit further crimes, and punitive sanctions to punish individuals. By 2012, the prison population grew by 705 percent, meaning just a little under 1.4 million inmates. This increase in inmates can be analyzed in the harsh sentences for nonviolent crimes, such as drug possession. Mandatory minimums are responsible for the increase, which is why in order for these methods to be effective, they must be gotten rid of and a new method for punishing certain crimes should be established.

The Bureau has over 39,000 employees and multiple prisons throughout the United States. This agency analysis will briefly describe the agency at the national level, but will primarily focus on the agency I intern at by taking a look specifically at the role of psychology services.

Politicians all throughout America accept bribes from private prisons in the form of lobbying and campaign donations, private prisons support politicians who will ensure their cells remain full. Private prisons use their wealth and political influence to pass laws that require minimum sentencing, expand penal labor, and increase punishments for prisoners adding time to sentences. According to the private prison contractors Corrections Corp of America, in October 2015 California governor Jerry Brown signed a deal that would remove thousands of prisoners from Federal prisons in California and relocate them to a private prison outside of California, The deal requires California to fund the prisons with hundreds of millions of dollars at an annually

What is the purpose of prison? This question creates a great deal of debate. The communities, citizens and even prisoners are sometimes confused about the right answers. There is an ongoing debate about the purpose of the prison system in the United States. To the majority, the regulations of the prison system may seek deterrence, incapacitation, or retribution to avoid seeming to be too soft on criminals (Smit,2010). To others, “the regulations of the prison system may have opportunities to re-socialize prisoners or to effect changes in the personality,

After watching the ted talk, I learned all about Ismael’s story of his growing up in jail. As a young inmate, New York is one of two states that arrests and considers 16-17 years old as adults. When being in jail so young, I learned how there is nothing in their for you to correct yourself, its almost as if it does nothing. You commit a crime and get sentenced however long, and you just sit, with nothing to do, nothing to change you as person and teach you what you did was wrong. People might say that being in jail already makes you think about the person you are, and what you did, but that doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you “learn your lesson”. Returning back into society after years of nothing, can be rough. Starting all over from

The general topic that the article is addressing is the transformation process that brings common people to commit evil acts. The existence of evil within people and the process its undergoes until it dominates the acts of a good person. It approaches how the strength of a situation influences human individual behavior of people who can deliver love and nurturing attitudes to become persons that are capable of committing felonies. The purpose of the research described in this article seems to be to observe the impact of incarceration for both prisoners and guards and the deterioration of the spirits of the people in charge of administering the penal system and those who react to it. The author´s hypotheses is that is difficult to get to a final conclusion on what is the major harm from prisoners if the environment of prisons, the harm

This article is about a program that has been running in jail. This program allows mothers and children to share time together while the mother is serving her sentence. It creates a great starting relationship between the children and the mother, which children need when they are young to continue on their life. It’s been seen by people that by having the presence of a young child or infant in the room full of women prisoners, their behaviour tend to alter. They become more aware of how they act and what they say. There are a few jails currently that offer this program. The facilities are a bit different with this program, with warm coloured walls and daycare like home. Many doctors believe that this is a way that can alter the prisoner's behaviour and prevent more criminal activity from happening again if they have a bright side to look forward to. For example for mothers they want the best for their children and their bright side

What is the purpose of prison? It is believed that prison serves the purpose of punishing criminals for their wrongdoing and then releasing them back into society, ready to live a better life. Although in today’s times, it is more about punishment and not so much about rehabilitation. It is clear that prison is a pretty bad place, and that prison reform programs are way more effective at rehabilitation.

Prisons are facilities designed for individuals who have been convicted of crimes they have committed. Prisons accommodate inmates that are kept in custody for a period of time followed by trial. The type of crime an individual has committed is correlated to length of the sentence. In instances crimes such as murder people may be sentenced to lifetime imprisonment. The aim of the prison is to serve four purposes which are deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation and retribution. Deterrence refers to preventing future crimes, by this it discourages other people from committing a crime and breaking the law. Rehabilitation is intended to address the issue and bring out a change in the actions of the criminal by teaching them skills and educating