Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review the assigned material in your Stojkovic and Lovell (2019) textbook. Additionally, please read the article Toward a More Constitutional Approach to Solitary Confinement: The Case for Reform. As you recall, Week 1 had you prepare an outline to provide a foundation for this week’s assignment. For this assignment, you will develop your outline into a two-to-three-page paper. The goal is to consider constitutional rights of incarcerated persons and administrative objectives for correctional institutions. Additionally, this paper will also have you consider diversity awareness and cultural sensitivity issues in corrections. You will support your work with two scholarly and/or credible resources, in addition to your textbook. You may use scholarly and/or credible resources included in your Week 1 Issues and Constitutional Rights in Corrections assignment. Address each of the elements below:
Constitutional rights and administration
Explain how constitutional rights of incarcerated persons are balanced with the correctional system functions of the jail or prison.
Explain the mandatory rights that prison administrators must provide incarcerated persons, and how those rights are balanced with the security, safety, court requirements, visits, and other functions of the facility.
Examine a U.S. Supreme Court case (you may use your selected case from your Week 1 Issues and Constitutional Rights in Corrections assignment) that balances correctional administrative goals with the constitutional rights of incarcerated persons.
Diversity and cultural sensitivity issues
Explain at least one cultural sensitivity issue and at least one diversity issue in corrections (you may use the cultural sensitivity issue and diversity issue from your Week 1 Issues and Constitutional Rights in Corrections assignment).
Analyze perspectives on each issue within the context of constitutional rights and administrative functions in corrections.
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The Constitutional Rights and Administrative Goals paper
Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.) resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
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Must use at least three scholarly and/or credible sources in addition to the course text.
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Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
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Examine the pros and cons from four of six major correctional aims or goals of sentencing from your Stojkovic and Lovell (2019) textbook.
MY Disucssion I did.
The six major correctional aims or goals are retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, reintegration, and restoration. (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2019). All six of these have pros and cons to them. The four I am going to use are retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Retribution is a response to criminal misconduct. It goes by the principle of “The punishment should fit the crime” (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2019). This can be by placing the accused in prison by punishing them with deprivation of liberty or by monetary sanctions on the accused. The pros for this treatment works on certain individuals. Every person needs to be treated differently because of their background. The same punishment cannot be used on a person who has a lot of money compared to an individual who doesn’t.
Deterrence is another correctional goal when sentencing individuals. Deterrence is used to send a message to the offender and to society (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2019). By placing sanctions on the offender that fit the criminal offense, can place a perception on society, meaning if you decide to commit criminal behavior this could happen to you. It gives society the idea of free will, to make choices, and to think about their actions. The issue with this it will not resolve the behavior from happening again (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2019). Rehabilitation is an attempt to change the offender’s behavior by programming them to become a law-abiding citizen. It addresses these behaviors by teaching the inmate of other ways to handle situations they might be in. The problem with rehabilitation is that the offender can go back to his old ways when they are placed in a situation without structure. Rehabilitation is a Band-Aid to criminal activity. It teaches them how to overcome their issues but not always resolve it in the future. This is one of the reasons why recidivism is so high.
Reintegration is based on going back into the community or society and being a productive citizen. The downfall with reintegration are similar to the other goals and that is not all offenders or inmates will accept this way of living.
Compare and contrast at least one function of a historical correctional system with at least one function of a contemporary correctional system.
The United States established the prison system in 1891 (“The History of Corrections in America”, 2022). It has gone through many changes since even then. Historical correctional systems are the origins of the correctional system and how they became what they are today. During the middle age’s imprisonment was used to hold offenders for trial. Not for punishment. The contemporary correctional system now uses imprisonment as a punishment to help program the offender back into society or to keep him from breaking the law. An imprisonment is a tool used to help maintain the good order of society.
Describe correctional system functions that relate to (select at least one)
Punishment, rehabilitation, treatment, or supervision.
One of the correctional system functions that I know from my personal experience which relates to one of the functions is supervision. As a correctional officer, I am conducting rounds every thirty minutes not to exceed forty-five minutes within the hour. For example, if it 1600 hrs. I will conduct a round at that time and then another at 1630 hrs. Each round cannot be any longer than forty-five minutes apart. Another one would be when inmates are on work details. As a correctional officer, we have to supervise the inmate and make sure he or she is doing the job correctly and not trying to escape.
References
The History of Corrections in America. National Institute of Corrections. (2022). Retrieved 15 January 2022, from https://nicic.gov/history-corrections-america (Links to an external site.).
Stojkovic, S., & Lovell, R. (2019). Corrections: An Introduction (2nd Ed.). Anderson.
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