The Importance Of Force Entry In Prison

Despite the fact that my parents have worked in the criminal justice system for many years, I have never given much thought to the treatment of prisoners. As we learned from the readings, the current state of the United States criminal justice system is imperfect to the point of cruelty to those involved in it. This is truer for individuals with a mental illness. Due to a lack of psychiatric facilities throughout Alabama and overcrowding of those that do exist, many criminal offenders with mental illnesses are sent to prisons instead. State prisons are currently overcrowded, leading to substandard conditions such in almost every aspect.

On March 31, 2016, While assigned to Legacy High School located at 1261 N. Main St. Mansfield, Tx 75603, I, Officer B. McMillon, # 135, of the MISD PD was dispatched to the MISD PD lobby in reference to hit an run that occurred in the parking lot of Lake Ridge High School located at 101 N. Day Miar Rd.

On 08/20/2017 at 1002 hours FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to St. Luke’s Hospital emergency room entrance, on 3555 Cesar Chavez St., regarding a women in a hospital gown trying to break the caller’s vehicle window with a brick. Officer Wheeler and I were in full police uniform driving a marked patrol unit when we responded.

While doing a High Visibility Deterrant in lot #25, we were requested to assist WPD at 1712 hours by WPD Scat 248D Jared M Henry #2271. WSU Officer Dickerson #155 contacted WSU Sergeant Brad Agnew #153 by radio to confirm if he heard WPD's request for WSU officer. WSU Sergeant Brad Agnew #153 confirmed and told Officer Dickerson and I to switch over. Officer Dickerson confirmed WSU Sergeant Brad Agnew's traffic and radioed WSU dispatch to inform we would be switching to the WPD North channel. WSU Sergeant Brad Agnew #153 then informed us to not get involved and to switch our radioes to the Letac 10 channel and we did so. Officer Dickerson #155 then informed Letac 10 dispatch that we (WSU 202) would be assisting.

Mother Behind Bars examines a lot of inadequate policies and procedures that these states have in place for federal and state correctional facilities. This report card bring up the issue on prenatal care, shackling, prison nurseries, and family based treatment as an alternative to incarceration however in this paper I will focus on the restraints on these pregnant inmates. New Jersey received a grade of D for shackling policies. Besides New Jersey thirty-seven other states obtain a D/F for their failure to comprehensively limit, or limit at all, the use of restraints on pregnant women transportation, labor, delivery, and postpartum recuperation (National Women’s Law Center, 2010). The use of restraints can compromise the health and safety of the women and the unborn child. Shackling pregnant women is dangerous and inhumane; women prisoners are still routinely shackled during pregnancy and childbirth. The reason these women are shackled is for safety and security, despite the fact that shackling pregnant women is degrading, unnecessary and a violation of human rights some state still condone this practice.

The United States prison system struggles eminently with keeping offenders out of prison after being released. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than third of all prisoners who were arrested within five years of released were arrested within six months after release, with more than half arrested by the end of the year (Hughes, Wilson, & Beck, 2001). Among prisoners released in 2005 in 23 states with available data on inmates returned to prison, about half (55 percent) had either a parole or probation violation or an arrest for a new offense within three years that led to imprisonment (Durose, Cooper, & Snyder, 2014). Why are there many ex-offenders going back to prison within the first five years of release? Are there not enough resources to help offenders before or/and after being released from prison.

On 11-30-2015 at approximately 1550 hours I Officer Hildebrand, Officer Kevin Engle, Sgt Joseph Harris responded to a medical call on MRL (Montana Rail Link) property. The incident occurred on MRL property near Bennett street and Park street train trestle.

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.

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.

I am writing you because I was recently in court for a probation violation and was sentenced to 30 days of jail time. However, there are some obstacles I am trying to work through. I have two minor children that I am the sole guardian of. I have no family residing in Minnesota to help me while I take care of my jail time.

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In this article, Judge Recommends Terminating Six Rikers Island Officers for Beating Inmate, author talked about the behavior of the correctional officers towards the inmates (Barajas, 2014). After reading the article I started thinking; what is it that causes correctional officers to want to beat or impose the pressure on the prisoners or inmates. These inmates are listening to officers and not questioning because officers are the authority. I believe that people want to obey the rules and the authority because they do not want any negative consequences. Moreover, people obey the authority because they believe that the authority is legitimate. It is now understandable why people want to be obedient to authority but what happens when the authority

Issues surrounding the utility and costs of the use of force by correctional officers remain largely unresolved. (Carlson & Garrett, 2008) Corrections institutions are extremely tough organizations in which all activities are carried out in an environment of uncertainty. (Carlson & Garrett, 2008) In both jails and prisons, where staffs are usually unarmed and always outnumbered by the population of resistant prisoners, the ability of staff to control the prisoners is a matter of major importance. (Carlson & Garrett, 2008)But the policy that gives correctional officers license to use force only when no reasonable effective alternative appear to exist. (Boston, 2006) The level of force and the type of weapon best suited to a particular incident

On 10/11/2015 SO EMT Perez was dispatched to FC-218 regaurding an issue concerning a broken power outlet. SO EMT Perez knocked and announced his presence at the door and was greeted by the resident, A Mr. Robert O'Steen. Mr. Robert O'Steen stated that he was not recieveing power to the outlet where his phone was plugged into and believed it might of been the result of a flood he had in his apartment a couple days prior. SO EMT Perez examined the outlet and the circut breaker, after insuring there was no water and condensation on the panel SO EMT Perez reset the panel and the power supply was reconnected to the outlet. After insuring Mr. Robert O'Steen needed nothing else SO EMT Perez showed himself out of the apartment. SO EMT Perez cleared

Michel Foucault is a very famous French intellectual who practiced the knowledge of sociology. Foucault analyzed how knowledge related to social structures, in particular the concept of punishment within the penal system. His theory through, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, is a detailed outline of the disciplinary society; in which organizes populations, their relations to power formations, and the corresponding conceptions of the subjects themselves. Previously, this type of punishment focused on torture and dismemberment, in which was applied directly to bodies. Foucault mentions through his literary piece, “the soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy: the soul is the prison of the body (p.30). However, today, the notion of punishment involves public appearances in a court and much more humane sentences. However, it is important to note and to understand the idea of power and knowledge; it is fundamental to understand the social system as a whole.