Illinois, in particular, is suffering from overcrowded prisons quite severely. Nearly every prison in the state is overcrowded. In order to solve this increasingly serious problem, many steps must be taken to begin prison reform and to begin living in a country in which the way we punish our criminals makes more sense and is more effective than how it is today. Everyone seems to know someone that is in prison these days, whether the person has committed a serious, violent crime, or just got caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, they still end up in some sort of prison facility. In fact the U.S.’s rate of incarceration is 455 people per every 100,000 people (Smolowe, 1994).
Without such activities being available to inmates, their daily routine returns into a monogamous state resulting in boredom. Loomis, a former inmate at Alcatraz Prison, describes the effect of such a lifestyle on inmate behavior: “Life gets so monotonous you feel like bucking the rules to break the monotony,” (Oliver, 66). In addition to idleness repetition, overcrowding also increased the difficulty of imposing discipline, resulting in greater availability of drugs, flourishing gangs, and an increased threat in brutality between prisoners (The Oxford History of the Prison, 237). One of the most fundamental resources of correctional institutions, the correctional officers, are also being vastly outnumbered. The new focus of corrections and society as being “tough on crime” affects the lives in which inmates, officers, and the community must now live by.
Prior to these measures, and in other police organizations across the country, work had been gauged in terms of effort (e.g., how many 911 calls were answered). Technology helped greatly with this initiative and CompStat meetings became the new norm in monitoring
Because of this vast change, police really sought out to change the personified image of law enforcement as a collective whole (Lentz & Chaires, 2007). They really began to take on the needs of American citizens beyond just maintaining and conducting law, but now they were assisting in many areas of housing, built and supervised playgrounds for children, and even found jobs for ex-convicts. This obviously was a mammoth task law enforcement attempted to tackle, but certainly would change the initial blemished perspective of law enforcement because they were in all attempts desiring to show the people they really wanted to be of assistance not in maintaining the law but making sure people’s needs were
Allison Dettelbach Political Science 430 Professor Morton 17 April 2015 Accountability vs. Efficiency There is a constant gridlock that the United States government faces daily on an ever-expanding number of issues. This struggle of accountability versus efficiency is not only a present theme in this course, but in everyday life for public administrators. The film, Article 99, displays a perfect image of the challenge that comes with being at the mercy of bureaucrats and politicians. This movie also proves to be a good representation of real life situations veterans must deal with.
The prison industrial complex Every year more and more inmates are being locked up behind bars and eventually the prisons become over populated this is due to the prison industrial complex, fear is built up in peoples mind that all the criminals should be cleared off the street and put behind bars, however the question here is, whether that is the right solution. Statistics show that today the United States has approximately 8.1 million people behind bars. (Eric Schlosser). This shows that crime rates are significantly increasing in America and prisons are becoming full. One can argue the issue of racism in America is emphasized to be the cause for more violence and eventually more crime rates increase.
As gang violence in prisons continues there is always the chance of riots or hostage situations. The officers and staff in the correction systems need to be educated more and they need to be able to help educate the inmates as well. In the future the government needs to give more funding to the correction system in order to accommodate the inmates as well as the
Corrections Trend Evaluation CJA 394 December 12, 2012 Corrections Trend Evaluation In today’s prison system, there is often overcrowding. In order for prisoners to be treated fairly we have to make sure that the correctional facility has enough space in their jails and prisons to house all of these criminals. Also, to make sure that prisoners are treated right and that their rights are not be violated like what is happening very often in prisons and jails. In order for the corrections department to make sure all inmates receive the appropriate care they need we need to open more floors in our prisons and jails. Prisons, in late 1900’s where based on punishment.
463). Diffusion of information tends to gather additional information about the new concept and its multiple uses. There tends to be a cultural lag that happens with all social or technological advancements. Ogburn created the term "cultural lag" to describe how some things move faster based on nvention, or discovery or diffusion but that technology will usually change first without culture lagging behind. We tend to learn of the new technology and then figure out how we will choose to use it in our daily
There are many changes brought about by Martial Law after its declaration. They said “Everything changes in the direction of progress.” Some of which are the removal of the police from mayors’ jurisdiction and put them under military, armed forces strength expanded, fired nearly six thousand government employment. The police and the military were famed for their brutality. Amnesty International estimates that under the Marcos regime 10,000 were jailed, 34,000 were tortured and 3,240 were killed. This proves that Marcos have too much power that poisoned his mind and make him more greedy.