Some inmates have taken the opportunity of working while incarcerated to earn wages to help provide for their families during this period of incarceration. Some prisons allow incarcerated individual to work in exchange for reduced time on their sentence. Prisoner are allowed to work outside of the prison ground in the public which brings about some concerns because of the prison guard is carrying a weapon while the prisoners are working in the community to help maintain the upkeep of the community. Prison labor has been a part of the legal system for years and it still has pros and cons but overall the important issues like safety and maintaining humane working conditions have been
As long the program concentrate on making sure the offender continue to work upon their rehabilitation and work upon become activate member of society it will work, even when the community may not appreciate having re-form convicts living in proximity of their families. In order for probation and community correction programs to continue they must make sure they evolve with the times. The programs should focus to make sure that the convicts are getting the most up-to-date rehabilitation that will help them focus on behavior issues and improvement, abilities such as skills, education, and so forth to further aid them with the reintegration back into society as a activate and productive member. I feel education and corruptive job programs which will take on hiring convicts. If we focus on these we can keep the convicts from relapse into their old ways, and truly be successful in community programs and rehabilitation.
Families also play a large role in the reentry process for formal prisoners after their release, many of them relied on their families for emotional and financial support. Family support was the most frequently cited reason why men believed they had been able to stay out of prison. As evidence of the protective nature of family relationships, having a helpful family increased the likelihood of employment and close attachment to children decreased the likelihood of substance use or the
Some jails already have work for the inmates to do, but more jails should have jobs for the inmates. Some inmates have families that they would like to take care of while they are incarcerated, a job will help them in helping their families. The various problems in jail are medical issues, riots, gangs, and financial problems. It is hard for people to collect any compassion for the two million criminals serving time in the over populated prisons and jails. Half of the prisoners in jail and prison are there
The residential community corrections traditionally was to help the inmates who were soon to be on parole reintegrate back into society, by finding jobs, saving money, getting an apartment and getting clothes for the job. It has expanded by now being a direct-sentencing option that judges can give to certain offenders who need an alternative that is between a stay in prison and traditional probation. The effectiveness of this program isn’t that great, with evaluations results that clients were more than likely to be arrested. One reason for the failure was there was an overwhelming amount of inmates were placed in the treatment which meant that many of the clients there were
Psychologist Arnez Hundley stated that the great ability that separates humans from the evolutionary background from lower level species is our ability to adapt socially and physically with our surroundings (Hundley 22). After reading this I began thinking about how humans adapt to their surroundings while being incarcerated. And when you begin to actually think about it a humans ability to adapt is his/her greatest technique as a means of survival. Take for instance an individual who has been incarcerated due to situational circumstances like defending the life of another or suffering from a brief psychotic break and has a temporary lapse in judgement and is now sent to prison for an extended period of time. Without the ability to adapt this person could not survive physically or socially in prison because they would not possess to prison house etiquette to differentiate between right or wrong prison behavior under the context in which they
Most of the inmate have to wait until their sentences is done before they are released from jail because of the nature of their crime or if they were fighting in jail to cause more time to be added to their stay in jail. Now I think that the system is set up just fine and can do its job as long as the system is not overloaded from all of the criminals release too early so as to overwhelm the probation officers. We can make the system work for the people this long I think it will keep working. Community Corrections based on the principal of relieving jails of overcrowding, and to helping the community with projects to complete in the and around the community’s. It is labor for their community and to use the criminal for the purpose to help stop recidivism.
Florida and California to this day still make license plates. The goals of the prison were to instill good work habits, reduce idleness and enable repayment to society or victim. We also saw the birth of what is called a supermax prison, where the welfare of a prisoner can easily be overlooked. Over the years institutions have attempted to rehabilitate prisoners with new skills and give them a sense of self-worth, however this has slightly been a failure. Due to the overcrowding of prison, doors have become revolving for the inmate.
“An estimated 22 percent of male blacks ages 35 to 44 have confined in federal or state prison, compared to 10 percent of male Hispanics and 3.5 percent of male whites (Peak, 2007).” According to a certain research, racism comes out at certain points of the justice system, but discrimination does not exist. The majority of minorities are all linked to some part in crime, whether in poverty, drugs, or the influences they were around. The high numbers of minorities always cause trouble for the administrators. Correctional officers go through tough problems and have certain needs in order to get their job done. Drug use in prison is one of the main problems they face.
Roughly 5% of all adult Americans suffer from a serious illness according to a 2012 report by a division of the 2012 US Department of Health and Human Services. A 2006 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that over half of all prison and jail inmates have some sort of mental health issue. An estimated 1.24 Million suffer from mental health issues which are over 4 times that number in 1998. This research indicates that mental illness is overrepresented within the criminal justice system. The current rates indicate that two to four times that of the normal