Federal Prison Comparison Rev. Wesley Crawford Criminal Justice Administration/234 November 12‚ 2011 Professor Jeff Newsome Federal Prison Comparison Paper In society today there are more criminals in the boundaries of the state prison system than there are in the federal prison system. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics (2009) the United States state prison system has 1‚405‚622 within their jurisdiction;
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rights. What happened when those rights are violated? Who does a criminal have to turn to? Or even who will believe them? Inmate on inmate victimization is not uncommon especially in physical abuse‚ but what about the sexual abuse? And what about when it is not just inmate on inmate victimization‚ what if it is guard on inmate victimization? This is not right‚ not only are most inmates stripped down to their basic rights; there are some that are even having those torn away from them as well. These are
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Unit #7 1. Describe the two theories regarding how inmate culture becomes a part of prison life. Two theories of how culture became a part of prison life was one indigenous‚ because it develops as a result of the environment in which inmates find themselves according to Clemmer. Also Sykes believed that it was the deprivations and loss of freedom due to being locked up. The second theory was that the culture is imported within the inmate’s values from the outside. This created a subculture of convicts
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inmate’s tendency to violate prison rules. However‚ the model that I believe that seems to make the most logical sense is the deprivation model. Deprivation theory suggests that inmate socialization was a specific response to the losses suffered while an individual was imprisoned (Sykes‚ 1958). In other words‚ it argues that prison life in general was degrading and can be so stigmatizing that inmates tend to act out aggressively towards staff and other inmates or by violating prison rules in order to cope
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Inmate classification‚ as soon as the person is convicted of a crime‚ he is sent to the level of a prison accordingly with respect to his crime. The nature of a crime determines the level of a prison‚ if a person committed a more violent crime; it is likely that he would be sent to a more secured level of a prison. There are four levels of prisons‚ minimum‚ medium‚ close and maximum. However‚ I would like to just discuss minimum and medium level. Minimum - Minimum security prison consists of dormitories
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A dirty prison cell‚ which could arguably be considered cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners. Picture taken from mirror.co.uk. Do Inmates Have More Rights Than We Think? Story by: Michael Mosier Inmates all across the country have multiple rights such as the right to hot meals every day and the right to shelter. This could be deemed common sense. They also have their Miranda Rights read to them upon being arrested. But‚ do prisoners have more rights that what we believe? The answer
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The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions. The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed
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In recent years‚ jail has become a hot topic in the media. With shows such as Orange is The New Black‚ Prison Break‚ and Lockup‚ for the first time‚ we can better understand the lives of people in jail. Not only can we view the workings of every-day life in jail‚ but we can further understand the reasons for them being placed there. It creates empathy towards people in jail and portrays their real experiences. One could say that it almost humanizes them‚ which presents the question of whether
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Inmates with Special Needs Sarah Berry CJA/234 November 25‚ 2013 Richard Gilbert Inmates with Special Needs Inmate with special needs‚ mental illnesses‚ substance-abuse issues‚ juvenile offenders‚ and older inmates are all considered special offenders upon entering the correctional facility and classification process. These inmates are classified as special offenders‚ which refers to inmates with behavioral issues that will need close supervision‚ specific treatment plans‚ and
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Jail and Prison History of Prisons During this course we have learned a lot about America has grown and changed over the past few hundred years. We started back in the 1780’s were punishments focused on public humiliation‚ workhouses‚ and corporal punishments‚ then in colonial times (1790s) we began to institute more humane practices that included incarceration. In 1825 we entered the mass prison era‚ prisons then focused on efficiency‚ communal meals‚ no eye contact‚ and other minor changes. In
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