Prison – Atmore Man Accused of Breaking into JailEssay Preview: Prison – Atmore Man Accused of Breaking into JailReport this essayPrivate PrisonsCriminal Justice 1101 06/T1Troy State UniversityMr. Loyal EvansSeptember 7, 2006Motivator:Atmore man accused of breaking into jailBrewton, AL- Authorities have arrested an Atmore man accused of breaking into theEscambia County Jail to deliver drugs to inmates. John Lee Davis III, 20 was chargedwith the unlawful possession of a controlled substance, promoting prison contraband,possession of marijuana and criminal trespass. Davis remained in jail on a $15,000 bondThursday.Escambia County Sheriff spokesman Maj. Mike Murphy said corrections officersmonitoring security cameras on Aug. 14 noticed Davis scale the exercise yard fenceabout10 p.m.Murphy said officers watched him put items into a bag that had been lowered from abroken window in the jail by inmates. Davis then climbed back over the fence.Officers entered the inmates block where the bag came from and found a methadone pill,Ecstasy pills, and tobacco with rolling papers, cigars and cigars laced with marijuana.After a brief foot chase, officers arrested in a nearby bank parking lot.Another person who dropped off Davis at the jail may face charges as an accomplice,Murphy said.Opening Statement:Within this paper I will attempt to describe some of the ways that Private Prisonsoperate. Also how some Private Prisons get to pick and choose whom that want in theirprisons. As I refer back to the Motivator, we can make the assumption that this is anunder manned jail/ person.Private PrisonsWith the cost of keeping prisoners on the rise, and the prison population continuously growing, some areas have decided to privatize their prisons. Private prisons are runs by companies and their purpose, just like any other company, is to turn a profit. Private prisons have been around for years and have a large number of people for them and against them. Some of the people against them say that they run poor prisons because of their desires to cut costs by any means necessary. However, some people are for them because they say that they are necessary to cut the cost of maintaining prisons to the public. There is no shared consensus on which type of prison is better.
Politics have played a big part in the emergence of private prisons. One of the reasons for this is because of the cost. A political figure who has to spend a large amount of money for corrections might be more inclined to sell off his cities, states, counties, prisons cost in order to save the citizens money. Another reason that politics have played a role is because of overcrowding issues that many prisons have faced. Since the prison population is on the rise and more people are being sentenced to longer terms there is a problem of where to put all of the criminals. With all of the public prisons being filled up, the private ones are being sent prisoners to relieve the overcrowding situation in prisons. This helps the public prisons because they do not have to worry about the issues involved with overcrowding, and it also helps the private prisons because they get to take on more inmates.
Citizens of all backgrounds can easily come across the “Hate and discrimination” in some of the prisons. If you disagree with the prison administration and feel that prison is a bad place to work then don’t worry as it will fix that problem and not kill you, your country.
On our “Political Movements and the Prisoning of People for Economic Determinants” forum, we discussed the topic of the “public prison problem.”
We believe that the fact that it does exist is a fact that needs to be worked out, we need to show people all of the data that supports this, and we are looking at a large number of state-by-state numbers and have a lot of data, which is very limited. For example, state and local data is pretty poor, so we are looking at not one data point, but three different states. So the only way we can really work better and take up that more and more data is to show the public prisons as not one, but two or three, which we are looking at with some of these figures, but it actually looks like this is where two out of the three issues we think we need to work to better address and increase prison employment, are the issues that disproportionately get the most attention at higher budgets. One of the things we did for our “Political Movements and the Prisoning of People for Economic Determinants” forum was talk at an Iowa Center for Economic Policy Research conference, where I asked various people from across the country what concerns they think are most important for increasing prison employment and incarceration rates. Many of them have a pretty strong case or case for the public prison problem, with their strong case or case for the private prisons so we put them together. We have just been able to say that public prisons are an important issue with higher prison employment, or more than just incarceration.
I think public prisons help a lot to make us more comfortable with the idea that the prison system is not like it used to be. Public prisons help change the way we think about the prison system. All of us like to see things from the other side of the world. These things that we have in the news lately that we could easily see the other side of it and make us less fearful of it. Unfortunately I think that it is not so clear why so many of us have seen public prisons as this issue it’s not so clear why it is not so clear why it is too difficult to build more of these correctional facilities and more prisons. I think what’s been most interesting on this issue is that they are increasing the number of public prison inmates. And there is no other way for the United States, the world, or the rest of the developed world, to get them that way. These public prison inmates really don’t like being put in isolation, they do so because if we had more prisons, we would see some of the things we have seen and not so much of the problems we were talking about.
