...Prisoners with Special Needs David Stevens CJS/255 May 30, 2016 Sherri Webster Special needs, mentally ill, and substance-abusing prisoners affect the jail and prison systems at a state and federal level in a multitude of ways. One of the main issues within prisons is the fact that their mental health services can be seriously inadequate and lacking the proper staffing, all while operating in facilities that are not equipped to handle such prisoners, on top of a limited amount of programs to even help these prisoners with their problems. If these prisoners are not cared for properly, it could lead to deteriorating conditions for the prisoners. State and Federal Levels are Affected Jails and prisons are not meant to be home to the mentally ill, yet, when someone who is mentally ill commits a crime and cannot receive help outside of jail or prison, that is where they end up. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression are just a few mental disorders that can plague prisoners in the criminal justice system. One of the main issues with prisoners having these mental health issues is the fact that prisons are not sufficiently capable of dealing with the increasing amount of prisoners coming into the system with mental health disorders (Human Rights Watch, 2016). Human Rights Watch (2016) goes on to state that “Unfortunately, prisons are ill-equipped to respond appropriately to the needs of prisoners with mental illness…Many seriously ill prisoners receive little...
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...Prisoners with Special Needs Cara Lester CJA/234 July 9th, 2013 University of Phoenix George king There are many special needs prisoners, one that many are familiar with are the mentally ill, and substance abusing. In 1955 there weren’t any mental institutions being built, and there were forty that were shut down about a decade ago. As of today there were more prisons opening up, and many people seemed the most qualified to care for and house these patients. Today prisons have taken on the lead role of caring for mentally ill patients, housing 45,000 in prison to 3,000 in mental institutions. Rehabilitation programs are lacking in the mentally ill category, therefore mentally ill prisoners usually return to prison. There are many inmates in prisons that have different special needs. Some of these needs are based on the sex of the inmate. Male’s prisoners have a lot more special needs to take care of their selves as the females prisoners do not. You also have inmates who suffer from a mental illness. Their special needs are much more different than those who have basic needs. People who suffer from substance abuse have needs in the area called addiction. With having these...
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...Special Offenders Vin Sharma CJA/234 4/24/2014 Keone Thomas Special Offenders Definition According to “(Prison Glossary)” Offenders whose mental and/or physical condition requires special accommodation by DOC employees, contract workers, or volunteers. Special needs offenders may include, but are not limited to, drug or alcohol addicts or abusers, the emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, suspected mentally ill, physically handicapped, chronically ill, the disabled or infirm, those with documented custody issues and those with limited academic ability or learning disability “(Prison Glossary)”. With that being said there are many special needs prisoners, one that many people are familiar with are the mentally ill, and substance abusing. There are many other illnesses then obvious ones, some prisoners have physical problems, others have infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, while some have serious substance abuse issues. One special offender no one thinks about is the elderly offenders in 2007 over ten percent of inmates in prisons were 50 years or older and many with serious health problems. Mentally ill and substance abusing prisoners In this paper I will be discussing the two common types of special needs offenders, the mentally ill and the substance abusing offenders. Among the prison population there are mentally ill prisoners, special needs offenders, and substance-abusing offenders. These special offenders affect...
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...CUSTODIAL AND NON-CUSTODIAL MEASURES The Prison System Criminal justice assessment toolkit 1 UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna CUSTODIAL AND NON-CUSTODIAL MEASURES The Prison System Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit UNITED NATIONS New York, 2006 The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations, the Secretariat and Institutions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Belgian 2006 OSCE Chairmanship concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. This publication has not been formally edited. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUE ..................................................................................... 1 2. OVERVIEW: GENERAL AND STATISTICAL DATA ......................................................... 5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 7.1 7.2 OVERVIEW OF COUNTRY AND PRISON SYSTEM.............................................. 5 PRISON POPULATION ........................................................................................... 6 PROFILE OF PRISON POPULATION..................................................................... 6 QUALITY OF DATA ......................................
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...Running head: ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS 1 Ethical treatment of prisoners Jacqueline Arnold SOC120 Instructor Mark Cohen November 1, 2012 ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS 2 The ethical treatment of prisoners, there are millions of people in prison all over the United States, but the ethical treatment of the prisoners’ rights must be analyzed. As a society, have we done all we can regarding the treatment of prisoners? Alternatively, can we say we have made prison an easy way of life that is no longer a punishment for some? Utilitarianism is the belief those moral rules should be choices made by a society to promote the happiness of its members. (Mosser, 2010). In February 2010, the House of Delegates approved a set of Criminal Justice Standards on Treatment of Prisoners. The term “prison” means a correctional facility holding primarily prisoners sentenced to a term of at least one year. In the terms of a “prisoner” means any person incarcerated in a correctional facility. The argument could be is that prisoners are being treated good, but some say that they are not being treated like prisoners. However, when you think back many years ago, prisoners did not have any rights. The wardens run the prison as they saw fit. As for the prisoners in the day, they would be taken out and beaten, whipped, and even killed. But with the the ethical treatment of prisoners today, includes a humane and healthful...
