Jails Used In Prison

Andersonville was a Confederate prison built in 1864 at Andersonville, Georgia. It was designed to hold Union prisoners of war during the Civil War. It was official named was Camp Sumter, however it’s better known as Andersonville. It was built from the ground up by local slave labor. At the time it was 10 ½ acres long and designed to hold about 10,000 men. The camp was enclosed out of 15 to 17 inch hewed pine logs. Along the walls were guard towers (referred to as pigeon roosts by the inmates) placed every 90 feet around the stockade walls.

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.

Design: Campus, this allows for a more college-like atmosphere so inmates can focus on education, learning new skills, and how to adapt back into society.

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.

Close the prison is the California State Prison in Sacramento also known as “New Folsom” which houses about 3,000 level 4 inmates. Level 4 inmates are gang members, violent predators, and the prisoners that are unable to adjust to other facilities or obey the rules. Unlike the other Folsom, there is no wall surrounding them, instead, they are surrounded by an electric fence surrounding the prison. Most of the prisons in California are overcrowded and the inmates will most likely be a source of profit. Inmates will be a source of profit because some companies can buy the prison and the more prisoners there are the more money they make. Although in order to understand the prison complex you also need to understand capitalism and capitalism is an economic and political system when a country’s trade and industry are run by private owners for profit rather than the

The Confederacy established Andersonville, that most infamous of Civil War prisons, in late February, 1864. It built a stockade in west central Georgia to accommodate approximately 10,000 prisoners of war. As the fighting moved ever deeper into the South in the last year of the war, the expanded stockade at one point held nearly 33,000 Union soldiers. The termination by the North of the prisoner of war exchanges which had existed previously and the continually depleting resources of the Confederacy left these prisoners stranded in miserable conditions.

Even though the prison was improving its conditions, they did not think about expanding even more. The purpose of the prison was to rehabilitate inmates through solitary confinement and with the overcrowding, it was impossible. With the overcrowding, prisoners began to fight each other and caused violent outbreaks. Soon it became unhealthy, dirty, and unsafe for inmates. In the end, the jail failed due to poor architecture and lack of staying organized. About 30 to 40 inmates were being placed in one room where they would all have to seep on the floor. It failed to focus on their goal which was to keep prisoners separately so that they could self-reflect. Later, the Eastern Pennsylvania Prison was built to replace the Walnut Street Jail. A prison in which also put their inmates in solitary

It served as the county jail for almost a century, and housed criminals convicted for crimes or awaiting trails.

Dartmoor may have had its fancies but it still was a prison, a very harsh prison at that. Two hundred and seventy American’s died there due to floggings, illness, food poisoning, exposure, infection,

The world famous Johnny Cash played a concert at the prison in 1968. The lucky prisoners who got to attend lived in their own cell and all were in facility programs such as, education program or learning a trade. After the concert many prisoner who were released did not return to the prison as offenders. Folsom also has been the caught the eye of many directors and having a number of feature films filmed inside Folsom, including Riot in Cell Block 11, Heat (1995), American Me, The Jericho Mile, Another 48 Hrs., and Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison.

The first floor's solitary confinement cell and steel cage cellblock are much as they were when the jail was closed in 1958. The second floor has rooms furnished with artifacts from the late 1800s

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.

Prisons that have seen an increase in the number of prisoners that will never leave have had to remove facilities such as auto shops and job training facilities used for prisoners to make more room for housing.

In 1884 the Hyde Park Barracks changed from to a Female Immigration Depot. The convicts in Hyde Park were relocated to Cockatoo Island. Orphan girls from Ireland, females from the jailhouses of Britain, young women looking for new prospects, and women and children of convicts were provided with short-term shelter until they were collected by family or friends or waiting to be employed. At dusk, they slept on iron beds in dormitories. In 1862 the main buildings top floor was transformed into an asylum, offering care and housing for aged, poor, terminally and mentally ill women.

As you take a closer look to those pre-existing prisons in cities such as Auburn and Huntsville, they are described to have a “congregate design” and seem to be a “factory like” setting. These prisons