Prison Life and Strategies to Reduce Recidivism Student’s name: Institution: Prison Life and Strategies to Reduce Recidivism Introduction All societies in the world acknowledge the fundamental role that prisons and jails play in ensuring that law breakers receive the punishment they deserve. At the same time, prisons offer the offenders an opportunity to reform and become better people in the society. In the United States, an estimated two million inmates are housed in jails and prisons of the country. Statistics indicate that a large percentage of these prisoners is comprised of people who have been imprisoned in the past, as well as, those who have not been inmates in the past. The issue of prison conditions and the impacts they have on the future lives of inmates has attracted significant interest in the American society.
The state system is more for the hard criminals that will not change and in some eye’s [Apostrophe: remove if the word is not possessive] belong there. The state and federal in some areas need help to keep budget up for them to have the security they need to keep these inmates form escaping. One solution I would like [The subjunctive is correctly used to express an habitual or conditional action but not to hedge. State it plainly--"I want"] to input would be to combine the systems to make a larger system to house all inmates under the levels; this could make room in the prisons and help with budget
The aim of the prison was to reform the prisoner through solitary confinement, religion and order. This approach was a symbolic step to civilise punishment, it was a huge development from the retributive methods of the bloody code. To evaluate the success of Pentonville, it must be measured against three factors. The first factor is the conditions for prisoners prior to Pentonville and during Pentonville. 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.
The idea behind corrections facilities is to take a criminal and rehabilitate them so that they may reenter society a better person and as one that may become a contributor to society instead of taking from society. There are a wide variety of issues that the clients in corrections might have. Many might have the same main issues but the underlying issues that cause those issues are the ones that really need the work. These are the main behavioral plans that case managers will work on
It starts off with the youth whom become adults and constantly keep returning to jail then they end up in prison. In the future corrections department need to work on ways that can help prisoners when they are released from prison on who to deal with society. Corrections need some type of program that can help and get the inmates the proper help they need to get out of jail and find jobs and how to reenter the world. But in order for the correctional officers to know how to treat inmates properly they need the proper training, so that they can make sure they are not mistreating inmates that will cause there facilities to be sued by the inmate. In the future of corrections is about reforming the inmates and getting them the most proper care that they need.
This role makes it possible for our government to continue to institutionalize citizens even after their release. This role can be viewed as an invisible hand, I see it as getting prisoners adjusted to being controlled outside the walls and to make sure they integrate successfully back into the system while stripping away their civil rights. This system enables our government to institutionalize citizens with prisons then after their release through parole and probation to effectively continue to take away civil liberties and more actively place disruptive citizens into a suppressive
For that, they need to be removed from society for the society's good. Rehabilitation should be a secondary goal. It should be the goal to give the prisoner the skills necessary to make his way on the outside without resorting to crime again. This is more than just job skills I'm talking about here. There should be skills taught on resolving conflict situations, ordinary life skills, money management, etc.
Additional education such as a master’s in one of these fields would be required to advance or qualify for supervisory positions. Ongoing clinical training can take place of some education. Specialized skills such as an expertise with juveniles, drug addiction and violent offenders can also lead to higher paying positions. Work experience such as a substance abuse counselor or corrections caseworker may be needed for an entry level position (www.bls.gob/oco[->0], May 1, 2010). Corrections Counselor usually has an office setting, but will need to go to where inmates are housed, there outdoor atmosphere and their prison cells to get a better picture of what type of environment the inmate currently has.
The Comparison Between Prison and Slavery by John Dewar Gleissner The fairly new term, "mass incarceration," means that the U.S. has 2.2 million prisoners, more than any country in the world. A greater percentage of the U.S. population is in prison than in any other nation. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and almost 25% of the world's prisoners. The entire U.S. correctional population, including those on probation, on parole and awaiting trial, is about 7.3 million Americans. These eye-popping numbers came about for many reasons: mandatory minimum sentences, three-strikes legislation, illegal drugs, gangs, immorality in all its modern forms, the war on drugs, the decline of marriage and families, high rates of recidivism, incarceration of the mentally ill, the decline of capital punishment, problems with the criminal justice system and all the forces pushing tough crime policies.
Reasons for growth in the State Prison system part of the over population in prison has been merited to the changes in sentencing practices. The sentencing practices are part of the harsh constraints on judges and parole individuals, there are required to examine each individual case and their own special circumstances. 1980 was the large increase in incarceration; some say is based on the war on drugs and trafficking of illegal drugs to the United States. Poverty Poverty has many ways of dealing with the prison growth, there are more crime related issues than there are work, people try to get money easy and get themselves into a bigger hole. The profiling of people who have been incarcerated is one of the main reasons why most employers won’t hire an individual, therefore this people do not feel welcome in society and end up going back to prison, because they feel safer with food and