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Jail and Prisons

This document discusses different types of prisons and jails. It explains that jails are for short term stays and are run by local jurisdictions, while prisons are for longer sentences and run by state or federal governments. It describes security levels in prisons from supermax, which use solitary confinement, to medium and minimum security. Medium security prisons hold 35% of inmates and minimum holds 49%. Minimum security resembles a college campus more than a prison. Total institutions, like prisons, tightly control all daily activities to serve the larger institutional goal. Jails separate criminals from the public for safety and aim to correct inmates and deter crime.

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Jail and Prisons

This document discusses different types of prisons and jails. It explains that jails are for short term stays and are run by local jurisdictions, while prisons are for longer sentences and run by state or federal governments. It describes security levels in prisons from supermax, which use solitary confinement, to medium and minimum security. Medium security prisons hold 35% of inmates and minimum holds 49%. Minimum security resembles a college campus more than a prison. Total institutions, like prisons, tightly control all daily activities to serve the larger institutional goal. Jails separate criminals from the public for safety and aim to correct inmates and deter crime.

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Running head: JAILS AND PRISONS

Jails and Prisons Cynthia Sonoff CJS/200 Trevor Wingard

JAILS AND PRISONS

Jails and Prisons

Jails and prisons are the places, in which individuals are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Jails are used for short term stay whereas a prison is for a long term stays. Jail is used by local jurisdictions in countries and cities, whereas prison is administered by the state or federal government.

In super-max prisons, prisoners are generally allowed out of their cells for only one hour a day as they are kept in solitary confinement. They receive their meals through ports, also known as "chuck holes" in the doors of their cells. When super-max inmates are allowed to exercise, this may take place in a small, enclosed area where the prisoner will exercise alone. Maximumsecurity prisons are designed with full attention to security and surveillance. In these institutions, inmates' lives are programmed in a militaristic fashion to keep them from escaping or from harming themselves or the prison staff. Medium-security prisons hold about 35 percent of the prison populations and minimum-security prisons hold about 49 percent inmates at mediumsecurity prisons have committed less serious crimes and are not considered high risks for escaping or causing harm. A minimum-security prison seems at first glance to be more like a college campus than an incarceration facility. Most of the inmates at these institutions are firsttime offenders, nonviolent, and well behaved and include a high percentage of white-collar criminals.

Total institution means all aspects of life are conducted in the same place. Each activity is carried out in the company of a large group. Activities are tightly scheduled. Daily tasks all come together to serve a larger goal of the institution, which is done in all prisons.

Jails play a major role in the justice system. Jail separated criminals from public, to make them safe. Jail gives one a chance to make ones self-corrected, and makes people take this as an example and they take lesson from it.

JAILS AND PRISONS

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