...Cristian Loera-Flores CJAD 350 Professor Carden July 4, 2015 Prison Culture Prison, a place that is always on the news, that is always spoken of with great fear or disrespect, a place that can and will change your life forever if you were so inclined to take part in activities that will send you there. There are a lot of events that can get you into prison, but what it’s like on the inside is a whole different story. From the diverse selection of prison gangs that are separated by race and religion, to the frantic “free market trade” that occurs in every prison system across the United States, prison culture has risen past any staff, director, or officer could have ever imagined. Prison culture has taken a life of its own, so much so, that now the general public has become exposed to the integrate and sometimes brutal culture that has been methodically developed since the early days of imprisonment. Time goes hand in hand with the evolution of this culture, refinement through inmate “research and development” has allowed generations of culture, adapt and survive even through staff struggles to stop them. Firstly I would like to discuss the progression of prison culture, where it started, how it evolved, what influenced caused this evolution, and where it is now. Although prison culture dates back to the early 13th centuries, there is very little actually known about their culture and would probably not be seen as the same “jailing” that takes place now. The earliest credible...
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...Jails and Prisons August 12, 2013 Jails and Prisons Prisons are identified by federal, state, or private facilities, and are classified by security levels. Security levels in state go from level one to four acting as maximum, federal level one acting as a maximum to level five acting as an administrative, special needs unit. Private prisons are contracted by the state and federal ones to reduce spending. Jails and prisons both house inmates however, have a distinct difference. Jail is for the low level convicted, non-convicted, protected and a holding place for the Jails mentally ill. Jails, such as the Fresno County jails operate to protect the immediate community. Prison is strictly for the convicted. California state prison Corcoran houses the convicted and commits to wellness of the inmates through medical, dental, and educational needs. Inmates in prison and jail adapt to the environment around them and commit to the prisonization culture discussed later in the paper. * * Prisons in the Unites States are identified as federal, state, or privately run institutions. Within each of the institutions prisons are classified by security levels. The security levels in state prisons range from level one through four. Level four houses the higher security level inmates. State prisons also provide special security housing units for inmates with special needs, such as mental health, disabilities, high threat levels, and protective custody. Federal prisons operate with...
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...every culture comes traditions, ideas, and beliefs that are their own. Tattoos play an important role in many cultures. Every culture has its own methods of tattooing, the types of tattoos they receive, and what the tattoos symbolize. It is clear that people from one culture will view tattoos from another culture differently than tattoos worn within their own culture. When comparing tattoos between Russian prison inmates and everyday North American tattoos, several similarities and differences can be seen. North American and Russian prison tattoos are similar in many ways in regards to what motivates them to obtain them. One major similarity is that tattooing is a means of signifying identity. Inmates living in the Russian prison system as well as North Americans receive tattoos in order to be identified as a member of a certain group. Russian prison inmates can have coded tattoo designs such as cathedrals, stars, eyes, and skulls that serve as symbols, each with their own meaning, which nonmembers do not understand. These coded tattoos are used to form commitments and are a way to bond with people within the group. This reason also serves as a motivation for people in North America. Another similarity when comparing these two cultures is that tattoos serve as memorials or represent a specific, important event in their life. For example, in North America, a person may obtain a tattoo of a lost loved one to honor their memory. If a tattoo of a rose is seen on a prison inmate...
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...Mitigating Prison Violence Cynthia Evans CJ522: Comparative Correctional Systems June 17, 2014 Mitigating Prison Violence Violence in prison systems remains to be a persistent problem among enforcers and inmates alike. Not only does it compromise inmate safety and institutional security, it distorts the purpose of prison systems as penitentiary systems meant to discourage criminal behavior. Adding to this complication, the problem is present in nearly all prison systems worldwide, with some systems more prone to it than others. In America, homicide inside jails and state prisons has remained relatively low in recent years at 3 per 100,000 on average (Mumola, 2005). The same cannot be said for Brazilian prisons, however; in 2013 alone, around 60 inmates were killed in Brazilian prisons, and three others died through decapitation and heavy mutilation at the beginning of the year (Cawley, 2014). Violence in prison systems is by no means limited to physical violence or individual assaults. In the first place, “violence in prison” is a broad category, which involves a range of situations and actions from certain parties, with violence as their common factor. It may involve riots, mutinies, and individual assaults. It may also, in fact, be taken to mean any form of violence—usually physical and/or sexual—done by inmates to fellow inmates, or prison staff to inmates. For example, while physical violence is an all-time low in American prisons, sexual violence is on the rise there...
