Walnut Street Jail Janice Tighe Harrison College History of Criminal Justice Mr. Royer 10/17/11 As a Criminal Justice student it is important to know and understand some of the history of our Criminal Justice system. One aspect to know would be the history of our correctional system, in particular the Walnut Street Jail. Before the creation of the Walnut Street Jail life for prisoners was cruel and inhumane. As our text states “By the late eighteenth century, men, women, and children were till mixed together in many American jails. Before the birth of the modern penitentiary at Walnut Street (Philadelphia) in 1790, prisoners endured unimaginable squalor” (Roth, 2011, p. 86).
| In the Criminal Justice system we have state and federal prison to put offenders.. The difference between state and federal is that the population is different. In that happens because it all depends on the conviction status, offense distribution and average length of stay. Federal prisoners are incarcerated because they committed a federal law and a state prisoner is behind bars for committing a state law. Now the biggest different is the time they will serve.
359) it was assumed that the most common exclusion was re-incarceration at the time of or shortly after release. The demographics and clinical characteristics reflecting the HIV-infected incarcerated population was most of the participants were male and African-American, almost three quarters had prior prison incarcerations and over half suffer from depression. “Of the 89 subjects included in the analyses, 31 (72.1%) in the BCM and 28 (60.9%) in the SOC arms completed the week 48
Not only is there four different types of prisons, there are different security levels for different prison as well. Maximum security prisons usually house the offenders who have committed the worst types of crimes and those that have been sentenced to death. Medium security prisoners have a little more privileges than the offenders in a maximum security prison. Prisoners in a minimum security prison are under only general supervision and usually have access to recreational, educational, and skills-training programs on the prison grounds. Jails tend to be considered the lowest security confinement.
Checkpoint Jails and Prisons Response When you look at the prison system today there is a large amount of facilities out there used to house inmates. The facility that the offender is placed in is determined by what they have done wrong or the nature of the crime that they committed and their mental status. The common four prisons that will be talked about are the federal prisons, state prisons, private prisons, and county and local jails. One of the big differences in the private prisons is they have contracted out by the government to provide facilities that will be like the state and federal prisons. These private facilities can free up space in the government institutions to help prevent over-crowding.
Corrections History and Institutions Cherese Murphy CJA/234 June 14, 2012 Samantha Scales Corrections History and Institutions Since 1790 jails have played a major role in the correctional system (Richard P. Seiter (2011)). Jails in the United States are correctional facilities that hold people before and after adjudication. However, jails are sometimes confused with lockups; lockup only holds offenders for a short period of time, which is normally 48 hours or less. Jail facilities provide: services to rehabilitate offenders, security, food, and health care. Although there are various ways of describing jail facilities, such as: correctional center, detention facility, house of correction, and prison they all have common roles (Richard P. Seiter (2011)).
Scholars Mears, Cochran, Siennick and Bales will discuss implications of the findings for research and policy in this article. America has entered what many scholars have described as an era of mass incarceration in recent decades. (Clear, 2007; Garland 2001; Gottschalk, 2006; Rosenfeld & Messner, 2010). It is estimated that over 1.6 million individuals are in America's state and federal prisons (West 2010) and perhaps over 735,000 are released back into society annually. (Sabol, West & Cooper, 2009).
Prison Overcrowding Angela Thompson Trident Technical College Prison Overcrowding Introduction Discussions of overcrowding frequently merge concerns about state and federal prisons together with municipal and county jails, which in states such as Pennsylvania, are confusingly referred to as county prisons. With the exception of Alaska, Hawaii, and a small number of north-eastern states that operate integrated jail/prison systems, state and federal prisons or penitentiaries house exclusively sentenced felons, usually committed for a minimum of one year. Jails typically holds varying proportions of felons and misdemeanants sentenced to less than one year. However, they also house pre-trial detainees who have not yet been convicted but are held pending prosecution and disposition of their cases, usually because they have not been able to secure pretrial release by posting bail. Because the extent of crowding, along with the reasons, consequences, and potential remedies can vary considerably depending upon whether the focus is on prisons versus jails, it is important to separate the two.
At (You’re Prison). These physical barriers are: Prison Categories There are 4 different types of prisons in the United Kingdom. These prisons are known as type A, B, C and D. These categories are based on three bases, threat to society, risk of escape, severity of the crime. Category A, B and C prisons are called closed prisons, whilst category D prisons are called open prisons. Category A prisoners are further divided into Standard Risk, High Risk, and Exceptional Risk, based on their likelihood of escaping Type A – These prisoners are a threat on all three bases, these prisoners require maximum security throughout their full sentence.
Whose silence? Statistics -US have the highest incarceration rate in the world. 730 people out of 10000 -2.3 million people are locked up on any given day -Women are 10% of the prison population Quotes -“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” -“A society’s attitude to its prisoners Churchill -“It is said that no one truly knows a nation” Mandela Prison Obscura -Consciously rejects the tradition of documentary photography -Amplitude of the message is better when it is unmediated, comes from prisoner’s voices -“These photos allow us to see prisoners through the lens of loved ones, families and children- as opposed to through the lens of criminality” Alyse Emdur -Alyse takes pictures of performative American vernacular photography -Robert Gumpert the storyteller who just listens -Deborah Lee Worledge trans-female raised by wolves -Klavdij Sluban “Jails are a world to be discovered” -IMU most locked down for juveniles, Steve Davis -Talk about a window to yourself- always a time before the fall- innocence -The mid summer sun was slowly absorbed photosynthesized into an unconscious smile across my face. Fresh air rushes in and gentle confidence rolls out. -Washington DC does not have prisons, sent to another state -Josh Begley, Prison Map- google earth photos of prisons- most prisons have been build in the past 30 years to prop up isolated economies where industry has left -Plata vs. Brown, however it was claimed that holding cages and over crowded living quarters were too inconcise