...SuperMax Prison Michele Fuentes Ms. Calais November 7, 2012 Westwood College Week 4 Assignment CJRS 121 SuperMax prisons are lacking of personnel and super security according to the article “SuperMax Prison is Super Lax, Court Case Allege” from Drew Griffin and James Polk. These high profile dangerous criminals are still able to communicate with the world and run illegal activity from prisons. This does not make sense. How can a high security institution allow this to happen? Even if they don’t know of the matter, they are still serving time in the SuperMax security, which means top of the line-supervised institute. If illegal activity is happening outside in society and the orders/shots are being called from inside the institute, then the way of monitoring and supervising the inmates needs to change to isolate them form society. Ruben “Night Owl” Castro was accused of running illegal activities form his SuperMax cell. Castro was relaying messages in various ways like coded letters, phone calls, and though his girlfriends whom will go visit him and help send out his messages. A change that can be done to prevent Castro to do this is isolate him from society. He is in a SuperMax because he broke the law and committed a serous crime. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any visitors. He is in prison to isolate him from society, that time of isolation means no visitors, letters, phone calls, nor contact with any human besides the prison guards. This should apply to an inmate...
Words: 606 - Pages: 3
...consumption. Offenders are required to wear alcohol monitoring bracelets that alerts probation officers if the offender has consumed alcohol. Probation officers are also able to use mobile automated fingerprinting systems to help monitor offenders. This technology allows officers to identify individuals and match fingerprints taken anywhere in the field with the offenders mug shots that are already on file. Many probation departments use databases and standardized software to collect information about those on probation some probation officers use videoconferencing to interview inmates so they do not have to spend time driving to prisons. However, even though the probation officer has all different types of technology it will still impact her ability to maintain contact because the probationer may do something like detach the bracelet or not respond to phone calls or emails and disappear but one way the probation officers can avoid that is if they install something that no matter where the probationer is it will detect his exact location and this device is something that cannot be taken off no matter how hard the...
Words: 1294 - Pages: 6
...Models of American Prison A prison is in place to confine and deprive people from their basic freedoms. A prison is an institution that is part of the criminal justice system that is imposed for the conviction of a crime. A criminal that is charged or going to be charged will be held in a prison if unable to come up with the money for bail. A criminal defendant is also placed in a prison if they are found guilty of a crime (Americanprisonsystem.com, 2009). Throughout this paper the history of a prison, the Penitentiary Rivalry between Pennsylvania and New York and the effect these have had on the prison system we have in place today. The American prison system has been in place since the late 18th century. “Bridewells” were the first prisons and they were found in England. These prisons had very little to do with any form of punishment and were mainly used as holding cells for those facing a trial or those about to be executed, or those being banished from their community. The Walnut Street jail was the first penitentiary to be opened by the state of Pennsylvania in 1790.This particular jail was ran on the ideal that silence from the inmates would encourage them to think about their crime and then their conscience would lead them to repent for their crimes (Gaines & Miller, 2009). Being isolated from one another and being kept busy with different tasks was how the inmates lived. The prison eventually began to experience the same problems that the prisons in today’s society...
Words: 985 - Pages: 4
...Table of Contents Page Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………….…....2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………..…..3 Pre-preparations….……………………………………………………………….........4-5 Before entering Upon entering the Prison..………………………………………….5-6 Brief History…………………………………………………………………………....6 Physical Layout…………………………………………………………………………7 Prison Population………………………………………………………………….……7-8 Organizational Structure………………………………………………………………...9-10 Challenges faced by the organization………………………………..…………………10 Rules……………………………………………………………………………………11-12 Enrichment Activities and Recreational Facilities………………………………………12-13 Cultural Presentation………………………………………………………….....………13-14 Income generating skill…………………………………………………………..............14-15 Steps………………………………………………………………………………………15-17 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...…………18 Acknowledgement Together, the group members would like to thank Mrs. Barbara Thomas-Holder for giving us the challenge of working together as a team in organizing ourselves as a group to visit the New Amsterdam Female Prison, gaining knowledge in our field of work. We would like to thank Mrs. Shonell Enoe for accompanying us on the day of the visit to the Prison. To the Officers of the prison, we say thank you for your time, patience, guidance and protection throughout our visit. Also to the inmates for being so co-operative and sharing their many stories of trials, tribulations and encouragement and also your friendly welcome. A warm...
Words: 3061 - Pages: 13
...The documentary 13th, touched upon different arguments that highlighted the fact that corporate interests influence prison policies and populations. ALEC, The American Legislative Exchange Council, is known to introduce federal policies. Some of which may be at the interest of many corporate companies that are affiliated. ALEC is comprised of many well-known companies such as Wal-Mart, Verizon, FedEx, etc. The documentary talked about how 1 in 4 US legislators are involved with ALEC. An example was shown where one of the legislators didn’t even bother remove the ALEC branding logo when he was introducing the bill to his colleagues. A major corporation that has been found to be linked to ALEC is the Corrections Corporation of America, or...