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...and Prison Paper CJA/204 March 31, 2014 Prisons and jails have many similarities and differences. They both play a significant role in our criminal justice system. Many aspects affect the roles of jails and prison’s cultures and subcultures. Both facilities have a role with community-based correction programs. Jails and prisons serve as a means of housing for individuals that are convicted and prosecuted for crimes. A lot of violence and negative behavior takes place in both jails and prisons. There are different levels of prisons and location plays a big part in what type of criminals are housed in different facilities. Probation and parole are a part of the process that is involved within jail and prison sentences. I live in Maricopa Arizona where our jails and prisons differ depending on the type of inmates and location of the facilities. Most locals are familiar with our main prisons and local jail housing cells. There are different type of prisons even though all of them serve the same purpose of housing those who have broken the law. Those that are incarcerated are kept away from free society and during lock up our limited to most freedoms. Each prisoner serves different lengths of time based off of their individual sentence and crime. The different types of prisons are juvenile, minimum, medium, high security, psychiatric, and military. Juvenile prisons are there to house anyone under the age of eighteen that is convicted of a crime. Minimum security prisons are...
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...To the attention of the Prison Governor North of England Sir, Following are some national scale statistics related to prisons’ performance and associated costs as issued by the Center for Social Justice in March 2009A. which I would like to use as argument in reply to your statement on Total Quality. - Prisons population has increased dramatically in the last decade, counting as of today about 83000 people; - Approximately three quarters of young prisoners under 25 and two thirds of all adult prisoners are reconvicted within two years of release; - Today, the annual public expenditure costs of running prisons and managing offenders is over £5 billion, which combined with £11 billion costs of re-offending as estimated by Social Exclusion Unit (in 2002), amount to an annual total of £16 billion. Relating statistics to your statements, I agree with you, “Total Quality is a myth” but I add “because people in charge fail to commit to it” Although not directly related to our business, I want to use these statistics as a means to show the impact of Total Quality culture as compared to traditional management style of prisons. A critical analysis instead, leads to the conclusion that prisons management and the correctional system is stuck in a closed cycle between overcrowding and failure to rehabilitate. This is part of a traditional prison management where more of the same, brings in turn more of the same, resulting in long term progressive loss, both financial...
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...Jail and Prison Paper Tara Frost CJA/204 June 15, 2015 Christopher Cannon Jail and Prison Paper Have you ever wondered about the types of prisons or the major differences between selected jails and selected prisons? Have you ever wondered about the aspects of jail and prison culture and subculture? Why do jails play an important role in the criminal justice system? What is the role of community-based corrections programs associated with jails and prisons? Did you know that violent behavior occurs in jails and prisons? Do you know what the role of probation and parole are? Well, this paper will answer all of those questions for you. By the end of this paper, you will understand a lot better about jail and prisons. Types of Prisons Prisons are grouped into two categories, which are state and federal (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 466). According to Schamelleger (2011), there are six types of prisons (p.468) One type of prison is high-security prison for long-term, high-risk offenders (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). There is one or more medium-security institution for offenders who are not high risks. There is even one institution for adult women (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). There are one or two institutions for young adults (generally under age 25) (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). According to Schamelleger (2011) there is also, one or two, specialized mental hospital-type security prisons for mentally ill prisoners (p.468). The last type of prison, is one or more, open-type institutions...
