Bartlett State Jail Case Study

This article discusses how badly the corrections officers treat the inmates at Mid-State Correctional Facility in New York. The inmates are beaten and penetrated by foreign objects by the officers that are supposed protect them. Not only are they mistreating the inmates but they are getting away with it as well. There are many instances and examples of inmates from this specific facility, Mid-State Correctional Facility, getting beaten by guards. These allegations of brutality against the inmates are going more viral now than ever.

Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, appellant, Robert Eugene Caldwell (“Caldwell”), was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary. The jury, however, acquitted Caldwell of seven other charges. For each of Caldwell’s conspiracy convictions, he received 15 years’ incarceration with all but five years suspended, and five years of supervised probation. On appeal, Caldwell presents three issues for our review, which we rephrase and reorder as follows: 1. Whether the circuit court erred in denying Caldwell’s motions for a mistrial.

On March 15, 2017, at 9:10 p.m at the California Correctional Center located in Susanville,CA a riot occured resulting in the injuries of six prison guards and one inmate. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stated that an inmate had assaulted an officer on Wednesday in the dining hall of the Prison, around 30 other prisioners rushed to the scene and began assaulting the officers with physical force and the use food trays against the officers. Officers regained control of the dining hall with the use of physical force, pepper spray and non-lethal projectiles to overcome the riot in minutes. Their were four correcitonal officers who were treated for minor cuts and bruises and a couneslor was treated for

On May3 the Birmingham jail was filling rapidly and Commissioner Connor, made changes to police tactics to keep protesters businesses downtown. While children were marching and singing Connor ordered that Birmingham’s firefighters uses hoses, set at a very high level to be turned on the children marching. The power of the hoses ripped young boy’s shirts off, and pushed young women on top of cars. The blast of the water rolled children down the streets nd sidewalks. As children were being hosed upon bystanders began to throw rocks and bottles at law enforcement.

One may easily go past the Arlington County Detention Facility without noticing a multistory building that has reflective windows is actually a jail that has 200 employees that secure and hold a typical inmate population of approximately 500 inmates (slightly larger male-to-female population). Burrowed between multiple office and apartment buildings, is the jail located at 1435 N. Courthouse Road, and it is conveniently situated within a block from the Courthouse Metro station and the courthouse where the criminals are tried. On a recent tour of the facility with my classmates and I took on October 15, 2015, we got the opportunity to tour the jail in its entirety, learn about the booking and jail assignment process, while experiencing the daily

On April 21st, 1930, Ohio State Penitentiary, which was built in Ohio’s capital, Columbus, in 1834, caught fire and killed hundreds of inmates. When returning for the night, they discovered that a fire was started within cell blocks G and H. It was only after the fire had been doused, that everyone had realized that the scaffolding, on the outside walls of those cell blocks, was what had caught fire. At the time, the prison was known for its poor conditions. The prison was only meant to hold 1,500 people, but at the time of the fire, it was housing 4,300 inmates. This disaster goes down in history as the worst fire at any prison in the United States.

Firstly, I will discuss their set ups. The Miami County Jail (MCJ) was built on a setup nicknamed the “pod” setup. This setup is where personnel will sit in a control room with all cells in sight, with every block in sight. This keeps it less hands-on with the inmates, creating a safer environment for the correction officers.

Officers who are left with lack of sleep, lack of departure from the job, lack of time off, and lacking personal time are at greater risk of accidents, injury, and liability due to the stressors of the job and interaction with the socially unstable, mental handicapped, aggressive, and assaultive inmates. The failure of the Department of Corrections to abide by or even attempt to align “suggested” and determined manning to prevail makes each facility hazardous to inmates and staff alike. With this said, it stands to reason that when the State of Alaska, Department of Corrections allows a known hazard to exist and persist, while a risk assessment has been accomplished and given to the State of Alaska in the form of a “CGL Analysis”, the state had been placed on notice (CGL, 2016). To combat this continued hazard, it is proposed that every event that an Officer is “Held Over”, “Ordered into Mandatory Overtime”, “Refused a Requested Leave”, or “Ordered to work on a shift that is Undermanned according to the CGL Analysis”, the Premium Pay that will include “Hazard Pay” will be calculated for every hour worked in that

Throughout the history, when states were at war with each other, many soldiers were captured by the opposite side and put into war prisons. The captured soldiers were unable to grasp how their freedom was suddenly snatched away from them in the process of serving their country, and resulted in them becoming prisoners of war. During the bloody battles of the Civil War, numerous Union and Confederate soldiers were captured by the opposite sides and became prisoners of war. Approximately 194,000 Union soldiers were captured by the Confederacy, out of which 30,000 died during captivity. The ones who somehow managed to stay alive in the dreaded conditions of the Southern prisons suffered from lack of food and medical care.

In order for it to be effective one must learn the tips and tricks of the veterans of the job, not just using knowledge from the seven weeks of training. Although that will be effective, I feel as if personal experiences are more efficient and useful in succeeding in the job. “You’re going to learn, CO, that some things they taught you in the Academy can get you killed.” (99) Conover realizes that many officers do not follow the rules that were instructed in the Academy. In order to be a strong and acknowledged correctional officer one must bend the rules a bit to get the inmates to comply.

Some of these temporary officers were not interested in making corrections as a career that resulted in high turnover rates. These guards were paid at the lower end of the salary scale and a lack of advancement opportunities that brought dissatisfactions. In order to correct this structural defect, prison officials should offer higher salaries, clear and concise advancement opportunities. Using these techniques, prison official would influence guards to remain longer and have pride in their

In order to do this they need to make new centers to help prisoners inside better themselves. In Alabama prisons may soon shut down 14 of its prisons for overcrowding, neglect, and violence in the state’s correction systems. In the prison St. Clair Holman in Alabama the prison system makes prisoners act different. There is no safety, security or supervision. “We have people being killed, sexually assaulted, raped, stabbed on daily basis at St. Clair, Holman, and multiple facilities; it’s a systemwide problem,” said Charlotte Morrison, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), which represents Alabama prisoner.”

Provide training to all prison staff on mental health issues. Training should reinforce staff understanding of mental disorders, raise awareness on human rights, challenge stigmatizing attitudes and encourage mental health promotion for guards and inmates. In addition, prison health workers need more specialized skills to identify and manage the prisoners’ mental health. According to HM Prison Probation & Service (2018), prison staff ‘keep those sentenced to prison in custody, helping them lead law-abiding and useful lives, both while they are in prison and after they are released.’ It believes that prison staff will play a huge part in the life of an offender, helping them to learn and develop new skills (HM Prison Probation & Service,

Each individual must accept and work towards the institutions goal of care and custody of inmates, not holding to bad habits and workarounds of “seasoned” staff which create confusion and division among staff and administration, therefore causing chaos and confusion among staff and inmates. Likewise, Administration must be willing to “step forth when colleagues are out of line” (Bartollas, 2013). Although there are other areas which the needs of professionalism in corrections need to be addressed, these are the key factors in my opinion which if change is brought about, would address the issue of professionalism as a

“Correction officers supervise convicted offenders when they are in jail, in prison, or in the community on probation or parole” (National Center for Victims of Crime, 2008). When a defendant is found guilty, they are usually sentenced to time in jail, houses of correction, prisons, probation, or parole. When they are sentenced to time in prison, it is the responsibility of corrections and their officers to ensure that the defendant is treated humanely. It is also their job to make sure that the correctional facility that is holding the offender is safe and secure.