...seven days after he was arrested on a bench warrant for a traffic violation that he previously paid. Florence filed a lawsuit against the Burlington County Correctional System challenging that the search was unreasonable because he was being held for failure to pay a fine for a traffic violation, which is a minor offense in minor offense in the city of New Jersey. [1] Procedural History: In 2003, a bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Albert Florence (Plaintiff) due to his failure to pay a fine executed after a previous conviction for a minor traffic violation in New Jersey. Florence paid the fine, but the warrant was not removed from the statewide database. Approximately two years later Florence was arrested and transported to the Burlington County Detention Center. Burlington County Detention Center policy and procedures require that the Correctional Officers have a close visual inspection (strip search) of every new inmate entering the...
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...……………………………………..iii Facility Overview……....…………….……………………………………………...……….......iv Current Crime Prevention and Security Measures in Place............................................................iv Physical Limitations.…………………………..…………….…………………………………….v Optional Physical Security………..………………........................................................................vi Information and Records Security………..………........................................................................vi Emergency and Response Planning...............................................................................................vii OSHA Standards and Violaton….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Hiring Practices……………...….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Legal Issues…..……………...….…………………………………………….……………..……ix Conclusion……………...….…………………………………………….……………..………...ix References…………………………………………………………………….……………..…….x Introduction The purpose of this paper is to design a security plan for the Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center (MPSETC) that, at a minimum, identifies the facility assets requiring protection, the criticality of those assets, the various threats directed at the assets and the probability of loss. Through my research, I will identify various problems and offer possible solutions to those listed issues. Facility Overview ...
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...employees in a company or organization to be resistant to change. Doing something that is different or uncommon for any individual may cause resistance because it is unknown. This is why how change is implemented matters and how management handles the implementation is relevant to the success of the change. This paper will focus on strategies for implementing change in a Correctional facility as it related to inmate access to healthcare. The paper will describe different assessments and evaluations used to monitor the process of inmate healthcare access. Community techniques and resources will also be defined in this paper, along with additional organizational resources relative to the process, systems, personal, and professionals roles in the organization. Strategies for Changing Inmate Access to Healthcare Access to health care in the correctional institutions in Maryland are limited. Especially in the pretrial divisions of the correctional facilities there are not many opportunities or resources for inmates to receive health care other than the initial pre-screening check-up upon entering a correctional facility. Strategies have to be put in place to open up opportunities and free up resources to change the way inmates have access to health care. One strategy is for...
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...Dissimilar to most occupations, entering into a law enforcement officer position (i.e. police, corrections or probation officers) includes much more than finishing an application and interview. Criminal justice agencies run their candidates through a thorough arrangement of tests and exams, each intended to limit the field of applicants to progress only the individuals who are qualified. Likewise with the essential necessities, every state has a Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) or comparable element that builds up minimum selection benchmarks for law enforcement officers. Perceiving that every state and every agency may contrast beneath is a summary rundown you are liable to find in the hiring and training process. The hiring process for police officers and correctional officers is pretty straightforward and very similar in nature. The beginning application and prescreening questionaries’ convey a candidate's advantage and qualifications. Given this material, applicants are welcomed back to take the composed exam. The written exam encompasses a general aptitude exam consisting of reading comprehension, problem-solving skills, memory and writing ability. Many agencies offer their applicants a study guide that provides some assistance to applicants prior to taking the exam. Once the review is...
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...not only in the state of Alabama but throughout the U.S especially within the state prisons. The NAAL (1994) reported that 75% of all prison inmates are deficient in various literacy and basic skills on the 12th grade level. In a subsequent report of the survey 10 years later, the NAAL reported only a small significant increase in literacy levels (NAAL, 2007). Adult education program are an integral part of the rehabilitation process in inmate sentencing. Adult education programs provide a prisoner with the means to seek an education and learn skills that he or she may not have learned before being incarcerated. Programs of the importance in many facilities include GED, literacy/ basic skills programs, and vocational training courses. In the state of Alabama, there are a staggering number of men and women in the state facilities that do not have a high school diploma or above basic literacy skills. The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC, 2008) reports that 9,040 inmates were enrolled in adult basic education programs 80% earned their GED; 9,967 were enrolled in vocational education; and...
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...INTRODUCTION With all of the money taxpayers spend on correctional facilities around the country, one would think the inmates would be living in a five-star palace. Since prisons are blocked off from the public with high security and complete isolation, the gruesome conditions are left solely for the inmates to face, particularly women. Unsanitary, unbearable circumstances in women’s correctional facilities today remain something that unfortunately the public is unaware of. Whether for something minor, such as disorderly behavior, or major, such as manslaughter, the females are all under the same roof. Sexually transmitted diseases, rodents, overcrowded cells, and sewage overflows make women’s correctional facilities anything but lady-like...