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...Special Needs Criminals Alexisandra Garland CJA/234 September 21st, 2013 Jeffery Newton Special Needs Prisoner The American penal system is comprised of every element of society imaginable. There are people from all walks of life being held in one prison or another across our great country for crimes they’ve committed or allegedly committed against mankind. Be it at the state, federal or county level, the U.S. prison system does not discriminate with regards to those who are physically challenged. Be it a prisoner who is mentally challenged or one whom is confined to a wheelchair, if they have committed a crime and are found guilty of such, they will be sentenced to facility that under most circumstances are equipped to handle prisoners with special needs. Take for example the criminally insane or those suffering with various kinds of mental illness: Round about 1955 the number of mental institution experienced a drawdown of types, in that they were not building any new facilities, despite the fact that approximately forty of the existing one’s had been shut down or were scheduled to be shut down. This change prompted the prison system to take over the role of caring for mentally ill inmates. As more and more prisons grew so did the role of the prison system to care for the influx of the special needs prisoners. Prisons were able to house and care for some 45,000 prisoners including those who were mentally ill, compared to that of a mental institutions...
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...codes that the majority of the prisoners go by in prison. You have prison codes, or rules, and inmate codes, rules that they must go by. If an inmate breaks the prison rules then the person who broke the rules will be properly reprimanded. If an inmate breaks the codes set up by other inmates then they can be subject to retaliation from other inmates, which can consist of getting beat up, seriously injured, or killed. You have absolutely no privacy in prison and most people have to share their cells with one or more other inmates, due to overcrowding in the prison system. The prisoner’s toilet and beds are within inches or feet of each other and they all have to take showers together. A prisoner has only certain places they can be when incarcerated, which are their cell, the yard, lunch room, shower, and common housing area. (Foster, 2006). Many different cliques are in the environment based on race or gang association. These groups can influence the management and custody in a variety of ways. The management and the daily interaction with the other prisoners must be handled with respect and sensitivity to the race factor. They have come up with stragies to combat prison gangs, which are isolation of gang leaders, segregation, labeling members for intelligence purposes, deprogramming, and the placement of these members in high-security prisons. There are special response teams that were formed to respond to gang violence, such as the Special Operations Response Team (SORT)...
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...SENSITIZATION OF PRISONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WOMEN Prisons are less sensitive to the psychological needs of women. There is a growing need for gender sensitization of the prison system. This paper essentially deals with the dilemmas faced by women prisoners in India due to the lack of gender sensitization in Indian jails. Any major program related to well-being of prisoners is focused on men, ignoring the women inmates in prisons all over the nation. The main areas of problems include the lack of provisions for inmates who have infants to take care of, social stigma during and after the prison term, and economic pressures mainly flowing from the traditional economic dependence of women on their male counterparts.. Therefore, this paper argues that there is a need for amendments at a series of levels, from Jail Manuals and prison rules to the technicalities of the prison system in the country apart from the, due care that is required to ensure that the medical, psychiatric, economic and social needs of women inmates are met. Women form a small portion of the total prison population in India. As per the World Female Imprisonment List, more than half a million women and girls are detained in penal institutions all over the world. As far as the Indian scenario is concerned, the statistics of the National Human Rights Commission till 2004 revealed that there are about 13, 355 women and girls in penal institutions all over the country, forming 4 per cent of the total prison...
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...Prisoners with Special Needs M J CJA/234 Introduction “Special needs offenders are incarcerated offenders with special needs stemming from their physical or mental age or other disabilities. Special needs can encompass many types of conditions like :offenders with severe psychological needs, mental retardation, significant psychiatric disorders, behavior disorders, multiple handicaps, neurological impairment and substance abuse; or offenders with physical handicaps, or chronic or terminal illnesses; or elderly offenders; or offenders with severe social and/or educational deficiencies, learning disabilities or language barriers; or offenders with special security or supervision needs, such as protective custody cases, death row inmates and those who chronically exhibit potential or aggressive behavior; or sex offenders, for whom appropriate treatment may reduce the risk of reoffending” ("Special Needs Offender Law & Legal Definition", n.d.). As more inmates are found guilty and are given prison sentences the prison system has to focus on separating special needs offenders. This separation is necessary to insure safety and balance within the facility. The special needs population can affect both the state and federal level of incarceration because they must gather accurate date. Putting offenders with different needs together can lead to violence issues among inmates. There is also an increase...
