Corrections Systems and Processes

CORRECTIONS SYSTEMS AND

PROCESSES

Corrections Systems and Processes

Mitchell Adair

Introduction to Criminal Justice: CJA 105-AUO A01

Argosy University

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When defendants who are found guilty, they taken to what is referred to as the most isolated part of the criminal justice system. For the most part much of it physically isolated; the prisons have walls that are very thick and that are locked, and they are usually built in areas that are rural , areas that are remote from the communities in which the guilty defendants lived and far from the courts where their sentence was imposed. (Houston & Stefanoviae, 1996)

The most attracting fact about the correctional structure in this day and age is that, even though criminal rehabilitation is presumed to be its primary purpose, the custody of inmate is a task that is considered to be major

In the United States alone, there is well over one million inmates that are being “corrected” in the criminal justice system. Two-thirds of these criminals are either on probation or parole and one-third is in city or county jails or in prison serving their sentences. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014)

Prisons as well as jails is where about four-fifths of money that is correctional is spent and where nine-tenths of correctional employees are employed. There are fewer than one-fifth of those who work in state prisons as well we city or county jails who are not in any way have that basic or fundamental characteristics that are either administrative nor custodial. (Criminal Law, 2002)

The criminal justice system in this country is underfinanced, undermanned, overworked, overcrowded, and not to mention misunderstood. It...