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...was subject to a strip search. He remained there for six days and then was transferred to the Essex county facility where he was subjected to another strip search and a visual body cavity search. Florence contends that these searches violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment since he was arrested for a minor offense. Procedural History: In 1998, Albert Florence was arrested for fleeing from police officers in Essex County and was charged with obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon. He took a plea deal where he pleaded guilty and his charges where reduced to two lesser offenses. He was sentenced to pay a fine in monthly installments but he failed to keep up with the monthly payments. Not only did he fall behind in his monthly payments but he also failed to appear at an enforcement hearing in which caused him to have a warrant issued for his arrest. Florence paid for the outstanding balance but the warrant was never updated and remained in the database. A state trooper stopped Florence in New Jersey and arrested him after he checked the statewide computer database system and found a bench warrant for his arrest. At the detention center, he was required to shower with a delousing agent and was checked for scars, marks, gang tattoos and contraband, as he was undressed. After being there for six days, he was transferred to the Essex County Correctional Facility where he was once again searched for...
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...criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts. The criminal justice system is made up of three sections: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (jails, prisons, probation and parole) (Ariestechsoft, 2013). In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of persons who have been convicted of crimes (Carson & Sabol, 2012) . These functions commonly include imprisonment, parole and probation. In this paper, the writer will evaluate past, present, and future trends of corrections. Discuss the budgetary and managerial impact that future trends will likely have not only on corrections, but also the other components of the criminal justice system. Evaluate In the past corrections used to be vastly different than it is today. Corrections were merely just a place to store individuals who have broken the laws of the land. This place had no regard to the age, sex, or the nature of the law broken. The corrections facility could be considered a cave like area dug out with a cage on top. In the captivity there were murders housed with shoplifters and rapist. There were also children housed with adults. There were no orders as to how the individuals would be treated. This simply means that the individuals that are held in captivity had no rights and...
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...Many inmates come from areas where they do not have the same opportunities as higher social classes do in order to achieve in life. These inmates usually come from deteriorating neighborhoods and broken homes. Many do not have the guidance from both mom and dad in order to help them walk down the right path. As a society we should take it upon ourselves to reform the non-violent inmates, and help them down the right path. The cost savings that these programs provide federal and state correctional facility budgets, can be diverted and used to fund better education, and proper maintenance of deteriorating neighborhood. Reforming inmates in our Florida correctional facilities into productive members of society is the ultimate goal. I am an advocate for the use of prison based programs in Florida correctional facilities and nation wide as well, but I believe these programs should be reserved for non-violent criminal offenders, who have not committed serious felony crimes. In my opinion I believe criminals who commit heinous, serious felony crimes such as rape and first-degree murder, and mass murder (amongst other serious violent crimes) should be given the death penalty, no other alternative (no jail time or rehabilitation). But this is a...
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...retribution, and rehabilitation or reformation. Some have argued that public prisons are better at all of the above while most support private prisons. The term prison privatization commonly refers to the policy of contracting out the management and operation of prisons and jails to private, for-profit companies. Prison privatization is a controversial issue, with ongoing debate over the ethics of delegating the punishment function of the criminal justice system to private actors, weather private prisons cost less to operate than public facilities, and if the quality of security and conditions of confinement differ between public and private prisons. In 2005, approximately 200 private correctional facilities operated in the United States, housing a total of 107,000 inmates. Four companies provide more than 90 percent of private prison capacity. About 6 percent of all state inmates and 14 percent of federal inmates are incarcerated in privatized facilities. The idea of privatizing prisons emerged in the 1980s as a policy remedy to the problem of growing incarceration rates, severe prison overcrowding, and constraints on increasing government funding of new prison space. Public investment in new prisons climbed eightfold from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, but was at or approaching its limits in many jurisdictions due to voter rejection of construction bonds, statutory ceilings on state debt, or general taxpayer unwillingness to support increases in government spending. With privatization...
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...Psychological Association convention, the involvement of psychologists in filing amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on issues relevant to psychology and law, and the presentation of a regular workshop series in clinical-forensic psychology by the American Academy of Forensic Psychology("Careers in Psychology," 2016). Salary Even in university and other interdisciplinary settings, however, there is growing pressure on psychologists to generate sources of salary support to repay the department or school. Psychologists entering correctional settings will find striking differences between different systems. The median annual salary in the Federal prison system was $40,900 in 2002.Salaries are likely to be slightly lower in a state correctional facility or local jail, although there can be a wide range of salary levels("Careers in Psychology," 2016). There may also be discrepancies according to the level of training; some correctional facilities will seek to hire masters-level psychologists at salaries that may begin between $25,000 - $30,000 rather than doctoral-level psychologists, to whom they might be expected to pay about $10,000 more. Currently, a starting salary for a doctoral-level...
