Jail And Prison: The Middlesex House Of Corrections
Jail and Prison Paper
Kerri-Ann Pimentel
CJA/204
September 29, 2014
Erica Veljic
Jail and Prison Paper The United States has approximately four types of penitentiaries. These correctional facilities are: Juvenile, federal prison, county jail and state prison. Generally, county jails are regarded as a facility that remands convicts for a moment before they are transferred to a penitentiary. In addition, county jails are used to detain convicts who have been imprisoned and have a prison term of less than two and a half years. This paper looks at the comparison between Middlesex House of Correction jail and a maximum security prison called Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. The Middlesex House of Corrections was constructed …show more content…
These are programs that are overseen to deal with persons who have been sentenced either in jail or prisons, or are facing sentence. Parole and probation are commonly the way of community correction programs. Others include home confinement, community service, day fine programs among others. Jail and prison have an effect on an individual’s psychology and can cause negative toll on the inmate’s self-esteem which ultimately leads to insouciance in a normal life. These programs help in solving the problem of congestion in jails and prisons (Ezine, 2006). They as well yield positive results in terms of the offender eventually realizes his or her mistake and accepts it thus helping other offenders as well as themselves to learn from their …show more content…
What is the difference between these two terms? Probation is a situation where the court places offenders under observation in the community. Parole refers to convictional offenders who are released from a penitentiary on conditions to complete the remaining part of their prison term in the community. The role of probation and parole is to involve other stakeholders such as families, employers as well program service providers in helping to offenders to avoid the offences they had committed earlier. Parole and probation help officers to manage caseloads of adults as well as juvenile convicts. These officers are in charge of assessing every criminal’s dangers as well as essentials in order to cultivate personal plans aimed to deal with their criminal conduct. The role of probation is not only to the offenders but also officers as
Kerri-Ann Pimentel
CJA/204
September 29, 2014
Erica Veljic
Jail and Prison Paper The United States has approximately four types of penitentiaries. These correctional facilities are: Juvenile, federal prison, county jail and state prison. Generally, county jails are regarded as a facility that remands convicts for a moment before they are transferred to a penitentiary. In addition, county jails are used to detain convicts who have been imprisoned and have a prison term of less than two and a half years. This paper looks at the comparison between Middlesex House of Correction jail and a maximum security prison called Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. The Middlesex House of Corrections was constructed …show more content…
These are programs that are overseen to deal with persons who have been sentenced either in jail or prisons, or are facing sentence. Parole and probation are commonly the way of community correction programs. Others include home confinement, community service, day fine programs among others. Jail and prison have an effect on an individual’s psychology and can cause negative toll on the inmate’s self-esteem which ultimately leads to insouciance in a normal life. These programs help in solving the problem of congestion in jails and prisons (Ezine, 2006). They as well yield positive results in terms of the offender eventually realizes his or her mistake and accepts it thus helping other offenders as well as themselves to learn from their …show more content…
What is the difference between these two terms? Probation is a situation where the court places offenders under observation in the community. Parole refers to convictional offenders who are released from a penitentiary on conditions to complete the remaining part of their prison term in the community. The role of probation and parole is to involve other stakeholders such as families, employers as well program service providers in helping to offenders to avoid the offences they had committed earlier. Parole and probation help officers to manage caseloads of adults as well as juvenile convicts. These officers are in charge of assessing every criminal’s dangers as well as essentials in order to cultivate personal plans aimed to deal with their criminal conduct. The role of probation is not only to the offenders but also officers as