CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS (INMATE IDLENESS IDLENESS)

Correctional Institutional Settings (Inmate idleness Idleness)

Abstract

This paper talks about idleness of inmate idleness as the security concerns in prisons. Overall, majority (56.5%) of prisoners in federal institutions are white, 40.3% are black, 1.6% are Asian, and 1.6% are Native American. About one-third (32.1%) are known to be of Hispanic ethnic origin. Almost 30% of all prisoners are foreign nationals, with more than 16% from Mexico alone. Since 1980s, all are adults or juveniles who have been charged as adults. There are no juvenile facilities in federal system. Women now make up 6.8% of total population, which is greater than their proportion in state prisons.

Correctional Institutional Settings

Introduction

The analysis of local prisons from an organizational perspective has received limited attention in literature. Moreover, there has been very little study of relationships or interactions between various types of jail employees. This analysis assessed influence organizational communications have on inmate idleness management. This study utilized the sample of correctional employees from the large jail in Midwest. (David 2006)

Descriptive and quantitative techniques allowed the concise examination of data. The findings show that most employees believe that correctional officers are effective inmate idleness managers while they concurrently report that communications with administration and social service staff are ineffective. This analysis provides preliminary information about relationship between organizational communications and its relevance to jail operations. (Kosof 1984)

Purpose of Study

The purpose of this study is to find out whether idleness of inmate idleness is the security concern in prisons or not? Leavenworth was followed by Atlanta in 1902 and then, in 1909, by McNeil Island in Washington State, which had originally been founded as the territorial jail in 1875. These three institutions made up entire system for many years until new laws, such as Volstead Act in 1918, which introduced Prohibition, caused federal population to grow exponentially. (American Correctional Association 1991)

The prisons of United States, generally speaking, are giant crucibles of crime. Into them are thrown helter-skelter old, young, guilty, innocent, diseased, healthy, hardened and susceptible; there to be mixed with further ingredients of filth, vermin, coid, darkness, stagnant air, overcrowding and bad plumbing; and all brought to the boil by fiies of complete idleness. (Barnes 1959)

Literature

Federal Prisons Today

Although prisons have existed in North America since colonial era, they have received relatively little attention from policymakers or criminologists until quite recently. This obscurity is surprising, given that prisons exist in virtually every county across United States. Thompson and Mays have argued that if prisons were “scarce and unimportant institutions, their complex collection of problems could be ignored indefinitely. ” However, “Jails are neither few in number nor insignificant; in fact, quite contrary is true of jails” (Thompson and Mays, 1988563). Conditions prevailing in prisons throughout United States were documented as early as 1923, when Fishman reported that prisons were horrible settings, which made virtually no beneficial contribution to criminal justice, let alone to society. (Schafersman 1991)

Although clearly there have been improvements since 1923, “their scope has been minimal, their distribution sparse, ...