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...Jails and Prisons Jails and Prisons Jails and prisons play an important role in criminal justice. Although each serves as a part of the governmental legal system, jails and prisons are different from one another. Each community has a jail and each state has a prison. In my county the jail well known is the Kitsap County Jail and the state prison that we know mostly of is the Washington State Corrections Center for Women. I will discuss in detail the differences between Kitsap County Jail and the Washington State Corrections Center for Women. Within the paper, different topics will emerge that will explain the different types of prisons, aspects of culture and subculture inside prison, correctional programs, violence inside prison and the roles of jails in criminal justice. Jails and prisons play one important role and that is obtaining those who are offenders of the law. There are two types of prisons, federal and state. Federal prisons are for those who are convicted of federal criminal offenses, such as fraud and houses inmates for longer periods of time. State prisons are for those convicted of state criminal offenses. In the United States, prisons have traditionally been distinguished by the following custody levels: high security, maximum security, medium security, low and minimum security. High security prisons hold the high risk inmates, those who are at risk of escaping for example. The prison has the inmates in their cell 23 hours a day, and releases them...
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...SOC482 < Sociologie de la prison et de l’expérience carcérale > Tuğçe GÖLGELİ Enseignante: Seçil DOĞUÇ AVRİL 2014 QU’EST CE QU’ON PEUT DIRE SUR L’EFFICACITE DE L’EMPRISONNEMENT? Cet article met l'accent sur le niveau de la prison et de l'emprisonnement de dissuader les individus et la société de commettre un crime. L'effet de l'emprisonnement comme une sorte de punition et les effets de la prison sur les prisonniers sont discutés. Dans cette étude, il est particulièrement essayé de déterminer par «sous-culture carcérale" .Pourquoi certains des prisonniers libérés commettre le crime nouveau ? De cet aspect, l'emprisonnement n'a pas effectivement un rôle dissuasif sur les criminels. Enfin, les nouvelles approches en cours d'élaboration, en donnant plus d'importance aux politiques de punition dans la société, le maintien seuls les criminels persistants à être envoyé en prison avec une politique de incarcération sélective, et les programmes de réhabilitation de la prison sont soulignées comme une alternative à la prison. La prison est sans aucun doute l'une des institutions premier qui empêche ou contrôle le crime. En d'autres termes, la prison constitue l'aujourd'hui l'un des moyens les plus efficaces contre la lutte de la criminalité. Par conséquent, la caractéristique la plus importante de la prison, c'est qu'il a une fonctionnalité...
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...Jail and Prisons Student name: Class Name : Instructor Name: Date: Abstract: Through out this paper I will be discussing the types of prisons, as well as the differences between Jail and Prisons. I will also discussing Aspects about jail and prison culture and subculture. Next I will be talking about the role jails have a part in our criminal justice system. Then I will be discussing about how violent behavior among all those involved in the prison system from inmates to the staff and role of probation and parole. Types of prisons There are four types of prisons federal, state, municipal, and military. Federal prison is operated and managed by the government who normally house inmates who have been convicted of a crime in violation of a federal statue. State prisons are facilities operated by a state and used to house and rehabilitate criminals. State prisons have a minimum and maximum security prisons which are divided based on the severity of the crime. Municipal prison is a high security prison. Military prison is operated by the military and is used to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by the military or national authority and member of the military found guilty of a serious crime. (Department of Corrections WA State", 2012) Differences between jail and prisons: Although...
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...Jail and Prison Tyshunique Wade CJS/201 March 17, 2016 Clark Nissen, Ph.D. Where do offenders go after they commit a crime? Depending on the type and extent of the crime, they either go to jail or prison. What would life be without morals, rights and judicial laws? If the world was without order and no one supported the structure of containing crime with correctional and facilities, the world may be in pandemonium; full of gangs, violence killing, rape, suicide and a world if corrupt figures. Jail and prison facilities play a significant role in providing structure and governmental law enforcement. Jail and Prison Jail and prison are the same in many ways. According to (CJ interactive), each is a form of supervised detention, they both meet the minimal daily needs of detainees, and they both segregate inmates to some degree from staff, the community, and one another. As far as behavioral issues, both experience a variety of violent behavior; such as, riots which included mutilation, torture, beatings, and sexual assault. Though they have noticeable similarities, they are very much different and are commonly confused. Jail is a locally-operated, short term facility where as prison is a state or federally operated, long term facility. Jails are mainly used for detaining inmates awaiting trial or sentencing. They can also house inmates who have been sentenced for less than a year. This will vary depending on the state. Prisons are long term facilities used after sentencing...
