In America today, The Bureau operates the prison institutions at five different security levels in order to confine offenders in an appropriate manner. Each facility is designated as either minimum, low, medium, high, or administrative. These security levels are based on the presence of external patrols, towers and security barriers. They are also staffed to inmate ratio. These institutions may undergo population changes to accommodate the agency’s bed capacity, security level, and population management needs.
Prison Environment Shelly Collins CJS/230 5/15/2013 David Foltzer Prison Environment A prison environment is a place where inmates are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms. It is cold and unfeeling place to be. There are many levels of conflict and tension. The prison environment influences the institutional management and custody by the growing population and the gangs within the facility. Overcrowding aggravates the natural conflicts that rely within the prison walls which then escalate violence.
This was the prison system in the 1700’s. Prisoners were punished by beheading, hung, whipped, and stoned. In the late 1700’s, Benjamin Henry Latrobe built the Walnut Street Jail it was used to reform prisoners instead of harsh punishment (Goodban, 2006). Prisoners received the bare necessities to sit, sleep, and eat were their only luxuries. When the death penalty was no more the jail suffered overcrowding which led to riots, escapes, and prison guards were attacked.
The threat of prison gangs Usually prison inmates join these gangs in order to protect themselves from other gangs and also to ensure some form of protection from the harsh conditions in prison. These conditions are usually wide ranging. Prison gangs have had a major impact on prisons in the United States, however, some states are more notorious for prison gangs. These states are as follows: California, Arizona, Texas and Florida. Over the years prison gangs have grown and spread throughout many of the states in the US.
This paper will discuss four different types of prisons, the concept of prison as a total institution, it explains how jails play an important role in criminal justice, identifies some community based programs associated with jails and prisons, some violent behaviors of inmates and how they can be minimized, the concept of parole and the conditions that must be met, and the meaning of truth in sentencing. This paper provides information on four different prison systems: federal, state jails, and private correctional facilities. The paper starts out discussing federal prisons which are funded through the government to house inmates who commit felonies. The federal prisons consist of five different security levels: minimum, low, medium, high, or administrative. The security levels are based on presence of external patrol, towers, security barriers, or detection devices.
Jails were now used to displace people like the poor or the mentally ill. These early jails were in horrible condition they were filled with filth, violence, little medical care, and poor food. In 1773 John Howard who was the new sheriff of Bedfordshire was doing inspections of the local jails found lack of discipline, inmates with diseases, filth, and lack of sanitation. He did not like what he had seen so he worked with members of the English House of Commons to Draft the Penitentiary Act of 1779. This act had four requirements for English prisons and jails.
Federal Prison Comparison: Introduction The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been changing over the years. With these new changes new levels of security have been implemented within facilities all over the nation. This paper will talk about different kinds of correctional facilities that famous and infamous people have been sentenced to them. The Federal prison system has come a long way since it was the Eastern State Penitentiary. These were times that inmates had to cover their heads with hoods while they were being moved and they had to be in solitary confinement during their court ordered sentenced.
Prison is a form of punishment given to convicted criminals for crimes committed. So why do officials allow the forming of prison gangs in our prisons? The origin of prison gangs and the factors that keep them alive behind the walls of every prison in the country is by the recruitment of new inmates. In the United States we have six major gangs that have formed behind the walls of our penitentiaries. identified.
When offenders are sentenced to the department of corrections, in most states they are transported to a classification facility for an assesment and to be processed for the offenders needs. Security levels are an issue with imprissonment. Individuals will recieve a security level to decide the type of prison to be introduced to--depending on the crime commited. There is a range of security levels from minimum to supermaximum security facilities. the offender is then assignened a custody level when introduced to the prison to show the prcuastion that needs to be taken while working with them.
Jail and Prisons Comparison This paper will provide a description of a jail's place in corrections and its role throughout history. A summary of the history of state and federal prisons and a comparison of the similarities and differences between security levels in jails will also be included. This paper will also explain some influencing factors of growth in jails, state prisons, and federal prisons. In the early days jails were used to detain offenders awaiting trial, but during the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, jails were also used to house displaced persons, the poor, and occasionally the mentally ill (Seiter, 2011). Often times a punishment for a crime would consist of a fine and if offenders could not pay the fine they remained detained until they worked a sufficient amount time that would be comparable to the debt they owed.