Informative Speech On Jails

As of today I still feel like that one of the hardest positions to work in is corrections. In corrections you have jails, state prisons and federal prisons, but there are different security levels within them. I will be briefly discuss the history of corrections and also give your insight to an employee who works in a prison system here in Atlanta, Georgia and get some personal views in his field of work. First I would like to start off by talking about jail and it is used to house criminals for short periods of time. Jails usually have people who have been convicted to serve a short sentence, or who is waiting on trial, or people who have not yet posted bond and also criminals who have been arrested on suspicion of committing a crime.
Its original purpose was to keep people for awaiting trial. The living conditions back then were horrible, and also the food, and there wasn’t much health care back then. John Howard, who became the sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773, created the Penitentiary Act of 1779. In which it improves the security and improves the sanitary conditions, also required inspections of the system as a whole, and got rid of the fees that were charged to the inmates. Early jails in the United States followed the English model, but instead of cells, inmates were held in one large room and were often fined (Seiter, p. 73, 2011). Individuals who were too poor to pay their fines were held in workhouses until they could work off their debt. Jails and workhouses were two different facilities, but often jails would hold both
Inmates sleep in dormitory housing that is locked and supervised during the night. Use of communal bathrooms is common, and movement around the prison is slightly monitored. Inmates are also given the opportunity to participate in work related programs close to the prison.
Medium Security Prisons usually has a double-fence around the perimeter that includes electronic detection systems and is guarded by patrol officers. Inmates are housed in single-cells with sliding doors that include bathrooms. Inmate’s movement around the prison is strictly monitored, and some are confined to their cells for most of the day.
Supermax Security Prisons holds serial killers or inmates that have belonged to prison gangs. Inmates are confined alone to their cells for most of the day. Interaction between prison staff and inmates is limited. Prison cells have solid doors and a locked portal for food. Access to the prison is through a tunnel.
Administrative Prisons house offenders that are awaiting trial, seriously ill, or highly violent. Due to the diversity of the inmates, all levels of security are