The Inmates Essays

In the article “‘I Was Terrified’: Inmates Say They Paid a Brutal Price for a Guard’s Injury” by Tom Robbins. Mr. Robbins talks about the fact that many prisoners get brutally beat by the corrections officers that are on the clock. he talks about many cases during this article and the things the correctional officers did to these inmates. Main Point The main point of this article is to show that many prisoners get beaten by officers everyday some may have a reason but others are just because they

Inmate #11187-424 In 1993, twenty-four year old Piper Kerman flew to Belgium with a suitcase full of money that would be passed off to a West African drug lord. After that happened Kerman left the business and decided to turn herself in. In February of 2004, Kerman was named part of an international drug ring, and she was incarcerated at the age of thirty four. Sentenced to a year at a minimum security women's prison, Kerman set out to blend in the best she could to make her way through her sentence

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards themselves? On the quiet Sunday morning of August 17th, 1971, police officers arrested nine young men as their neighbors watched in disbelief. They were put in handcuffs and directed into police cars, charged with armed robbery and burglary, for which they were not guilty. They were willing participants in a psychological study into the abuse of power in a prison context, orchestrated by the Stanford University psychology department. The prisoners

change in him, and a sincere apology. A prime example of Nobles’ rehabilitation is in his behavioral transformation, from when he first went to prison to his final moments. At the beginning, Nobles was a constant problem. He would: try to avoid other inmates, escape prison, and even put himself in harm’s hands just so that he would be given a shot to harm the guards. Although, just like how Earle described it, “somewhere along the line,

all cells in sight, with every block in sight. This keeps it less hands-on with the inmates, creating a safer environment for the correction officers.

Duties: Officer Kohler performs duties as YKCC: (1) Floor Officer; overseeing both general population housing units and segregation units; (2) Control Room Operator; operating electronic doors, gates, controls entry into the secure facility, and monitors facility video displays, alarms for various mechanical functioning equipment, controls radio communications for the facility, and inputs data in the institutional log; and (3) Booking Officer, processing intake and release functions as well as completes

Can You Hear the Joy? “I am amazed that people can think they know the song- and not know it is a prayer for peace, but we are so bombarded by sound and our attention spans are so short that we now listen only to catchy beginnings,” said Noel Regney, author of the Christmas classic, Do You Hear What I Hear? in a 1985 interview. Regney wrote this song along with his wife, Gloria Shayne, desperately during the brutal peak of the Cold War in October 1962. With the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Mapp Fulton Department of Corrections policy and procedures for visitors and inmates changes from day to day in all correctional facilities. In our recent policy for visitors guidelines for inmate visitation was as follows. Inmate Visitation is Tuesday – Friday, from 8 A. M. to 10:00 P. M. Inmates are allowed one group of up to 6 visitors once every two weeks. Inmates in the Honor Dorms may have two visits per week. Guidelines visitors must adhere to is as follows: visitors will be denied visitation

confinement. Therefore, when an inmate acts out and tries to attack other inmates, and officers then they are put into an individual cell and are isolated from other individuals. One senator had said that the expansion of the use of solitary confinement is an issue. Supermax prisons hold inmates that are considered “the worst of the worst”. Prisoners that are in supermax prisons are isolated 23 hours out of the day. ADX-Florence Colorado has a law suit against them by fellow inmates. According to the speaker

The article I read was the last words of a prison inmate. He has written the letter to his mother., condoning her for his upbringing. How her actions help lead him to the life he had, and the actions he did. It was a great example of the right and wrong parents should teach their parents. As well as an outcry for education to strengthen, both the parent and the child alike. We are the products of our surroundings. If certain people or things are placed and our surroundings the adult life or a human

Inmate-on-Inmate Violence About half of all male inmates incarcerated in state correctional facilities have been convicted of violent offenses, and a large percentage of them have long criminal histories (Seiter, 2008). This sets the stage for a hostile environment. Because of boredom, sexual tensions, and feelings of powerlessness, many inmates engage in violence as a way to mentally escape the reality of prison. Thus, by engaging in proactive aggression, they can focus their attention on fighting

The existence of an inmate subculture greatly impacts the daily lives of inmates because inmates create a subculture to help them cope with doing time. The rules enforced by the inmates are called an inmate code. The inmate code gives the outline of survival for life in prison; these rules result in violence, leadership, and the use of a specific language in the inmate population. For the inmates to survive in prison, they have to adapt to their surroundings, which then creates the subculture. Prisoners

Inmate subculture as defined as the culture that pervades prison and has its own norms, languages, and rules. I don’t think it makes it impossible however I do believe it makes them challenging. The book discusses prisonization as being the assimilation into separate loosely defined culture that pervades prisons. Resulting in an adaptation to prison causing subculture. Which involves learning the statuses and roles of the other prisoners along with the staff and correctional officers. Most prison

Chapter 1: Ghostly Inmates Trapped in a Jail Built in 1885, this Victorian three storey brick building is one of the only three revolving jails left in USA. Also called ‘squirrel cages’, there are 30 in total and resemble pieces of pie in a circular jail. The jail was built on a land that had once been a morgue of an Episcopalian church. Between 1184 and 1969, for a period of 85 years, this jail has been occupied by the superintendents and their families as well as prisoners. Back then, hardened

A Quick Guide About Visiting an Inmate in Federal Prison What You Should Know to Make the Visit Easier Than You Think Visiting an inmate for the first time can be nerve-wracking and complex, especially if you’re clueless of what you need to do or prepare for the visit. Should you just walk in to the jail house and look for your loved one? Should you write a letter? Telephone them, perhaps? All these can do the work, but may come off a bit complicated if not done correctly. Below is the list of

In-processing inmates into prison From October 2013 to December 2014 I worked in Perry Georgia as a correctional officer. There we would receive inmates every Monday and release on Wednesday. When the inmate arrives at Mcever Probation Detention center, they came from the county jail. At this facility they don’t serve much time. The sentence can range from sixty days to 180 days. Those inmates have been to prison, got released and violated their probation. An officer from the sheriffs department

The purpose of this discussion post is to describe patient/inmate experience within the medical unit of the prison system of my employer. Furthermore, explain the nurse’s role, along with the inmate experience. In addition, explain this nurse’s understanding of customer service satisfaction in correlation to reimbursement rates from insurance companies. SCI Retreat prison has established an internal method to communicate with inmates regarding their psychological and medical needs to the correctional

concerning an inmate complaint. He stated on 10/29/2015 night shift Inmate David Anthony Todd F Block/Cell F3 accused Officer James Law of inappropriately touching him. I instruct Cpl. Hussey to escort Inmate Todd out of the housing unit; he and myself exit Tower 2. Inmate Todd and I are in the Bonding Court Room when he gives his account of the incident; no other staff is present at this time. Recreation ended and Officer Law was locking down the inmates on the bottom tier. In Cell F3 Inmate Todd was

Inmates should follow a standard grievance process prior to filing with the courts. The grievance process allow to official to address the inmates’ complaints internally within the correctional facility. This process helps to provide a solution “without violence, direct confrontation, and the inmate going to court to file a formal legal complaint (Cripe, Chapter 5).” With the resolution of the grievance, there will a decrease number of lawsuits filed. If lawsuits are filed, the grievance complaint

The inmate population is out of control. The redesign of prisons in Maine are taking place to expand the capacity of holding more inmates why smaller county and regional jails are shutting down. Many of Maine Inmate population that were housed in the county and regional jails that have since been shut down turned in to a tempera holding cells or reentry programs facilities have been sent to other jails to be housed. Which is fine for the inmate but now cause a whole slew of problems. Like over populations