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).
What would happen if |They are also different because of the seriousness of the crime is. If jail inmates | |jail inmates were assimilated into prison |were assimilated into prison it would probably be too overcrowded. | |systems effective immediately? | | |How would you describe prison life? How has |I really can’t explain how the prison life I can only describe what I have read about.| |prison life changed over time?
| 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.
State and Federal Prison Systems Jessica Cross CJS/230 9/9/2012 We have both federal and state prison’s so that there is a place to hold people that break federal laws which can have a harsher sentence. With state prison’s people that break the law in the state or just in the cities they are housed here. It helps keep people seperated based on what laws they break. Even though both federal and state prison’s are built exactly the same, the differences are what lies within and what they are used for. A local jail is used to incarcerate offenders for a time period of a year or less.
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.
GANGS IN THE PRISON SYSTEM Prison Gangs Prison gangs have been around since the time that correctional facilities were created. In today’s prison systems, prison gangs are referred to as Security Threat Groups or STG’s. The actual number of security threat groups in the correctional systems today is too many to mention. There are STG’s that were created and only exist in prisons. There are STG’s that were created outside of the prison walls and were formed on the inside as those members became incarcerated.
Criminal Justice April 4, 2011 Term Paper For many years, abuse in prisons has been a serious issue and over the years, the abuse has only gotten worse. We see on the news of this happening in other countries but many Americans do not realize this is happening in our country as well, right under our noses. Some of the most unimaginable things take place in prisons not too far from where we live. Everyday, inmates undergo a variance of different forms of abuse. According to www.hrw.org, some forms of abuse are being beaten with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic devices, doused with chemical sprays, choked, and slammed face first onto concrete floors by the officers whose job it is to guard them.
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.
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.
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.