Words: 676 - Pages: 3
...CRIMES AND VERDICTS PROFESSOR TIMOTHY KELLY INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAY 29, 2014 I have chosen the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman as the first part of this paper. Why was Zimmerman charged and tried at the state level, and then face the possibility of Federal charges? Is this not “double jeopardy”? The court that will try a case is decided by jurisdiction, jurisdiction being defined as “(1) the legal authority of a court to hear and decide a certain type of case; (2) the geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases “ (Definitions, n.d.). Also we must clarify state and federal jurisdiction. Federal court jurisdiction is limited to the types of cases listed in the Constitution and specifically provided for by Congress. For the most part, federal courts only hear cases in which the United States is a party and cases involving violations of the U.S. Constitution or federal laws. There are others, but those are the ones relevant to this paper. State courts have much broader jurisdiction, they preside over cases most individual citizens would be involved in and most criminal cases involve violations of state law and are thus tried in state court. Being as Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder, he was tried in a state court. Zimmerman was found not guilty by the jury, so case closed, correct? U.S. Attorney General Holder stated that after the trial that the Federal Government would investigate the possibility of charging Zimmerman...
Words: 1540 - Pages: 7
...Earlier this year, there was a trial for Timothy Carpenter. His sentence was for him to serve 116 years in prison for armed robberies around Michigan and Ohio. This case caused a big argument involving the fourth amendment of the Bill of Rights that states, “The United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any search warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.” The prosecutors used Carpenter’s cell phone records for evidence to confirm his robberies. They said that his phone was connected to the cell towers that were near the locations he had been robbing. The cell phone providers saved records for their own reasons and allowed the government to use them for the purposes...
Words: 378 - Pages: 2
...PRISON IN AMERICA Since the beginning of time there has been good and evil, as man developed modern society he found that a need existed to separate the bad from the good. Society needed to find a way to protect the weak and defenseless citizens from the dangers of mankind. The use of confinement to punish offenders began in Europe in the early eighteen century. The concept of incarcerating offenders for long periods of time as a way of punishment for crimes is fairly new development in America. (McShane, Williams 1996) Before 1770’s with a few exceptions serious offenders received fines, corporal punishment, death, and banishment, but they were not incarcerated as a form of punishment. (McShane, Williams 1996) Jails were made to only hold people awaiting trail and minor offenses. This was in accordance with Puritan views that man was born into sin and punishment was God’s way of dealing with sin and evil deeds. This type of thinking was thrown out due to changing ways of criminal behavior. Now enter the modern institution designed to deal with this new breed of criminal behaviors. The first prison in America is supposed to be the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia (1790) There is however another, an abandoned copper mine in Connecticut which was converted into a prison. In 1773 Newgate prison accepted its first inmate by the 1820’s it was closed due to rising costs. (McShane, Williams 1996) This was the first institution designed to incarcerate offenders with...
Words: 2321 - Pages: 10
...and tying them together is important to ensuring that the project continues to run smoothly. Communication Plan Every project, no matter how big or how small, must have a well thought out and effective communication plan to be successful. According to the PMBOK, a communication plan establishes who will be communicating with who, how often, and by what means (Project Management Institute, 2013). The first step in any communication plan is to establish who needs to know what information. Because this is a relatively simple project involving a small number of people the list of people who will need to be informed of their duties is pretty small. The people included in the list of those who the information will be disseminated to are the prison warden, the project manager and the project team. The communication plan needs to establish what information needs to be communicated and at what frequency. For the inmate shower project there are four types of project information, project planning, project execution and control, project closure and project publicity. To simplify this, Team A has created a...
Words: 1213 - Pages: 5
...industry was in its infancy and beginning to grow. Kevin grew in a lower-middle-class environment, with his parents having divorced while he was still young. He had an interest in how the telephone network worked and how he could use the telephone network for his benefits (i.e. hacking). By using a personal computer and a modem Kevin was able to commandeer a phone company’s digital central office switch by dialling in remotely, this simple technique allowed Kevin to make free calls and eavesdrop all communications made by every individual. This was the start of his hacking “career”. At the of 17 years old, Kevin was arrested and charged with “destroying data over a computer network”, he spend three months in jail. What did he do? Instead of using his knowledge to explore the various computer adventures, Mr Kevin preferred to rather have a run-in with the police. Time after time he had a collision with the police. His next arrest was in 1983 at the University Southern California, where he was caught trying to gain illegal access to ARPnet using the university’s computer. For the crime committed he was sentenced to six months in prison. When he was released, he had the number plate of his car printed “XHACKER”, but he still had a hacking appetite. A couple of years later he was accused of tampering with a credit transfer computer. An arrest warrant was issued, but it later disappeared from the policies records without a clear explanation. Kevin’s main method of obtaining illegal information...
