More detailed studies are important to help answer the effectiveness of DTC to rehabilitate better than incarceration. This research will improve upon the other studies by attempting to solve their limitations. The idea of a third unknown variable resulting in a successful rehabilitation will be answered by continually surveying the 100 participants to the reason for their success. The limitation of not being made aware of an out of state arrest could be monitored by yearly checkups of the participants. The implication of proving that DTCs can better rehabilitate offenders than correctional facilities would revolutionize the judicial response to drug related crimes.
The second factor that needs to be considered is the routine the inmates faced on a day to day basis and the outcome of the rehabilitation. Prior to Pentonville, prisons were used as holding bays for those on death row and debtors, due to prisons being unfeasible for long term incarceration. Prisons were corrupt environments were ‘prisoners were in the company of criminals of every class and degree’ . Subsequently it can be claimed that having ‘passed time, he returns a greater adept in crime, with a wider acquaintance among criminals’ . During the time of the report the Lords Select Committee had promoted the silent system which had been adopted at Wakefield Goal and Coldbath fields in 1834.
Abstract Recidivism dropped by 64% as a result of of correctional counseling/ treatment (Lipsey & Wilson, 2001) According to Van Voorhis, Braswell and Lester and an acceptable level of 10% was the average reduction across the studies. This proposal, which will talk about group counseling in a correctional facility, it will focus on setting up helpful coping skills for inmates who have difficulties adjusting to being imprisoned. The main focus of the group is social learning skills, appropriate cognitive-behavioral approaches and growth of the inmate’s while in an imprisoned environment. By implementing these skills, hopefully they will bring about an altogether change to the inmates projection of irresponsible behavior. Because of distinctiveness of the environment only those participants who have psychological assessment similarities are the only individuals allowed into the group.
However, changes have been made to correct the issue and results have been promising. The criminal justice system has implemented community corrections and began educating and providing rehabilitation services to inmates. This has reduce overcrowded prisons because of the alternative punishments to incarceration. It has also reduced recidivism rates by giving inmates the necessary skills to become productive law abiding
Being a correctional officer is enforcing rules and regulations that may help offenders look up to the correctional officers for advice or see them as a mentor. This job involves overseeing people who have been arrested and are awaiting a trial or who have been convicted of their crime and are sentenced to jail or prison. Correctional officers whom work in local jails work with around 13 million people per year, with about 80,000 inmates at any one time. The main
Community Corrections Paper Community Corrections Paper CJS/230 October, 28th 2011 “Those small relatively inexpensive changes in the right places can do much to increase the likelihood of successful community corrections.” Community Corrections Abstract In this paper, I will be discussing how community correction has an effect on society. I will also give you my hypothesis about community correction and its effectiveness in the criminal justice system. I want to describe prison system in other countries, and also show you how other nations practice imprisonment in their countries. I hope this paper will give you much in insight on Community Corrections. Community Correction also known as probation or
Individuals who are law-abiding citizens should be able to rest and know that the streets are free from persons who have committed crimes such as armed robbery and other felony crimes. An offender who has committed felony crimes previously should be disciplined much harshly than the times before. According to the criminologist, the punishment which an individual commits should be harsher than the crime which has been committed. The current recommendations for the prison term policy for an individual who has committed armed robbery should be as follow: Each is a repeat offender of an armed robbery will do a maximum sentence of 10-20 years. Along, with the 10-20 years, 10 -15 years of probation will be added.
The second strategy is to reduce the time that offenders spend in prison. This may be done by speeding up court hearings for those who are detained before trial. In addition, the length of sentences imposed on offenders can be reduced, or prisoners who behaved may be released early for good behavior. Some countries have adopted parole as a means to do this. In my opinion both strategies combined will be the best solution.
This is determined by the Federal Marshals that move the individuals from Federal Facility to Federal Facility. The person is entered into SENTRY which is a database that has all the Federal Inmates on file for the any Federal Corrections staff member to look up it is used to keep tabs on inmates. An individual can be given four types of levels of classification. The lowest level of security is community and people on this level are eligible for community based punishments, and the person is permitted to leave confines of the prison unattended and go on furloughs, which are also unsupervised. The person is also available to attend a Community Corrections Centers when the person is released.
But not all criminal can go into the same classification and level of prison. Thus the reason for different types of prisons and levels. Classifying Different types of Prisons The Five types of prisons are Juvenile, Women’s prisons, Military prisons, Political prisons, and Psychiatric facilities. Juvenile facilities are for youth under the age of 18. Anyone who is not of a legal age is never locked up in a general prison with adults.