In 2015, Joyce Mitchell pleaded guilty to promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. Ms. Mitchell was engaged in sexual relationships with two inmates, David Sweat and Richard Matt, while simultaneously plotting to help them escape in order to kill her husband. Being that Ms. Mitchell was an employee of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, this case raises enormous suspicions about the facilities culture, operation, ethical training, and mental health screening. Ethical training has become " hot," issue in the criminal justice as more individuals are paying close attention to the actions of the system. Thus, circumstances like that of Joyce Mitchell must be analyzed to improve the system.
Especially in areas like Baltimore, where female correctional officers make up seventy five percent of workers. The problem with female correctional officers is they are being used and manipulated by inmates and smuggle in contraband from the outside. Inmates prey on young officers, they look for females with low self-esteem and confidence. In addition, it is also noted that in Baltimore sixty to seventy-five percent of female officers have inappropriate sexual relationships and bring drugs and cellphones to gang members. Even though the relationships between inmates and guards appear to be consensual they are overall still initiated by the gang members.
People who are incarcerated does not have a choice from whom they seek healthcare service from when it comes to their medical needs. Their circumstance should not dictate if they are entitled to quality ethical service or not. According to Findlaw.com Inmates are entitled to medical care and attention as needed to treat illnesses whether it be on a long or short term basis. In our facility alone we receive over 150 greviances a month with inmates complaining of not having their needs entirely met due to correctional regulations and poor service. The most ethical practices to help combat these issues is to promote patient advocacy, ensure accessibility to care, and to always be respectful.
Barbara Sorensen PY101 Ethics Analysis 2/14/2017 Zimbardo Prison Study Ethics Analysis Standard 1: 3.05 Avoiding Harm a) One of the standards that was violated in this video was 3.05; Avoiding Harm. This standard states that psychologist will take precautionary action, so they will not harm their patients or anyone they work with. They will also work towards minimizing harm where it is seen, but can be avoided. b) Through the whole general video many of the the prisoners accepted physical and psychological abuse. The most interesting part is that the experiment not only impacted the prisoner but Zimbardo too.
Women of color are the most targeted, prosecuted, and imprisoned women in the country and rapidly increasing their population within the prison systems. According to Nicholas Freudenberg, 11 out of every 1000 women will end up incarcerated in their lifetime, the average age being 35, while only five of them are white, 15 are Latinas, and 36 are black. These two groups alone make up 70 percent of women in prison, an astonishing rate compared to the low percentage comprise of within the entire female population in the country (1895). Most of their offenses are non-violent, but drug related, and often these women come from oppressive and violent backgrounds, where many of their struggles occurred directly within the home and from their own family.
1. The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo Zimbardo’s social experiment in 1971, The Stanford Experiment, is heavily criticised on ethical grounds it provides a valuable insight into the “interpersonal dynamics which occur within the prison environment,” (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973, p. 69). The experiment which randomly divided participants between prison guards and prisons dramatically demonstrated over a six day period the demonization that occurs within the prison system, as “the majority had indeed become prisoners or guards, no longer able to clearly differentiate between role playing and self,” (Zimbardo, 2001, p. 274). Whilst Zimbardo’s experiment is recognised as one of the first versions of “Reality TV” due to inclusion
Assignment #1 Review questions Chap. 1 p. 26: 1. A single standard of ethics cannot be applied to all criminal justice agencies. The world is too complex to legislate morality and ethics. The cultures that make up each part of the world are not the same.
A prison and a jail has many visitors coming in and out of it gates, from loved ones to friends wanting to see the well-being of the inmate. Before any visitors can view the inmate they must go through a series of searches to ensure contraband doesn’t enter. Many of the prisons don’t allow the general public to enter the building with a cellphone. They ask the public to leave there personal items in their car. Officers make the visitors walk thru a metal visual detector.
Female arrestees acknowledged as having drug problems are more probable than men to have received drug treatment, spend more money on drugs, report recent use of more harmful drugs and are more often referred to a drug rehabilitation unit (Trueman, 2015). Violent crimes are often committed by women as well. Violence is most common when the victim is male, since he may resist more than a woman (Pollock, 2002). Half of the women incarcerated for homicide or murder related charges are serving time for that offense and that offense was their only offense. Research also suggests that after the arrest, women are more likely than men to be warned and are less likely to have their cases be charged.
Davis specifies that the lack of accountability for inappropriate behavior is caused by faulty administrative action as she explains, “Grievance or investigatory procedures, where they exist, are often ineffectual...” (78). Since women’s prisons were established, sexual abuse has been used as a form of punishment, although this is not formally acknowledged by prison officials, it is undeniable that women’s prison staff more than oftentimes engage in sexual
The term "Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) is used to express the rapid expansion of the United States inmate population. The prison industrial complex (PIC) is an expression used to describe the connection between the interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment the resolution to economic, social and political problems. The P.I.C helps to maintain the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic, social and other privileges. Power is collected and maintained through the PIC in many ways, including creating mass media images that reinforce the stereotypes associated with people of color, less fortunate people, homosexual people, immigrants, youth, elderly and other oppressed communities. These stereotypes imply that those who are associated with these groups of society are criminals, corrupt, delinquent, deviant, etc.
There are many indicators of the huge impact in disparities in sentencing women as compared to men and more so when it revolves around minorities ( race and class). Though there are lower crime rates among women as compared to men, there are significant disparities which tend to show favouritism to women. Research has shown that men get 63 per cent longer custodial sentences than women. In addition, it is twice more likely to have women get non custodial sentences even after conviction. However, as mentioned the disparities are more profound when issues of race and class are intertwined in the sentencing.
A higher proportion of women prisoners are on remand
Norms and ideologies on who and what women were perceived to be include: the belief that women were less dangerous, less blameworthy, less likely to recidivate, and more likely to be deterred than men. This perceived notion of women's personality is further backed up by statistics that show women commit fewer crimes, as well as less severe and violent crimes in comparison to males (Doerner and Demuth
Although they are more lenient to the females, females still endure prejudice and difficulties in the criminal justice system. Female’s offenders commit numerous various types of crime in society but frequently recognize as less of a trouble. The three major crimes that the females commonly perpetrate and have a high rate of incarcerated are violent, property, and drug crimes. The incarceration percentage of the violent crimes is at 37.1 percent.
