Structural Organization : The Middle River Regional Jail

Glen Loury argues in his essay called “A Nation of Jailer” that the United States is a nation that follows a society that has been affected by racial bias. Loury claims that the people who are targeted by law are racial discriminated. Loury mainly talks about the “poorly educated black and Hispanic men who reside in large numbers in our great urban centers.” (1) Loury has made a clear and strong point. Loury shows his points in three main ways. Loury emphasizes his points by using ethos, logos, and pathos. Loury uses many well-known characters in his writing, and Loury uses strong phrases that impact the reader emotionally and questions to make sure the reader has some sort of connection to Loury’s evidence. Furthermore, Loury gives a lot

State-run jails are currently operated in four states Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These states have full operations and responsibility for their jails. Alaska also has a state operated jail system (pg.80). State-run jails are more effecientally ran but, most counties are not likely to choose this method. Cooperative (regional) arrangements are widely used. Kentucky, Virginia,

Last, but not least are perimeter security and relief officers. They make sure that the perimeter around the prison is secure. Relief officers are there to relief officers and to help with officers who are sick and have to call- in for that day. Each officer is assigned to post order which is “the detailed description of the activities that are required to be performed throughout the day, often including the time hey are to occur” (Seiter, 2011).

..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

A report dated on April two thousand and seventeen stated that more than one hundred gay men have been arrested since the beginning of two thousand and seventeen. By the end of July, a report indicated that a hundred thirty more are looking for help since the persecution targeting the LGBTQ+ in Chechnya. Ethos is used by interviewing two former prisoners and victims during their time at the secret concentration prison camps.

The booking department is where the inmate picture is taken. Inmates go through a medical screening. Here they check your blood pressure, temperature, pulse and weight. Tfhey also give you TB skin test. While in this department inmates are given a uniform which will let all jail personnel know what area of the jail you belong. The uniforms come in several colors. The color that an inmate receives is based on the crime the inmate is being charged with. The uniform can come in many different colors such as blue and white, red and white, and Green. The blue and white stripes are for drug offenders. The red and white stripes are for murder chargers, and Green is for ladies inmates and petty crimes offenders. The inmates are also searched in this department before going to the next department.

Correctional Officer’s have been around for a very long time and were designed to keep major offenders off the street after they have been arrested by the Police. The offenders are put in a holding cell at a Pre Trial Centre awaiting their court date.

In 2011, I spent time serving in prisons with a church organization who’s goal was to change the systemic problems within the prison system. This caused me to examine all aspects of inequality and oppression that disproportionately affects people of color.

Out of all of the topics discussed in Module 5, Rivers Island had caught my attention. To the point that I decided to do my own extensive research on the topic. Jails in our criminal justice system are known to be corrupt and ruthless. After watching the video about Rikers Island, it concluded how corrupt our system is and why there is a desperate need for change. Rikers Island is the pure example of what most people would think every jail in America is like. The media has altered the vision of how jail and prison is like in America, but its crazy how Rikers Island is the exact image of the corruption.

There is no typical jail. Many jails are part of multipurpose buildings that also serve as the county courthouse, the sheriff's office, or the police station. Others are larger and self-contained. Although it is often charged that most jails are antiquated, the majority of jails were opened between the 1950s and 1980s. Although most jails are small, rural or suburban facilities, almost half of all jailed prisoners are in large urban institutions, which tend to be chronically overcrowded. Many jails utilize double occupancy, perching two or more inmates into cells designed for one. Large numbers of inmates are also housed in dormitories. Many of these arrangements are a far cry from meeting the standards promulgated by the Commission on Accreditation

State run jail are one of the three local control of jails alternatives. State run is an operated jail system that is ran in four states such as Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. These four states have full operational responsibility for jails. This is for the exception of Alaska and five locally operated jails. Cooperative regional arrangements is local control of jails that focus more on the local or state control. The states that was the first to adopt the regional jails are Virginia, North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. The arrangements takes place when jurisdiction is willing to contact with neighboring cities and countries to discuss the housing of prisoners. If the government decides that no

Prison architect is a building game that takes inspiration from classic building games, such as roller coaster tycoon and theme hospital. The game play matches these types of games with the immense amount of customization, you could build every aspect of your prison the exact way you would like it. If you build a cell block and you feel the prisoners in that cell are more likely to cause trouble than the other inmates in the prison you can create a patrol route and assign guards, armed guards and even sniffer dogs to that patrol route, and you are probably going to have to because inmates are smart, and if they know that no guards are patrolling their cell area they are more than likely going to attempt to dig their way out of that cell. In prison architect you have a ton of customization, like a upgrade system that let's you hire staff to unlock land expansions, guard patrol routes, grants and even death row inmates. Prison architect also has a story that is built to teach you the basics of building and maintaining a prison.

It was the biggest jail built in Victoria in the 19th century and housed men, women and children, according to the Heritage Council Victoria.

Wallace Stegner once said, “Nothing in our history has bound us to a plot of ground [since] feudalism once bound Europeans” (Stegner 301). The only exception is being imprisoned. For those who brake society’s set laws, “Prisons and their many variants are built environments whose intended purpose is punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation and incapacitation” (Awofeso). Prisons began to be more widely used because the early Catholic Church disapproved of physical punishments. In 1298, Pope Boniface VIII authorized that incarceration and lack of liberty will take the place of the “eye for an eye” way of settling disputes previously employed (Awofeso). Today,

Mediation will be conducted between Mr. Derrick Cephas, Chairperson of the New York City Board of Corrections (NYCBOC) and Ms. Ariana King*, who is a founding member of a group called CloseRiker. As one could speculate, the relationship between the two entities has always been troublesome, as both sides continue to push their agenda via the media. According to the documents, Ms. King would like to have Rikers Island City Jail shut down immediately, yet Mr. Cephas feels as if changes could be made and the jail would not have to be shut down. Ms. King has filed a case with the State of New York Attorney’s Office in addition to requesting the federal government step in and order the jail be shut down. As part of the process or resolution, the judge that would hear the case in New York state, Judge William Brown*, has ordered the case to mediation before he will hear the case.