Rehabilitation

Assignment: Rehabilitation Paper

CJS/230

October 26,2013

Mr. Jerry Shoate

Prisoner rehabilitation has been started to reduce the incidence of recidivism. Prisoner rehabilitation reduces the needs for prisoners reoffending. There are several method or discipline of prisoner’s rehabilitation. Some prisons Some prisons provide faith based prisoner rehabilitation where religion is used to encourage inmates to adapt some moral values for example, Idaho Correctional Institute introduced prison-based dog training program called Inmate Dog Alliance Project Idaho where prisoners receive training to train dogs from animal shelters. The prisoners learn a joy; a compassion and responsibility that can come from raising and training a dog, as well as skills that can help prisoners find a job when he or she is released from prison. Inmate drug abuse treatment focuses on simultaneously reducing offender substance abuse and criminal behavior. (Inside Prison, 2011) Some early eighteenth and twentieth century prisons were proponents or rehabilitation polices. Early the early 1820’s American prisons such as those at Auburn, Ossining and Pittsburgh implemented rehabilitation principles. The early programs isolated convicts in order to remove him or her from the temptations that had driven him or her to crime and to provide each inmate with time to reflect on his or her deeds. This belief that all convicts would return to his or her inherently good natures when removed from the corrupting influences of society gave way more aggressive forms of treatment informed by the rise of social scientific studies into criminal behavior. (Smith, 2008)

Prison rehabilitation affects prisons in a variety of way (1). Rehabilitation programs give the prisoners some incentives to be a better person and make better choices when he or she is released back into society. Rehabilitation may be defined as planned intervention that attempts to change or alter the aspects that cause the...