...Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper By SARAH 2/16/2015 There are several differences between jails and prisons. Some people today, do not know what these differences are because they are unaware of how procedures work on the inside. Those who do know how prison and jails are related have been acquainted with this type of atmosphere or have played a role in being locked up. This paper is designed to show those who do not know how prison and jails work on a daily basis. . Jails are the first place most criminals go when they commit a crime. Officers are required to place suspected criminals into the back of their cars with handcuffs attached to their wrist. Transferring suspected criminals can be a hassle for some law enforcement officials because of how these criminals act in most cases. Once they are transferred, they are booked, finger printed and are placed into a holding facility. Seiter (2011), states that the normal stay in US jails is around 15-20 days, but some may stay longer based on their circumstance. Seiter(2011) also states jails are correctional facilities that are used in keeping offenders before they can be judged in a court of law as the suspect awaits verdict. Depending on their crime, suspects are held without bail or with bail before being placed before a judge. Others have to wait a certain amount of hours before leaving if they are placed in jail because of dui or dwi. When going before a judge, criminals who are convicted will either go...
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...Miranda Armenta 1.12.17 Per. 3 Rehabilitation works better than incarceration The juvenile criminal system has changed a lot throughout the years. The system then went from trying to help inmates and probationers get their life back on track now to an alarming punitive system. Rehabilitation increases the chances of turning a juvenile's life around rather than punishing them with jail time. Studies have even proven that rehabilitation services for young juveniles have a bigger impact than punishment. This system lacks the nurturing aspect of rehabilitation to help truly good people out of a bad place. It's gotten harder and harder to keep rehabilitation in and out of jails. Most jails don't even have enough professional mental evaluation...
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...Arla R. Payne Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice Stockholders for Allegheny County Jail Positive and Negative Points October 20 2011 In order to manage the Allegheny County Jail the government must contract with private firms and by doing so will save a lot of money over government cost. It is noted that all most 10 -15 percent could be save or cut down by using a private firm compared to government cost. (The H. John Heinz lll School of Public Policy and Management pg.38) The jail administration must stop and look at the whole picture, if you are looking to improve the jails services, perfection and merit’s, the private sector is the right direction to go. Most private firms are looking at ways to cut out foolish purchases and unnecessary overtime. Benefit packages are workable and may not have the superbness of other companies but, you will be covered. Bids are so important in the decision making process and the strategy used to get the job must be well planned. You must recognize what a bid is and how you should begin to solicit for the best ones. A bid is simply an offer made to perform services needed for a certain agency or facility; management must be wise and aware of what they want, and who to use to accomplish it. Pennsylvania has hired or used the bid given by Prime Care Medical, Inc. There are many positives affects to the private management firms as well as negative ones, all aspects of the firms must be weighted and discussed and the right decision should...
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...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 jail and...
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...How you ever heard of Amendment 8? If not,you might find out about it if you read this essay.The purpose of this essay is to tell you more about the amendment that I have, which Is the eighth Amendment. The words of the Amendment are “Excessive bail shall not be required,nor excessive fines imposed,nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” It is about safeguarding Americans against excessive punishments. If the eighth amendment did not exist... it would affect the U.S. by things like people would not be able to get out of jail,people doing cruel and unusual punishments happening. People who would want to get out of minor crimes,they wouldn’t be able to. And also people might suffer more than they deserve, or there would be more people who would want freedom of not being in jail but they probably won’t get it. The people in the U.S. might be more cruel to one another with money or with other things.If the eighth amendment didn’t exist there might be changes with the rules or laws in different places like jails,courts,and maybe other ones....
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...to jail without proper evidence which took three years from his life. The author addresses the problem of wrongful convictions in the United States where innocent people can be blamed for crimes they did not commit. Timothy W. Ryback illustrates the story of Kalief Browder, who was returning home from a party with his friend. As they passed East 186th street, they saw a police car approaching them. The officer told them to get out from the car and searched the vehicle because a man reported that he was robbed by them. Even though...
