I was just wondering with all the people that have problems and break laws due to behavioral disorders etc...when they're sent to a correction facility (is there only one kind?). Do they get corrected and how?
2007-09-07 02:48:48 · 11 answers · asked by Shauno 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Texas Dog eat Dog other states maybee
Illinois Department of Corrections-Mission Statement
"The mission of the Department of Corrections is to protect the public from criminal offenders through a system of incarceration and supervision which securely segregates offenders from society, assures offenders of their constitutional rights and maintains programs to enhance the success of offenders' reentry into society."
The antidote to negative correctional stereotyping is community education. Community education is a long-term, aggressive commitment to high ethical standards and active communication that strives to bring the community into corrections and corrections into the community. There are a variety of community education methods available. These range from the establishment of political and judicial tours of prisons and probation offices to CO visits to elementary school classrooms to talk about the nature of their work. A full discussion of community education approaches is beyond the scope of this article, but they are numerous and practical.
Community education is not a silver bullet, but it is an appropriate method for decertifying negative correctional stereotypes. Education will give the public a more positive perception of corrections and its employees. It is a method to undermine the negative power of popular culture and restore credit to an honorable profession.
2007-09-07 02:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Correctional facilities are always a bit more of a primal environment, in that you are dealing with people who don't follow the rules. As for actual corrections happening, that depends on the jurisdiction, but the trend over the years has been to reject the rehabilitative model and focus more on "warehousing" inmates. In my experience, the "correction" happens when inmates are taken off the commit-crimes-to-feed-drug-habits treadmill and have time to think about their lives and whether this is really the direction they want to be going. But the state does very little to promote rehabilitation.
2007-09-07 03:05:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I could sit my dogs down at the dinner table and explain to them what behaviors are acceptable and what behaviors will absolutely not be tolerated - there really would be no need for me to use physical correction at all. But, I can't. It is my opinion that sometimes physical correction can take the place of those words when communicating with a dog. I can physically communicate to my dog "This is serious - don't EVER let me catch you doing that again or there will be serious consequences." This is damn near impossible to do without physical action because that's what dogs understand. I can't threaten to take away my dog's Nintendo if she doesn't listen, but I can give her leash a snap and remind her that I'm not going to take her crap when she misbehaves.
2016-05-18 21:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by julia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prisons don't exactly work as you would expect them to. They have yet to stop the problem of inmates being gay raped and drug use is rampant in prison. The prisons are just an absolute miserable failure, but nobody ever really asks the questions that need to be asked to get the problems corrected.
2007-09-07 02:54:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Prison system was founded under the pretense of rehab. convivted criminals. But now it is just a business. the more criminals in there the more money is diverted to running them. I say bring capital punishment to all life with out possible parol inmates and release the dogs on the system.
2007-09-07 03:05:09 · answer #5 · answered by bulletbob36 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
At most corrections facilities very little correcting goes on.
2007-09-07 04:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by Kevy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like anything else in life - it is what you make it. Life is dog eat dog, but you have to learn to work inside the boundary of the laws.
2007-09-07 03:12:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prisons are warehouses where society puts people who do things society doesn't like. It's dog eat dog. Nobody gets "corrected".
2007-09-07 02:59:14 · answer #8 · answered by jack of all trades 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is ultimately up to the inmates. If they want to attend drug programs, its there. If they want to go to bible study, its there. They can get their GED, learn to read, financial classes, parenthood for women. You can talk to Forensics. The question is does the inmate want to change?
2007-09-07 02:55:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since many of them commit crimes just to get back in and off the street, one could make the assumption that they are being over-corrected.
2007-09-07 02:53:29 · answer #10 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