After viciously beating a disrespectful inmate Jackson says, “throw him in his cell, let everybody see it!” Correctional officer corruption goes even further than barbaric behavior. On October 12, 2010 a thirty-year-old corrections officer was arrested after an interview with Wenatchee police investigators and booked into the Grant County Jail for investigation of bribery, forgery, complicity to escape, introduction of contraband and official misconduct. (www.kirotv.com/news) Corrections officer misconduct sets a bad example for prisoners as well as the Department of
members violence would conclude but that did not stop the brand. The gang is continuing to murder inmates and from their maximum security cells they skillful crafted a race war where two black inmates were killed. Unfortunately authorities have not been able to prevent the A.B. from committing sadistic acts. In 2006 a federal indictment was issued to the so-called veterans of the A.B.
In an effort to make this experiment as real as possible, the college students were picked up by a police officer, read their rights and formally arrested, while neighbors watched in disbelief. Upon booking prisoners experienced a loss of control for their own lives. These events made them feel dehumanized, helpless and fearful. After prisoners made it to their cell and the study truly began some prisoners were made to feel
Sometimes parents are to blame, sometimes the neighborhood you live in is to blame, but more recently the derivative of gun violence is the gangs. In the fifties gang were produced to stop the whites from entering the blacks communities to terrorize them. The purpose of the gangs back then was to protect their neighborhood. Now with the gangs fighting for territory and respect it seems like they have become greedy and wanting more power, money and respect. These thing have been achieved through violence most of it through gun play.
Prison Gangs Dealing with prison gangs is a task that is not easily rectified by prison staff. New and techniques to get messages from gang members inside prison to their counterparts outside prison walls is ever changing. Just when you think you have figured out how they are communicating to each other, gang members come up with new and alternate means to get the message out. This is not only true to gangs with members on the outside, but with gangs that are entirely made up of inmates as well. One possible way to deal with the growing problem of prison gangs and the violence that is often associated with them is to identify members and keep them separated (Demsky, 2009).
In the Abu Ghraib prison scandal of 2004, Iraqi prisoners were interrogated where accounts of psychololgical, physical and sexual abuse, including torture, rape and homicide. This “form” of interrogation was practiced my U.S. military police at the prison. Although the solders are responsible for there actions they where under strict orders that went against the Geneva convention conduct of war. When the scandal surfaced the U.S. government denied all knowledge and participation and blamed the solders. After comparing the Abu Ghraib schandle and the Milgram experiment its easy to see that the government had a big roll in influencing soilders.
The government have been extending the previous sentence for carrying a knife to strike fear into wielders of weapons. The police have a dedicated team which are able to stop and search the local people of an area to try and prevent any further problems which could be happening. Also the police have the power to stop and search under reasonable suspicion and a section 60 which is where the police will lock down a whole area and have the power to randomly search people and vehicles but mainly targeting the ‘main players’ of knife crime. When TKAP came into play, in the 10 area’s it had targeted police had raised the provisional number of stop and searches which lead to a reduction of knifes carried by 19 year olds and under but unfortunately raised the
He says, “Men were bought, sold, prostituted, or beaten at my command. Power had so corrupted me; I began challenging the administration of the unit. I honestly felt I could take over. When the administration saw my rebellion, they removed me from a housing assignment with trustee class inmates and placed me among the troublemakers. The gang intelligence officer told me that he knew I was
If you commit a terrible crime such as being a sexual predator/child molester or something of that nature the shame will be with you the rest of your life and it’s going to be hard overlooking it because of the laws we have placed. In jail the inmates will even look down on you and treat you like scum they will even threaten your life. The shame for somebody doesn’t stop after the crime has been forgotten about or once they are out of jail. They have to register themselves as a sexual offender you can’t just move and try to leave it behind you. With the internet we have websites that allow us to see if sex offenders live near us it will give you there exact address.
Prison Environment I would describe the prison environment as a place where people are sent after they have committed a crime. In this environment, the offenders are locked up away from society and are stripped of the freedoms that they had before they were sent to prison. In this environment, the offenders must abide by strict rules, be confined to a small space, and are told when/if they can have visitors. The prison environment influences institutional management and custody in several ways. One of which being overcrowding.