Goals of Incarceration

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Custodial Model

Strict security, order, discipline

-max security

Rehabilitation Model

Emphasizes treatment programs to help imprisoned people adress the personal problems and issues that led them to commit crimes

Reintergration Model

correctional model that emphasizes maintaining individual ties to family and community as methods of reform recognizing offender will be returning to society

• Goal- reduce recidivism

Factors that make governing prisons different from administering other public institutions

1. The defects of total power

2. The limitation on the rewards and punishments officials can use

3. The co-operation of correctional officers by inmates through exchange relationships

4. The strength of inmate leadership

Defects of total power

• Need to find means other than force to maintain order- can escalate

• Ratio of residents to officers is 40-1 can be overpowered

rewards and punishments

• offer cooperative prisoners rewards such as choice job asignments, residence in the honor unit, and favorable parole reports

• Those who dont break rules receive good time

Gaining Cooperation: Exchange Relationships

• Tolerate minor rule infractions

• cant be too cooperative as can raise blackmailing into smuggling contraband and committing other illegal acts

Leadership within prison populations

• Leaders served as the essential communications link between the staff and residents

• They could aquire info and gain aces to higher officials

1 Self defense

If officials are threatened with physical attack they may use level of force that is reasonable to protect themselves from harm

2 defense of third persons

As in self defense- an officer may use force to protect an inmate or another officer. Again, only reasonably necessary force may be used

3 Upholding prison rules

If prisoners refuse refuse to obey prison rules, officers may need to use force to maintain security and safety

ex:If a resident refuse to return to a cell, using handcuffs and forcefully transferring the individual may be necessary

4 Prevention of crime

Force may be used to stop a crime such as theft or destruction of property from being committed

5 prevention of escapes

officers may use force to prevent escapes because they threaton the wellbeing of society and order within correctional institutions. Some agencies limit the use of deadly force to individuals thought dangerous, whearas other require warning shots

Inmate code or convict code

the value and norms of the prison social

system that define the inmate’s idea of the model prisoner

Doing time

view their prison term as a brief, inevitable break in

their criminal careers, a cost of doing business

• Have Relationships

• Have ties to community

Gleaning

try to take advantage of prison programs to better

themselves and improve their prospects for success after

release

• Libraries, religious groups, 

• Major transformations in prison- trying to move away from prior criminal lifestyle

Jailing

cut themselves off from the outside world and try to

construct a life in prison

• Dont have ties

• Seek status power and control in prison structure

Disorganized criminal

describes people who cannot develop

any of the other three orientations. May be of low intelligence or

afflicted with psychological or physical disabilities

Women subculture

prisons for women are less violent, involve les gang activities, and lack racial tension; however, the respondents indicated that their interpersonal relationships may be less stable and familial than in the past