Prisoners with Special Needs
Prisoners with Special Needs
Melanie Di Frisco
CJA/234
Sherri Webster
February 16, 2015
Prisoners with Special Needs
There are always going to be prisoners that will have various special needs that cause for the acknowledgement of some particular occupants. The correctional establishments are completely conscious of these needs. The facility as a whole need to be more aware of how to handle appropriately these specific inmates and still handle the necessary normal functions and proper correctional protocol. Having special needs offenders in a regular prison have a somewhat compromised privacy. They may share certain characteristics of the other inmates but in reality they are very vulnerable to the prison and they will always stand out in the crowd. Many of these special needs may not only be physical or mental other forms of special needs can be substance abuse and medically ill such as HIV/AIDS. All prisons are required to deal with sickness but why so limited. All the prisons and jails have the same intake protocol. This is where all prisoner list their medical requirements and special forms of care. These orders should be how they are housed in order to help the correctional officers know what they are dealing with first-hand.
When prisons get money or funding from the American prisons that receive funding from the state or federal organizations, they are required to accommodate for the needs of the offenders with specific requirements. This does not have been done by the controlling entities or the greater part of local jails. The American Government required the federal governments to develop state and local mental and emotional medical centers in conflict that these special needs inmates should be treated case by case and that they need to be under medical care and not in prisons for crimes they have committed. In California the State Senate was compelled to interfere in 1973 and discover resolution for the crisis of accruing
Melanie Di Frisco
CJA/234
Sherri Webster
February 16, 2015
Prisoners with Special Needs
There are always going to be prisoners that will have various special needs that cause for the acknowledgement of some particular occupants. The correctional establishments are completely conscious of these needs. The facility as a whole need to be more aware of how to handle appropriately these specific inmates and still handle the necessary normal functions and proper correctional protocol. Having special needs offenders in a regular prison have a somewhat compromised privacy. They may share certain characteristics of the other inmates but in reality they are very vulnerable to the prison and they will always stand out in the crowd. Many of these special needs may not only be physical or mental other forms of special needs can be substance abuse and medically ill such as HIV/AIDS. All prisons are required to deal with sickness but why so limited. All the prisons and jails have the same intake protocol. This is where all prisoner list their medical requirements and special forms of care. These orders should be how they are housed in order to help the correctional officers know what they are dealing with first-hand.
When prisons get money or funding from the American prisons that receive funding from the state or federal organizations, they are required to accommodate for the needs of the offenders with specific requirements. This does not have been done by the controlling entities or the greater part of local jails. The American Government required the federal governments to develop state and local mental and emotional medical centers in conflict that these special needs inmates should be treated case by case and that they need to be under medical care and not in prisons for crimes they have committed. In California the State Senate was compelled to interfere in 1973 and discover resolution for the crisis of accruing
References: Ammerman, R., Ott, P. J., & Tarter, R. E. (1999). Prevention and Societal Impact of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis. Doris J. James and Lauren E. Glaze, "Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates," Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 2006, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/mhppji.htm (accessed September 21, 2009).