Corrections Trend
Corrections Trend Evaluation
Bebe Washington
CJA/394
February 15, 2012
UOP
Corrections Trend Evaluation
In this paper the objectives that will be addressed are past, present and future trends of corrections. Also, analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators as well as the roles and issues of alternate correction systems as a developing trend.
In today’s society the jails and prison pretty much function with the same protocol. In the past the history of the State prisons began at the Walnut Street Jail in 1790, it was the actually first American penitentiary located in Philadelphia. Punishments such as the pillory and hanging were carried out in public. In the past, the Old Stone Jail in Philadelphia held old and young, black and white, men and women all together. In Chester County, the English custom of charging for various other services was also in force, fees for locking and unlocking cells, food, heat, clothing, and for attaching and removing irons incident to a court appearance (Prison Society, 2012).
The act of 1790 brought about sweeping reforms in the prison and authorized a penitentiary house with 16 cells to be built in the yard of the jail to carry out solitary imprisonment with labor for “brutal offenders.” As time and years went by mishandlings and joblessness stopped. The Walnut Street jail became a showplace, separating the different sorts of prisoners and workshops providing useful trade instruction. The more reforming of the jails and prisons occurred the more they got crowded (Prison Society, 2012).
In corrections today there will always be thoughts about the future of corrections and the institutional management. The criminal justice system grows quickly as well as the prison and jail with inmates. In today’s society the corrections are facing cutbacks and layoffs, there are twice as many dangerous criminals’ within the prison system, the corrections workers have to deal with the lack of health insurance
Bebe Washington
CJA/394
February 15, 2012
UOP
Corrections Trend Evaluation
In this paper the objectives that will be addressed are past, present and future trends of corrections. Also, analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators as well as the roles and issues of alternate correction systems as a developing trend.
In today’s society the jails and prison pretty much function with the same protocol. In the past the history of the State prisons began at the Walnut Street Jail in 1790, it was the actually first American penitentiary located in Philadelphia. Punishments such as the pillory and hanging were carried out in public. In the past, the Old Stone Jail in Philadelphia held old and young, black and white, men and women all together. In Chester County, the English custom of charging for various other services was also in force, fees for locking and unlocking cells, food, heat, clothing, and for attaching and removing irons incident to a court appearance (Prison Society, 2012).
The act of 1790 brought about sweeping reforms in the prison and authorized a penitentiary house with 16 cells to be built in the yard of the jail to carry out solitary imprisonment with labor for “brutal offenders.” As time and years went by mishandlings and joblessness stopped. The Walnut Street jail became a showplace, separating the different sorts of prisoners and workshops providing useful trade instruction. The more reforming of the jails and prisons occurred the more they got crowded (Prison Society, 2012).
In corrections today there will always be thoughts about the future of corrections and the institutional management. The criminal justice system grows quickly as well as the prison and jail with inmates. In today’s society the corrections are facing cutbacks and layoffs, there are twice as many dangerous criminals’ within the prison system, the corrections workers have to deal with the lack of health insurance
References: Prison Administrators Resist Change. (2009). Retrieved from http://prisnonnewblog.com Prison Society. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.prisonsociety.org/about/history.shtml U.S. Census 2000. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.allcounties.org/uscensus/368_state_and_federal_correctional_facilities_inmates.html