| 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.
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).
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People don’t just end up in prison, in order to be incarcerated a person needs to be accused of a crime. Then they are booked, put on trial and convicted by a jury. Once this process is finished the criminal will be given a sentence that is to be carried out in prison. Over the years, the lives inmates have led in prisons have changed drastically. Prisons haven’t always been what we see today.
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)). Jails detain many types of offenders, including the following: inmates with short sentences, juveniles waiting to be transferred to juvenile corrections, people mentally ill and waiting to go to mental health facilities, people awaiting arraignment, trial, conviction, or sentencing, people who violate bail bond, parole, probation, inmates who are waiting to be transferred to federal, state, and people detain on behalf of the military, for protective custody, contempt’s, and for court witnesses (Richard P. Seiter (2011)). As of 2008, there were a total of 312 private jails and prisons operating in the United States (Richard P. Seiter (2011)). In 2008 the incarceration rate was extremely high; the local jails had a total of 785,556 inmates (Richard P. Seiter (2011)). The incarceration rate is determined by the number of people per 100,000 U.S. citizens who are incarcerated either in jail or prison.
Rick Holland American Corrections Phase 4 IP Professor Dawn Howell 12/15/14 “Objective jail classification (OJC) is a process of assessing every jail inmate's custody and program needs and is considered one of the most important management tools available to jail administrators and criminal justice system planners. An effective system of inmate classification will reduce escapes and escape attempts, suicides and suicide attempts, and inmate assaults.” (NICIN, 2006) Upon being convicted of a crime worthy of a prison sentence the convicted criminal are referred to a reception area for classification. This classification determines what facility and what level of confinement he or she will receive. In the State of California,” upon arrival to a prison Reception Center, the inmate must go through the reception and classification process. This could take up to 120 days.
Special Offenders Special Offenders There are many different types of special offenders, and they all have individual needs and circumstances. Within this paper topics such as how individual needs, the mentally ill, and substance abusing prisoners affect the prison system at state and federal levels, as well as looking at what happens when these prisoners are not cared for properly. Closing the ideas around the substance-abusing programs will be looked at explaining the characteristics of the program and how the program has affected the substance abusing population. What is a Special Offender It seems that today's criminal justice system just about every offender is considered special. "Most correctional agencies are organized to manage, control, and treat the typical adult offender, who is relatively young, is in good physical and mental health, does not have a serious substance abuse problem and is not a sex offender.
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.
The nature of a crime determines the level of a prison, if a person committed a more violent crime; it is likely that he would be sent to a more secured level of a prison. A review is made of all the material collected about the prisoner, including the presentence report. A classification committee, which includes a custody staff member, makes the final decision at what level (there are five classifications levels - I through V) to house the prisoner based on recommendations made by a processor who has evaluated all the reports and test results. (Michigan.gov, 2014) In order to explain the classification levels for inmates, one must understand the levels of security. All prisons erected in the United States have some level of security where inmates can be housed.
The Advantages of Becoming a Surveillance Society by Rey A. Oquendo Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice Professor Loyal G. Evans 18 July 2010 Introduction Are we becoming a surveillance society? In a society fixated with punishing criminals with severity a new trend is taking the place of traditional prison or jail terms; electronic monitoring (EM). We still want to see our criminals receive the punishment they deserve for committing crimes. The problem we have is that our jails and prisons are so overcrowded that there is no room to house everyone inside. This is where electronic monitoring comes into play.