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Jail's Place in Corrections and its Role Throughout History
The jail system plays a vital role in the correctional system. A jail is a county or regional system controlled by the city or state it is in. The majority of criminals that are housed in jails are awaiting sentencing or have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to under one year of confinement. In some cases the inmates are not incarcerated for a punishment; some examples are protective custody and contempt of court. Most the inmates are eligible for house arrest or community programs; -
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this includes men, women and juveniles. Throughout history the Jail system has been used for many things besides housing criminals; in the eleven hundreds the British housed mentally ill and the poor in the gaol or jail. Our current jail system mainly uses the jail to house short term inmates, small time offenders and convicted inmates awaiting to taken to prison. -
History of Jails and Prisons
The prison system was designed by the Quakers in Pennsylvania in the seventeen hundreds; the citizens wanted something not as barbaric as their current system of flogging, public beatings and torture. They designed the prisons to a means of rehabilitation and a deterrent to crime. The Pennsylvania system was designed for solitary living; the idea was to keep the inmates apart and give them a chance to repent for thei History of prisons -
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for their crimes. In the eighteen hundreds prisons grew in population and they had to go to a different system called the Auburn system. This brought in prisoner labor and Communal meals; the prisoners had the opportunity to speak to one another and learn a trade while incarcerated. As the prison system evolved the push for prisoner rehabilitation started to grow; early release for good behavior and educational programs were also introduced. In the late eighteen hundreds the industrial -
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In the late eighteen hundreds the industrial prison came about; the rising cost for incarceration pushed drove the demand for prison labor to generate income. In the early nineteen hundreds the prison system returned to the hard time and long sentence punishment; the punitive era was born. After World War II the citizens began to think criminals were mentally disturbed and medical therapy was introduced in the prison system. The Government began to treat the prisoners with extensive sensory -
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deprivation and neurosurgeries. In the late nineteen sixties incarceration began to be looked at as dehumanizing; re-socialization in the community and rehabilitation was a strategy to try and change the current system. The warehouse era came in to effect in the nineteen eighties; after the current system was failing the government lost faith and went to mandatory minimum sentences and cracked down on criminals. Our prison system has almost went full circle. -
Similarities and Differences Between Security Levels in Jails, State Prisons, and Federal Prisons
State and Federal PrisonThe State Prison System was designed for inmates serving over a one year sentence; each state has designed its own penal code. Most state inmates are convicted of Murder, rape and weapons related charges; these prisons can range from minimum security up to super-max. The Federal Prison system was established for prisoners that have been incarcerated due to committing Federal crimes. Most your Federal prisoners are bank robbers, political prisoners and low level criminals. -
Factors Influencing Growth in Jails, State Prisons, and Federal Prisons
Problems witht htePrison SystemThe growth of incarceration in the country has many factors; mandatory sentencing, tougher drug charges and the three strike rule paly a big factor. The United States houses the largest amount of prisoners in the world; 2.3 million currently incarcerated. The United States has have half a million more Prisoners than Republic of China.