Words: 935 - Pages: 4
...police received a tip from a 911 phone call from a man named Johnny Gray. At the time of the call Mr. Gray claimed to be Sammy Mitchell, who was well known by the police and prosecutors. Don Tisdale the district attorney on the case prosecuted Sammy Mitchell numerous times, and saw Darryl as a young version of him. The first time Mr. Hunt was picked up by the police he claimed his innocence and cooperated with them. Later Darryl stated that the D.A. offered him $12,000 to say Sammy Mitchell committed the murder, and promised all charges against him would be dropped. If Mr. Hunt refused Tisdale said he would seek the death penalty in his case. Darryl refused to turn his friend in, and was charge with the rape and murder of Sykes even though there was no physical evidence linking him to this case. His charges were based on the 911 phone call, and an ID made by a previous Klan member Thomas Murphy. During this time Hunt met a man named Larry Little. Mr. Little started independently investigating Darryl’s case because he felt there was no way Darryl could commit this brutal crime. After talking to people in the neighborhood Larry soon learned that Johnny Gray was known as a shady and unreliable source. Little brought this to the attention of defense attorneys Mark Rabil and Larry Gordon. The defense argued their case to the court, but it did not help. On August 10, 1984 Darryl Hunt was convicted by an all-white jury and sentence to life in prison. In 1990 six years later, the court...
Words: 1257 - Pages: 6
...This paper addresses the relatively new form of sexual exploitation called “sextortion” that has emerged on the cybersex crime scene recently, and its affect upon teenagers and children. In addition, the paper addresses the dangers of scams associated with “sextortion”, its criminal profile, law enforcement initiatives to combat “sextortion”, and the penalties for committing these types of crimes. “Sextortion” is a method of sexual exploitation in which individuals are extorted with nude images of themselves shared online over the Internet. Texting has become the modern day method of communication among teens and children, and in the case of “sextortion” these images are displayed online via the new term of “Sexting” that is done via cell phones. Sexual predators that live online, in chat rooms, and on social networking websites eventually coerce their victims into performing sexual acts, or even performing hardcore pornography by sending threating e-mails through personal sites or social networking sites, such as Facebook, and MySpace. The demands of the extortionist...
Words: 2163 - Pages: 9
...Carlton Witmore Jenifer Chicosky ENG-111 Expository Writing 15 July 9, 2013 Trouble with Teens People have always relied on a variety of forms of communication to develop social skills through interaction with one another. The history of interpersonal communication methods includes: face-to-face, written messages, smoke signals, telegraph, Morse code, sign language, radio, telephone, e-mail, and most recently, cell phones. Since the first cell phone was made available, it too has seen improvements. Today, talk-only cell phones are a thing of the past. Naturally, text messaging has become increasingly prevalent among teenagers wishing to stay in perpetual contact with their friends. With the move toward increasingly high-tech means of communication, some argue that certain types of communication may have negative social implications. In particular, some believe that contemporary media that eliminates physical human interaction—such as e-mail, Internet chatting, or short message service (SMS) texting—which can adversely affect social development. Currently, heavy reliance on text messaging is causing the most concern. Someone texting while driving is not only doing so at the most inappropriate time but also is a threat to other motorists. A more thorough understanding of this argument requires research and analysis by notable scholars to shed light on the issues surrounding text-based communication and social development. One issue drawing increasing attention is the effect...
Words: 1132 - Pages: 5
...Consider the possible that one day you get a phone call from someone telling you that there was an accident and that your child is dead because a person using their cell phone wasn’t paying attention to the road. Would you be devastated? I sure would. Here are three main reasons why we should ban driving while use of cell phones. Using cell phones while driving is distracting, cell phones while driving impairs you as much as drinking, You can be charged with homicide. Why Using cell phones while driving is distracting. Distracted driving is a dangerous epidemic on America's roadways. In 2012 alone, 3,328 were killed in distracted driving crashes. The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3,360 in 2011 to 3,328 in 2012. An estimated 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, this was a nine percent increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured in 2011. 11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted. Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by thirty seven percent Using cell phones while driving impairs you as much as drinking! Distraction from cell phone use while driving extends a drivers reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol concentration level as much as the legal limit...
Words: 708 - Pages: 3
...been a way of community correction, but with technological advancement and considering the psychology of convicted people, correction programs have widened to accommodate work releases, day fine programs, electronic monitoring, home confinement, community service, half way houses, boot camp prisons, restitution, check-in programs, mediation, curfews, restorative justice centers, drug checks, alcohol checks and other methods where there is a certain level of trust between the offenders and the people involved. The objective of this essay is to compare and contrast characteristics and goals of halfway houses, day reporting centers, and drug courts. Their similarities and difference in regards to incarceration will also be discussed. Halfway houses, also called “community correction centers” or “residential reentry centers” are used mostly as an intermediate housing option to help a person return from prison to the community after he has served a prison sentence (Bayens & Smykla, 2013). Sometimes, though, halfway houses can be used instead of prison or jail, usually when a person’s sentence is very short. For example, halfway houses may be a good choice when a person has served time in prison, been released on parole, and then violated a parole condition and been ordered to serve a few months additional time for that violation. While in halfway houses, offenders are monitored and must fulfill conditions placed on them by the court. Offenders are placed in a structured environment...
Words: 1507 - Pages: 7