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...conditions within detainment facilities likewise to set up a more helpful punitive framework or actualize helper to detainment; helps the detainees to get ready better for their second life after their time serving in jail. At the NAACP's 106th national tradition, on July 15, 2015; Mr. President Obama recorded a bundle of reasons that the United States ought to change the criminal equity framework. What's more, a few reasons that the legislature will look more into the American groups and attempt to give more open door and more rights to every one of the general population in the country. President Obama has officially investigating the circumstance. The quantities of steps are “signing the Fair...
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...judicial system is supposed to help people stop doing what they are doing, but in many cases when someone is sent to jail, upon getting out they will be in worse shape than before. Instead of helping a person at their lowest point, society throws them in a cell to think about their actions for decades at a time. We never know the actual story of who these people are that are behind bars until someone like Christopher O’Connor tells us his personal experiences, and we get an inside look on what we are doing to the people who need us most. O’Connor wrote “The Inmate I Can’t Forget,” published in December of 2015 in the Salon. In the article he argues not all inmates are “dregs of society,” and not everything on television shows such as “America's Most Wanted”, “Cops” and even...
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...Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper Marcus Alexander CJA/234 Introduction to Corrections June 23, 2014 Sherri Webster Jail and Prisons Comparison In the U.S. criminal justice system, when a person is arrested, the first place they are usually taken to is jail. From there, they see a judge and go through a court process. If further incarceration is needed, the individual is sentenced to serve time in either a county jail, state prison or federal prison. This paper will help discuss the history behind the jails and their use in addition to the history of state and federal prisons. While understanding the history of these three correctional facilities it will help to compare the different levels of security and how they work differently in each facility. A major problem in the United States, regarding the corrections system, is overcrowding. The effects of overcrowding are visible throughout the criminal justice system and there are different factors that influence the growth of jail/prison incarceration. The jails of the modern era can be traced back to the 1100’s in England. The first jail created was ordered built by King Henry II in 1166, and the English term gaol was used in place of the word jail (Seiter, 2011). Jails then were also used, as they are now, for the purpose of housing offenders that were waiting for trial, but also took in individuals who were homeless, poor or suffered from mental disabilities. Individuals that are incarcerated in...
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...I was wondering around cold and scared. I saw people on my team being chased, hiding, and trying to figure out who to trust. Then, out of nowhere some guy ran toward me. “Ah!” I screamed as I tried to escape. Hold up, let me rewind a bit. The day started out like any normal day. I went to school, played volleyball, and then went to LOL: Live Out Loud, my church group. When game time came around the leaders told us we were going to play Romans and Christians, a game I had not played up to that point. The leaders then led us boys to the other side of the church, and told us that since it was Friday we could play on the whole side. On the walk there my friend Kyle taught me how to play. “Okay,” he said,”There are two teams Romans and...
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... Well armed robbery is where someone takes money from someone using a weapon to get it. The sentencing for armed robbery depends on your age and if you are a repeat offender. Lets say if you are 15 you can be held in a juvenile detention center until you are 21yrs of age. It also has to do with the severity of the crime that the person commits. Around the age of 16-18 they can be charged as adults because they are old enough to understand the consequences of their actions. The jail time for these offenders can be from a couple of months to ten years, depending to the severity of the crime and of their age as well. I believe that armed robbery has dropped in the criminal world, due to the fact that stores and places have camera's that see everything. There are alarms that alert people when something isn't right and they can take care of it and it will scare people off and that usually stops them from finishing the job. The objective of the bill is to make sure the offender pays for the crimes that they committed. It makes sure that they serve the time they are responsible for, without getting released early from jail. They hope doing so will show the offender that they mean business and that they hope they will not do it again. The goals of this bill is to teach offenders a lesson in what they did and how wrong it is to keep doing so. I also think they are trying to show society that are make that one step closer to making the offenders...
