One of the problems the prisoners face coming out of prison is finding employment. Lets just think about this for a few minutes. What is usually one of the first main questions on a job application? Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor? These are the words that ex-convicts fear and heres why.
Jails are used in the beginning of the criminal justice process to house suspects that are arrested for crimes. Depending on the suspect and the crime, the jail may be a temporary placement or
However, the implementation of; Prison improvement program has made it possible for prison to preserve the basic human rights of inmates. A prison is a place that holds people who have been convicted, or found guilty, of serious crimes, although there are a number of reasons why we use imprisonment. Customary we use prison to deter those who commit crime, and also to serve as a punishment for those who commit crime. Nonetheless we also use prison to reform people in order to get them ready for reintroduction of society. The most important thing that we use prison for is to keep people in our society safe, and to offer protection.
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.
Most researchers conduct studies about inmate life experiences inside prison, primarily because institutional prisoners make captive audiences. An exception to this is research conducted with prisoners recently released from prison. Craig Hemmens supervised a research team that interviewed 775 former inmates as they were waiting for the bus within a few minutes to a few hours of release for prison. Hemmens (1998) found that as prisoners found that as prisoner’s age, their apprehension about reentry decreased. Less reentry apprehension also applied to prisoners who served sentences of three years or less compared with those who served sentences longer than three years.
As in everything in life there is always room that something can be changed to make it better, and the idea of rehabilitation is no different. Rehabilitation is a very useful tool utilized by the court. According to The Free Dictionary (2014), rehabilitation is the process of preparing a prisoner for a productive life upon release from prison. So what this means the prisoner receives classes and special treatment to ensure that they can live a proper life once they are given their second chance into society. The process of rehabilitation will begin in prison and will continue once the inmate is released into society.
Even DOSA (Drug Offender Sentencing Act) which says they get half time upon completion of drug counseling, most inmates are unable to complete. However, due to budget cut this leaves inmates or the state to pay for the costs which cost even more than doing it inside the institution. Recidivism, which means to recommit crime, is over 90 percent for drugs offenders even with treatment. Without treatment or education offenders are committing more crime and most of the inmates are going back to prisons. If there are more good programs that would work for these inmate and guide them throughout, each individual should have the responsibility to complete the program and earn something from it.
Does imprisonment fulfil those aims and purposes? Studies worldwide have shown that imprisonment does not work in terms of stated objectives. The stated objectives are to reform the criminal. In the majority of cases, the prison population is largely made up of re offenders. Donna King (Smart Justice) described her experience in jail as “Each prison sentence I went through, my crimes got bigger.
The treatment of women and men that are inmates to the state’s prison are treated in many different ways. Some officers go by the rules and regulations that their state puts forth and some don’t when it comes to how to treat an inmate. This report will discuss the ethical issues/treatment of prisoners from a personal view (being that I was a correctional officer for two years) and having family members as inmates. A person would believe that every jail within the same state would run their correction facilities in the same way but they actually don’t. Every ethical theory has its own unique way on looking into issues.
Recidivism is a big problem I this country, too many inmates return back to prison after being released. Many citizens are affected by this as well as the x-convicts and their families. Many children of convicts grow up without their father and could end up in prison themselves. It seems that these x-inmates have no chance to be reformed. This problem exists because there are not enough programs to help inmates be reformed and the little programs that are available they are implemented only after the inmate is released and not in the prison itself.