Exactly *how* does a correctional facility "correct" its customers?

Answer 1

Customers, LOL... Well, the basic idea is that if you have to be locked up away from your friends and family for some time, that you'll behave when they let you out... They also do stuff like classes and offer them college so they can turn to working instead of crime when they get out (hopefully)...

Answer 2

OK, if you really want to compare the prison system to a private business:

A correctional facility isn't supposed to correct its customers. The "customers", by the way, are the law-abiding taxpayers - the criminals who wind up there are defective "products" of society which are sent in to get fixed. It's a sound concept, I suppose. Society created them, so society must bear the cost of correcting them. Unfortunately, so-called correctional facilities do very little to actually correct anybody, and usually just end up turning inmates into better criminals.

Answer 3

That really all depends on the type of crime that the person was doing when they were sentenced & the facility that they are sent to to serve out their sentences. For me, it showed me where I was headed if I continued to hang around with the same group of people! When I was locked up & could not have contact with the outside world, I gained a better appreciation for the freedoms that I took for granted before I was incarcerated! Little things like having a choice of your favorite brand of hair shampoo disappear when you are in jail. This was enough to correct my warped ways of living & I finally straightened out my life & never went back. It isn't always that easy for some of the other people who go to jail because many of them never had a good foundation to begin with, so they don't know any other way of life!

Answer 4

Having a loved one who is incarcerated, I can honestly say that I don't think the corrections dept rehabilitates the person if the person doesn't want to be rehabilitated. Motivation has to come from within and if the person doesn't want to better themselves after they have been incarcerated then the tax payers wasted their money and the inmate has basically wasted their life while they were incarcerated.
Our facilities offer various programs and classes for inmates to attend...not that they are only good, but they do offer somethings....again, I don't think the system corrects the person, I think the person has to correct themself....

Answer 5

Customers? They used to be called Penal Institutions to emphasize the punishment aspects of incarceration, that verbiage went out of favor when it was PC to re-train the inmates to return to society, and they became Correctional Institutions. Then people found out that even after giving the inmates programs for getting their GED and job training that the recidivism rate remained the same........waiting for next PC idea to take hold.

So the answer to your question is most penal institutions have job training and education available for inmates who want to try to better their situation. Many inmates now have advanced degrees as a result of these programs. That probably accounts for the 850% increase in inmates filing lawsuits (I personally love the lawsuit regarding the inmate not receiving the type of peanut butter he preferred)........links below

Hope this helps

Answer 6

it is not, it relatively is giving them precisely what they choose. I won't even get into the constitutional and person perfect violations that this 'mandate' commits. yet from a marketplace view component, there isn't something in the bill that makes the insurers bypass the further gross sales returned to the consumer in the kind of decrease rates. rates won't circulate down in any respect in the long-term. difficulty-loose economics; in case you prefer to decrease the fee you will desire to decrease call for ( cost being a function of furnish and demand). you may not decrease expenditures by making use of increasing call for it is moronic.

Answer 7

It is not the facility that rehabbilatates,it is the the inmate himself that does that if he can't then he becomes a lifer or just a in and outer,only one thing that will keep him free is he himself

Answer 8

It doesn't, the "progressive" liberal thinking is that we need to lock these people away to teach them a lesson, but we have to be nice to them at the same time. We have gotten so far away from the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause in the Constitution that we cater to their every whim for fear of another lawsuit. The inmates just learn how to graduate from a petty criminal to a hardcore thug. In the end they aren't corrected at all, and just become more likely to perpetrate a crime.

Answer 9

A lot of times it doesn't admittedly. They go back to the same behavior once they get out. Prisons in general do offer a lot of programs though for offenders who WANT to change. GED, skilss training, drug&alcohol classes, etc...

Answer 10

The first part is it is a tool to get these people who commit crimes to realize they did wrong. They are told when to get up, when to eat, when to go to bed. Their life is spelled out for them and the fact they have little or no freedom, should get them to turn around.

Nationally, the rate of repeat offenders, is about 65%, except in Arizona. They have a Sheriff who puts them in tents, with fans, pink and black stripped jump suits, and the only thing they have on cable TV is Weather Channel, PBS, Disney and one channel where they play self building tapes.

They have about 23% rate of repeat offenders. No system is perfect, but the most important part is, if you do the crime, be ready to do the time. Once out, keep you knose clean or go back to jail.