Institutional Violence In Prison

Institutional Security and Violence

Curtis B. Sanders

Introduction to Correction

C. J. 130 -October 5 - 2010

Professor Nancy Alleyne

This is just an example of what the correctional officers go through on A daily basis their hands are tied, “The
How can we keep control of the correctional facilities there are Many factors leading to violence are beyond the control of prison officials. Among them are the size of prisons and the crowding of facilities; the enforced idleness of too many inmates; inadequate financial support from the state legislature; public indifference; and the increasing number of violent and aggressive criminals, including gang members from the streets, being sentenced to prison. Furthermore, prison officials cannot alter the belief of prisoners that the only way they can gain the public’s attention and overcome public apathy is through institutional violence.
Institutional violence, which varies in seriousness and expression from state to state, may possibly be reduced by these methods: making the prison more humane, improving the quality of correctional leadership, improving the training of staff, better screening to identify the violent and vulnerable, making prison space defensible, denying recognition to inmate gangs, and incarceration in super-max prisons and high