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...Comparison of Jails and Prisons Jail is usually the first place a criminals go once arrested by law enforcement. “Jails hold only about one-tenth of all offenders under correctional supervision, yet admit approximately four times as many offenders each year as all other correctional components combined” (, ). Jails intentions are to protect the public and citizens of each county by housing criminals and keep them off the streets. Majority of people cannot tell the difference when people say a criminal goes to jail when in reality he should be going to prison. There is confusion with serving time in jails and prisons. Jails are local operational correctional facilities that detain accused criminals before or after a judgment or verdict (Seiter, R., 2011). Jails usually house these criminals for no more than a year. The difference between jails and prisons is that jails are for short sentences oppose to prisons were criminals usually are incarcerated for longer periods. “The average length of stay for a jail is fifteen to twenty days, much less than the average thirty-six month length of stay within a prison”( Seiter, R., 2011p.78 p.2). Sheriffs usually operate the county jails in the different counties of each state and serve as holding of inmates before sentenced. When criminals arrested, get to the jail they will get booked, wait until they receive their sentence or bail out of jail, and await trial. Those criminals that cannot afford to post bail usually stay in...
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...Jails and Prisons First Last CJA234 Month 00, 20XX First Last Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons often seem like the same type of punishment if you do not know more about them and their differences. Jails have always played an important role in our criminal justice system dating back to the Colonial period. Prisons are used to contain criminals who have already been proven guilty and are going to be sentenced to more than at least a one-year sentence. Much like the differences between jails and prisons there are also differences between federal prisons and state prisons depending on the crime committed determines which they are located. Jails are not always a permanent punishment for offenders, sometimes containing inmates who will just be there temporarily while waiting for other arrangements or protective custody. In todays society we are also facing issues where we do not have enough space and money to be able to contain inmates going through our jail and prison systems. Jails have been used throughout history as a way of punishing not only guilty, but the accused and even to protect those who have not committed any crime what so ever. Jails have always been a local form of the criminal justice department rather than being part of the federal system. They are maintained and protected by the local sheriff department where they are located. Not everyone you would see in a jail is a criminal or an accused criminal; sometimes you may have a witness or someone who is receiving...
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...Mentally Ill and Handicapped in Corrections "Corrections is the variety of programs, services, facilities, and organizations responsible for the management of individuals who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses" (pg 8). The goals of corrections are fair punishment and community protection. These goals not only define the purpose of corrections but also serve as the criteria by which we evaluate correctional work. "Corrections can be viewed as a series of processes: sentencing, classification, supervision, programming, and revocation" (Clear, Cole, & Reisig, pg. 9). While criminals are being processed, the correctional agencies have to deal with the pressure of public opinion, fiscal constraints, and the law. This may lead to actions not seen best suited for achieving fairness or public protection. "The American corrections system today employs over seven hundred thousand administrators, psychologists, officers, counselors, social workers, and others. The federal government, the 50 states, over three thousand counties, and uncounted municipalities and public and private organizations administer corrections at an average annual cost of over $60 billion" (Clear, Cole, & Reisig, pg.13). Corrections contain many subunits, each have their own functions and responsibilities. These subunits are probation officers, halfway houses, prisons, and others. Theses subunits vary in size, goals, clientele, and organizational structure.They are either administered in institutions...
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...I interviewed correctional officer Brian Sanchez from City Of New York Police Department 67 precinct. He began his career in the 67th precinct as a patrolman in 1989. In 1994, Brian was promoted to chief of police. Brian has his bachelors of science in criminal justice from John Jay College for Criminal Justice (University) and a masters of science in forensics from the same school. Since his time working as police officer, he also did numerous of volunteer work and some classroom instructions. In 2003, Brian later switched his mindset and became a correctional officer. As much as he loved being a patrolman and working as a police officer, Brian said he couldn't hide his passion to help inmates. Growing up he was also told to be a policeman because his mother wanted him to follow in his father’s footsteps. He didn’t choose the job because he wanted to please his mom; he did it because it’s what’s inside him to do. He's been working as a correctional officer for approximately eight years and says that he loves his job and he never gets stressed a day in his life. His passion didn’t come easy, but it came with hard work. He had to go through series of classes and training. There were days when he felt defeated but he kept going. He now uses what he was thought as well as his knowledge to help others make a better change for their lives. I was surprised at the smiles he had during the interview. I have never seen someone so profoundly happy about his or her career. It's like the...
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