Prison Rehabilitation Analysis

Various states are taking steps to improve conditions, yet many believed it is too expense to spend the budget on (Glazer, 2017). Reform has been seen in prisons, such as, the one where Dan Pacholke, a prison administrator, works. He stated “We met violence with force and we met chaos with chaos” (Pacholke, 2014). After using these methods for years, seeing repeated offense, an employee said “your good at putting out fires, but have you thought about how to prevent them” (Pacholke, 2014). After this statement he started to seek to use new methods to the way he ran his prison. He found ways to give his prisoners meaning to their daily actions, increasing education within his prison and starting projects from his prisoners. However, few prisoners in the United States are offered therapeutic
He saw rates in a decrease of violence and gang activity inside the prison. The idea of of prevention rather than reaction is a theory more prisons should be taking. However, currently, that is not the norm. Dealing with mentally ill, especially to help prevent the disorder before the conditions serial out of control could not only save the country money in the long run, but also save the prisoners themselves. By training prison administration and workers how to deal correctly with prisoners with disorders and how to adequately handle a situation, current conditions could be improved for everyone. By working to solve the problem of the inmates making prison about rehabilitation instead of a punishment, as it had become today, there could be a decrease in return offenders. Such a treating a prisoners mental condition instead over medication. Often medications are provided to control the prisoners, rather than to treat the underlying conditions. The over medication often leads to addiction and a reliance on the the medication. The reliance upon release of the inmate cause those who are unable to obtain their medications, can cause them to act out or search for the same