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...Prison Environment Dana Garlington CJS/230 June 29, 2012 Douglas Brinkley Prison Environment A prison environment is a place where inmates are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms (Foster, 2006). The prison environment influences the institutional management and custody by the growing population and the gangs within the facility. Overcrowding aggravates the natural conflicts that rely within the prisons walls which then escalate violence. When working with criminals on an ongoing basis it may cause corruption to occur with inmates within the institution, allowing drugs and weapons into the facility can degrade performance. The internal environment of a prisons primary influence towards management and custody include the following: the inmate social culture, the prisons physical environment, and prison staff culture. The external environment interacts with the internal environment that influences management and custody by the following: the civil service department, which makes the rules for employees, employee organizations, and unions, which represent their member's interests, rehabilitation advocates, such as those sponsoring particular behavioral science, educational, or religious interventions inside the prison. Prison environment changes can be in the rational and economic view, in which material rewards controls are provided in the direction people are in need of it. Some secure custody methods include counting inmates to know their...
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...utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens are responsible for perimeter security and maintaining an orderly, secure internal environment. Wardens often regard themselves as administrators, rather than leaders. As wardens become more educated, the formal structure of modern prisons is likely to resemble a large, private organization with an established hierarchy and defined responsibilities. When governments confine people, they assume certain responsibilities toward them, including provision of constitutional living conditions, thus avoiding law suits and court interventions. Other management issues, such as classification, custody, and control, are also a high priority for modern prisons. During the last several decades, there has been a move toward professionalization in—moving from custody to control to care. Achieving scientific, uniform, and successful administration of public punishment through professional development is the goal of the American Correctional Association. In this professionalization effort, issues such prison health care, privatization, and diversity of incarcerated populations are the frequent focus of correctional studies. This Week in Relation to the Course This week, you focus on the functions, policies, and procedures of corrections...
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...utilitarian thinking, society recognized three additional goals: deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The relative importance of these goals became tied to conservative, liberal, or radical ideology. In assuming management of a prison, wardens are responsible for perimeter security and maintaining an orderly, secure internal environment. Wardens often regard themselves as administrators, rather than leaders. As wardens become more educated, the formal structure of modern prisons is likely to resemble a large, private organization with an established hierarchy and defined responsibilities. When governments confine people, they assume certain responsibilities toward them, including provision of constitutional living conditions, thus avoiding law suits and court interventions. Other management issues, such as classification, custody, and control, are also a high priority for modern prisons. During the last several decades, there has been a move toward professionalization in—moving from custody to control to care. Achieving scientific, uniform, and successful administration of public punishment through professional development is the goal of the American Correctional Association. In this professionalization effort, issues such prison health care, privatization, and diversity of incarcerated populations are the frequent focus of correctional studies. This Week in Relation to the Course This week, you focus on the functions, policies, and procedures of corrections...
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... This paper provides an analysis of human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons that people have to confront. And the author points out prisons’ growth can't be isolated from problems of our society, such as racism, poverty and global capitalism. And I want to talk about is the time for the prison approaching an end? Since 1970s, prisons have grown exponentially, because there exist a cycle of joblessness and incarceration. A plenty of people lost their jobs and prospects when corporations and deindustrialization migrate to another area. In the mean time, prisons will provide a lot of jobs and bring economic growth to some specific area that need help. When these depressed area gradually recover the economy. The cycle will set up naturally. Then the prisons offer an opportunity let people have excuse to disassociate from problems in our society, such as racism and economic and societal imbalance. Just like a sentence in the article ”It relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”(Are Prisons Obsolete? pg. 16) People most of time used to overlook problem of prison system. Conversely, people would like to regard the prisons as a solution to deal with some problems in society. This behavior not only let people ignore how much of a problem prisons are, but also helps us forget about how much we should be doing about other issues, such...
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