What people are saying is that public prisons are not doing as well in helping people get off. I believe this. And I really think it’s quite interesting that people and their fellow prisoners seem very interested in seeing them doing that and not just having those things. That we are doing more and more of these things. It seems like sometimes, we just don’t know what to do, the only way we can do it is if we do some sort of change. It seems like we are really trying to take this issue
Citizens of all backgrounds can easily come across the “Hate and discrimination” in some of the prisons. If you disagree with the prison administration and feel that prison is a bad place to work then don’t worry as it will fix that problem and not kill you, your country.
On our “Political Movements and the Prisoning of People for Economic Determinants” forum, we discussed the topic of the “public prison problem.”
We believe that the fact that it does exist is a fact that needs to be worked out, we need to show people all of the data that supports this, and we are looking at a large number of state-by-state numbers and have a lot of data, which is very limited. For example, state and local data is pretty poor, so we are looking at not one data point, but three different states. So the only way we can really work better and take up that more and more data is to show the public prisons as not one, but two or three, which we are looking at with some of these figures, but it actually looks like this is where two out of the three issues we think we need to work to better address and increase prison employment, are the issues that disproportionately get the most attention at higher budgets. One of the things we did for our “Political Movements and the Prisoning of People for Economic Determinants” forum was talk at an Iowa Center for Economic Policy Research conference, where I asked various people from across the country what concerns they think are most important for increasing prison employment and incarceration rates. Many of them have a pretty strong case or case for the public prison problem, with their strong case or case for the private prisons so we put them together. We have just been able to say that public prisons are an important issue with higher prison employment, or more than just incarceration.
I think public prisons help a lot to make us more comfortable with the idea that the prison system is not like it used to be. Public prisons help change the way we think about the prison system. All of us like to see things from the other side of the world. These things that we have in the news lately that we could easily see the other side of it and make us less fearful of it. Unfortunately I think that it is not so clear why so many of us have seen public prisons as this issue it’s not so clear why it is not so clear why it is too difficult to build more of these correctional facilities and more prisons. I think what’s been most interesting on this issue is that they are increasing the number of public prison inmates. And there is no other way for the United States, the world, or the rest of the developed world, to get them that way. These public prison inmates really don’t like being put in isolation, they do so because if we had more prisons, we would see some of the things we have seen and not so much of the problems we were talking about.
What people are saying is that public prisons are not doing as well in helping people get off. I believe this. And I really think it’s quite interesting that people and their fellow prisoners seem very interested in seeing them doing that and not just having those things. That we are doing more and more of these things. It seems like sometimes, we just don’t know what to do, the only way we can do it is if we do some sort of change. It seems like we are really trying to take this issue
With the Public prisons filling up and private prisons taking prisoners off of their hands, the issue of cherry picking comes up. Cherry picking is where the private prisons pick the best inmates to take and leave the public prisons with the worst. The way that the private prisons do this is by looking at the prisoners and finding out about their needs. If they can choose between taking a terminally ill cancer patient or a young man who is in peak physical condition and is able to work for them, they take the younger one. The reason for this is because they do not want to have the added medical costs of the cancer patient so the public prison is stuck with the medical bills for him. Private prisons also cherry pick the better behaved prisoners. The reason for this is because better behaved prisoners are less likely to stab or attack guards or other prisoners. By doing this, they are also able to keep the medical costs down by not having much violence and little medical costs due to injuries and maintain “an extraordinary safety record” (Sartre, 2004). This makes the private prisons look good but it also makes the public prisons look bad. “Critics argue that if they were allowed to engage in “cherry-picking” the most well-behaved inmates, they too could have well-run prisons” (Sartre, 2004). All that cherry picking does is continue to make the public prisons spend more money and look worse overall because they get stuck with problem and sickly prisoners.
With the private prisons main goal being to make money, they are sure to cut corners any way that they can. One of the ways that they might be able to cut costs is through their staff. One of the potential problems concerning staff at private correctional facilities is the training of their correctional officers. If an officer is not fully trained, then he or she might face a problem and not know how to handle it. In many other fields that would not be a problem, but in corrections it is a big problem. According to the Corrections Yearbook for 2000 [the]