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...Donation by Prisoners There have been rumors that China has been harvesting organs from prisoners on a massive scale. There hasn't been a total amount of recorded incidents because China doesn't report them all and covers up any evidence after these secret operations have been performed. However, not everyone agrees with China’s communist government retrieving organs from the prisoners. All those that have stood up for these victims, most often than not, meet the same terrible fate as these prisoners so that they can continue their business in the black market. On the other hand, The United States are unsuccessful in finding organs for people who suffer from organ failures and die before an operation can be performed. In the United States, there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people waiting on a transplant list to receive an organ. A donor can save up to eight lives when giving his organs. The United States could have more organs available if we could allow prisoners to donate. However, we shouldn't force them to give up their organs, we should allow them to...
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... An offender would get incarcerated for a crime that breaks the federal law and an offender who breaks a state law may get incarcerated in a state prison. Both federal and state prisons have different levels of security for people convicted of different things such as low, medium, and high security. Most security levels are made up to hold different levels of dangerous criminals. Minimum security prisons are less tight with their security because prisoners at this level are considered to pose little risk. There is less supervision over the internal movements of prisoners, as well as communal showers, toilets, sinks, and some internet access. Minimum level security prisons also offer little supervised programs, such as community service roadside. Medium security level prisons usually have one or two person prison cells. Prisoners may leave their cells for work assignments, correctional programs, common area, or an exercise yard. A prisoner is often confined for 23 hours a day in a maximum security facility. These prisoners are considered some of the most dangerous. These prisons are tightly restricted. Prisons are like mini communities, totally...
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...history or symptoms of mental illness, but since being installed there, he has become deranged and has engaged in numerous acts of self-mutilation, including biting off his finger, and trying to kill himself on several occasions (“Reports on and from”). To give people an idea of why a previously sane person would lapse into madness at ADX, they would need look no further than the circumstances of their confinement. ADX was designed to ensure the total isolation of all its prisoners, who are held in cells about the size of an average bathroom. The cells have thick, concrete soundproof walls, a door with bars and a second door made of solid steel. The only possible means of communicating with other humans is to yell into the toilet bowl and hope that someone may hear. The inmates are kept in their cells twenty four hours of the day for two days each week (“Inside the World’s”). On the other five days, they may get to spend approximately one hour in a similarly-sized cage for what is referred to as "outdoor" recreation. By its own policy, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) excludes the mentally ill from ADX, but it seems that many prisoners with mental illness end up there because of a deficient screening process and some who were...
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...a prison without enough wardens. For example the Pollsmoor Prison, with its extreme overcrowding which leads to irritations and violence. The prison population is growing and so does the budget. Put in extra wardens is an issue for the government. In South Africa a lot of prisoners have to deal with assaults, rape and even being killed by prison officials or fellow prisoners. The state has to ensure safety of the prisoners, according to the law of human rights. Despite this, violence is still a part of prison life. (CSPRI, 2017) Improve living circumstances...
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...health care in the view point of a prisoner it may take a completely different view. People in prison have Federal and State laws which make prisons provide health care for the prisoners needs. Within this paper a government agency will be identified, one that has a role in regulating health care which is provided for prisoners within an institution in the United States; as well as a another agency that regulate certifications, accreditations, license, along with authorization for the employees that are employed within a facility that houses prisoners. Federal Bureau of Prisons An agency that was founded May 13, 1930; and approved by President Herbert Hoover and was called The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). This agency is headquartered in Washington D.C. and is a subdivision of the U.S. Justice Department. The BOP is accountable for the administration of the Federal prison system. The only purpose of the BOP is to furnish an unbiased and empathetic care to anyone who is a federal prisoner in the U.S. prison system. The BOP also provides inmates with any health care they may need in agreement with any Federal and State laws. One of the most negative aspects that the BOP is responsible for is carrying out all judicially mandated federal executions, including the lethal injection of inmates who have been sentenced to death for a crime they have committed (Federal, 2012). The BOP also maintains the chamber for lethal injection of a prisoner. They are the ones that make sure...
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...Special Needs Inmates As stated in the Merriam-Webster dictionary special needs is the individual requirements of a person with a disadvantaged background or a mental, emotional, or physical disability or a high risk of developing one. Most serious crimes are created by mentally ill people, we just call them criminals. We do not recognize the attention or special needs they are needing until they are incarcerated after committing the crime. I am not saying all criminals are mentally ill. There are some criminals that require special needs because of their health issues. It is a law that prison should abide by attending to special needs inmates, it will be heartless to mistreat or not tend to an inmate because of something he/she cannot control....
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