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...adults? Can juveniles really learn from their crime? What if the juveniles make the court believe that they learned from their mistake and they got out of jail and commit the same crime but worse. Is it really cruel and unusual to sentence life without parole to juveniles? Juveniles that commit extremely bad crimes should not be punished; who in their right mind thinks they should not be punished? Is life in prison with or without parole a better option for juveniles? It all comes down to what the juvenile did, and if the juvenile and the adult made the same mistake, they should get the same punishment. It should always be fair between adults and juveniles; there is no difference because they made the same mistake, a crime is a crime. To begin with, can juveniles really learn from their mistakes? Some juveniles can and others can't. Well how will the court make the right decision? For example a juvenile gains trust from the court and gets out of jail early but when they exactly get out of jail they go to a party and kill someone. It is the juveniles responsibility to not get in trouble because they have to be role models for the next generation of juveniles and be the adults. Juveniles can learn from their mistakes but there are always the juveniles that lose the opportunity of being out of jail by committing another crime when out jail. Why do the crime if you don't want to do the time? No one makes someone to harm anybody its themselves who do. Why do people think that equal...
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...Will McAbee Narrative Paragraph “Jail” Today I am going to tell you about the time a young fellow, like myself went to jail. Their were two kids, one named Will (obviously not me) and one Hart and they were driving home from a raging party but the problem was that their left headlight was out when they entered the “cop-invested” island called Isle Of Palms. Two minutes after entering the Isle Of Palms, the two boys get pulled over by a IOP Police officer. The officer thought that Will’s car was sketchy for its dark tint, so the officer called for another officer. Before Will or Hart could even think, there was a knock on both the driver’s and passenger side windows. Within 2 minutes the ignorant police officers could already tell the boys were under the influence of alcohol, then the officers asked the boys “ Will you please step out of the car.” They both got out and started getting questioned. Will never seemed to get the first question right. The officer ‘s question was “ what’s your name” and Will proceeded to lie 4 different times, saying 4 different names. The officers then placed both boys under arrest for being under the influence/possession of alcohol. Willingly and without resisting, Hart was placed in hand cuffs and put in the back of the cop car, however the belligerent Will was “swaying,” which in the police officer’s mind means that he was resisting; so they decided to tackle him. Will shouted “ I’m not resisting” and the officer placed him in hand cuffs and...
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...Final research paper on “Education vs. Prison Funding” The government is responsible for security of its citizens and it is also responsible to provide a safe socio-economic environment to its people, and in this context; Jails and schools are two important institutions of any society, which need regular monetary support from the government. Thus government has to be very careful in allocating funds to both of the institutions; as one punishes the convicts and other makes the people skillful, and wise enough to get a job and earn money for family. Government has to be very careful in allocation of funds to them, as it is very critical to decide which institution should be allocated more money. The report, “Prison Spending Affecting Higher Education in California” states that in 2008 one of every 48 adults was in jail; this data states the very reason that why prisons are getting so much funding against education. We need to take very stringent and effective steps to reduce the population of prisons. The article, “Education and Public Safety (2007)” mentions that the lack of proper education is directly proportional to increase in prison population; the fact that most criminals are from some particular areas, where the high school dropout is maximum, proves this theorem. It is dangerous for the future of the society that the education in lack of subsidy and proper funding is becoming unaffordable for more and more students. The prison data shows that around 50 percent population...
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...Have you ever heard of the punishment of banishment or jail? Some people argue about which is better as a punishment. In this paper, information about why jail is a good punishment will be given. Jail is better than island banishment because jail can help in many ways and if island banishment is given to someone, they could get assaulted, like Cole Mathews from “Touching Spirit Bear”. Cole Mathews got mauled by a bear. Jail is very beneficial in many ways. First of all, when a criminal is caught for murder, robbery, or other reasons, if the criminal is not put into jail or custody, the chance of the criminal repeating the same crime is increased. (Mayglothling). Next, if you go to prison you can work out and get fit. Therefore, if you are...
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