The Impact Of Religion On The Oklahoma Police Captain

While ‘Crisis’ may seem like an over-exaggerated term to describe the current state of the penal system, it emphasises the clear difficulties and potential dangers that which the penal system is facing. Factors related to a penal crisis include overcrowding, a breakdown of control, bad prison conditions, understaffing and a loss of security (Cavadino and Dignan, 2002).

Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com, a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes. Some riots are characterized by organization and demands, others by weak and confused formation of leadership, or conflict and violence among inmates themselves. In some riots, prisoners inflict suffering on hostages, inmates treat hostages well,

In 2007, a group of criminal justice experts got together and agreed reform was needed, and the legislature joined the discussion. Lance says that lock up numbers had been ballooning since the 1980s. Lots of prison violence prompted the solitary lock-up of prisoners in the 1980s, mostly a result of how the prison system was run. Turnkeys were used in the early 1980s. These were inmates who were given authority to do the job of guards, enforcing prison rules. They were chosen based on their ability to get things done. They were brutal and violent, and they were the ones in charge of “correcting” prisoners who messed up. William Wayne Justice put an end to the use of turnkeys in the mid 1980s, but problems escalated when he did because there was no proper control to replace turnkeys. Guards on duty then had already learned to relinquish their power to inmates. These guards had no proper training on the use of force. They had no experience handling trouble in the prison themselves. With no one in charge, violent prison gangs emerged to “keep the peace,” exponentially increasing the problems of prison violence that the elimination of turnkeys had hoped to fix. I asked Lance what was the first essential step in controlling a prison population is developing a staff of professionals through adequate training. Violence in prison has to be detected and addressed immediately for officers to maintain control. Lance is very critical of TDCJ’s

“A decade ago, Hempstead’s only full-time black police officer sued, alleging that Chief Smith had dismissed him on a trumped-up charge after he complained about his supervisor’s racial slurs. An African-American couple also sued, alleging that Chief Smith had turned them away when they reported that a white man had assaulted

At some point in my lifetime, I had learned that in prison, the correctional officers are naturally very tough, to the point of abuse on the inmates. I assume this was learned from watching “The Green Mile” years ago, where violence between guards and inmates make up a portion of the plot. Conover’s

North Charleston police department decided to release one of their officers from duty because he posted an inappropriate picture of himself on Facebook in a confederate flag boxer. The police sergeant, Shannon Dildine, did not feel like it was fair he got fired because he claims he did not break any laws. For this reason, he wants to be reinstated. He said, “There were no law violations or broken policies.” (Munday 2015)

People on drugs tend to act irrationally and do not always respond well to law enforcement. This can lead to conflict and violence towards law enforcement. Furthermore, an increase in gang activity and violence is a threat to law enforcement as certain gangs have a tendency to target law enforcement officers. An increase in drug trafficking is also a threat, especially to border patrol agents. Everyday law enforcement officers put their lives on the line to ensure the safety of their communities and enact justice. As criminal activity increases, the job of law enforcement officers becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous. This also poses a problem for individuals in communities in which these officers service. An increase in crimes perpetrated in response to the opiate epidemic may prevent police officers from responding to other calls. Therefore, criminal activity that threatens law enforcement also has potentially detrimental consequences for civilians within their

Instead of taking legal action as quickly as they did possibly going higher on the chain of command would have helped; nothing was being done by the warden, there may have been another individual or department official they could have turned to in order to address the situation. In regard to the retaliation, the officers could have requested a transfer to a different facility within California’s Department of Corrections. There are possibly several different

Q= what are the causes of staff on inmate, inmate on staff, and inmate on inmate violence in both prisons and jails? What can correctional administrators do to prevent or at least reduce violence in correctional facilities?

Religion can influence how a law enforcement officer conducts him or herself. However, faith can influence their actions, but when dealing with controversial situations, an officer, regardless of personal opinion, should conduct themselves in a manner which is respectful and honorable to their department and all parties involved.

Another key point he makes is that the drugs, and the crimes, cost more than they believed they would. Not many people take in consideration that you have many things to think about when someone is arrested for substance abuse (Doweiko p. 2). There are multiple factors to think about such as how families will take care of themselves if the one arrested was

In this paper the subject to discuss is the prevention and mitigation analysis of the Arizona Department of Correction’s Morey Unit hostage situation. This incident was very terrible in the United States history in escapes made from prisons. In Buckeye, Arizona at the Lewis Prison Correction facility in the Morey, on January 18, 2004, Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy made an attempt to escape from the unit by taking two correctional officers hostage and took over Morey’s unit tower, causing a 15-day hostage and standoff incident. The following discussion is an analysis of issues, prevention, and mitigation recommendations for future incidents aiming at fiscal, operational, and administrative problems

News reporters don't form great relationships with these facilities as they choose to remain more low key. “Corrections stories are difficult to produce because news media traditionally have only limited access to corrections sources. There is no corrections news beat that matches the police and court beats in journalism, so corrections stories are time consuming to produce because a pre-existing journalism-corrections link does not exist.”(Surette, 160) Double the work goes into producing these correctional stories. Most journalists do not find the stories to be worth it when comparing ratings to how much work goes into uncovering and producing these

Officer Johnny's wife loses her job, which ended up putting his family in a financial bind. I order to cover the monies needed officer Johnny took on anther job as a security officer where he wore the pant from his department and utilized the utility belt. All which is a clear cut violation of polices set by the department. These extra shifts with is causing a problem at work because he is now dumping

Ashley, I couldn’t agree with you more about how organizational communication is essential in the corrections field. Working in a prison around thousands of inmates can be extremely dangerous, therefore, proper communication amongst all personnel is mandatory. Body language can give the wrong impression, especially from an inmate to an officer. I have witnessed on numerous occasions inmates come to the shift office acting belligerent and not following direct order of an officer, and it did cause quite a problem. I believe communication is the only way to get the best solution in any organization.